Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In January 1871, about fifty disguised, armed men came into a South Carolina town late on a Wednesday night and demanded the jail keys from the sheriff, who refused. They arrested the sheriff, broke into the jail with axes and other weapons, and took out five people who had been held there. Early the next morning, two of them were found dead about a mile from town, and the paper reports that the other three were later found alive but badly wounded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.