Died in custody
Name not reported
A man held in South Carolina custody in connection with the Abbeville County violence died after taking laudanum, according to a coroner's inquest jury. The prisoners had been moved from Abbeville to Anderson and then to Walhalla, in Oconee County, as a precaution against violence. The account gives no name for him and does not say where or when he died.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. A coroner's inquest jury found he died after taking laudanum.
Reported by: coroner's inquest jury (court).