Will Jackson
Willis Jackson was held in the custody of officers near Honea Path, South Carolina, when a mob took him and killed him on October 10, 1911. According to a telephone dispatch received at Greenville, officers had rushed him from Anderson by automobile to escape about ten cars of men intent on lynching him, reached town ten minutes ahead of the mob, and transferred him to another vehicle. He was hanged from a telegraph pole, and his body was riddled with bullets. A separate Associated Press report says a posse took him from the Greenville sheriff on the evening of October 10 and hanged him at the scene of an alleged crime, but it does not say whether the sheriff resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. According to a telephone dispatch and the Associated Press, a mob took Willis Jackson from officers, hanged him from a telegraph pole and shot his body.
Reported by: telephone message received at Greenville, S.C. (reporters); Associated Press, citing a telephone message from Honea Path (reporters); newspaper report of the Anderson jail mob (reporters).