Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Several men held in a jail were taken out by a mob and lynched from a telegraph pole, according to a brief report in The Abbeville Press And Banner in March 1896. The mob seized them soon after an earlier crime. The report gives no names and no place, and it does not say how the mob got in or whether the jailers resisted or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.