Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Eight Black people held in the jail at Barnwell Court House were taken out and lynched, according to telegraph reports quoted in a January 1890 editorial in the Baptist Courier. The editor condemned the killings and said some of those taken may have been innocent.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Baptist Courier, citing telegraph reports, says a mob took eight people held in the Barnwell Court House jail and lynched them.
Reported by: Baptist Courier (reporters).