Waldrop
Waldrop was a man being held by deputy sheriffs in South Carolina. According to a recollection printed in The Watchman And Southron in 1904, he was killed in 1887 or 1888, after the deputies set out with him for the jail at night and were stopped by a large, angry group. The group took him into the woods, and a man who later lived in Columbia said he helped search for and find the body the next morning.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1904 newspaper recollection says a large, angry group stopped deputy sheriffs carrying Waldrop to the jail at night, took him into the woods and killed him.
Reported by: deputy sheriffs holding him (as recounted in a 1904 newspaper) (the agency that held him); a man who later lived in Columbia, as recounted in a 1904 newspaper (witnesses); 1904 newspaper recollection (reporters).