Name not reported
In August 1871, a vigilance committee took several men out of the Union jail in Union, South Carolina, by force and killed them, according to a Yorkville Enquirer account that defended the action. The paper said the committee acted after a writ of habeas corpus arrived from Columbia, which the committee believed was meant to free the men. A Radical statement the paper cited alleged that ten men were taken from the jail. One man was released after a white man vouched for him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Yorkville Enquirer reports, while defending it, that a vigilance committee took the men from the Union jail and killed them, and a Radical statement cited by the paper alleged that ten men were taken.
Reported by: Yorkville Enquirer (reporters); Radical statement cited by the Yorkville Enquirer.