Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five Black people, three men and two women, were held in the Newberry jail in August 1916 when a mob of about 200 men broke in and took them from the building, according to news dispatches. The mob carried them about a mile from town and hanged all five together from a large oak tree. The dispatches do not give their names. The dispatches do not say how the jail's staff responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. News dispatches report that a mob of about 200 men took five people from the Newberry jail and hanged them from an oak tree about a mile from town.
Reported by: news dispatches.