Name not reported
Around midnight on a Wednesday in January 1871, about fifty disguised, armed men entered Abbeville, South Carolina, seized the sheriff and demanded the jail keys, according to the Abbeville Press and Banner. The men broke into the jail and took five people held there out of their cells. The next morning, the paper reported, two of the men who had been taken were found dead about a mile from town. The Press and Banner condemned the killings and urged those responsible to stop.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Abbeville Press and Banner reported that about fifty disguised, armed men seized the sheriff, took the jail keys, broke into the jail and took out five prisoners, two of whom were later found dead about a mile from town.
Reported by: The Abbeville Press and Banner (reporters).