Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black people held at a Louisiana jail were taken from it on the night of December 28, 1879, by a mob of about fifty men, according to a brief wire report. The report says the mob shot each of them to death. The Keowee Courier printed the report on January 8, 1880.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief wire report in the Keowee Courier says a mob of about fifty men took the people from a Louisiana jail and shot them to death.
Reported by: wire report in the Keowee Courier (reporters).