Complex sentence: Tillman sent the state solicitor to Edgefield to investigate the matter, and ridiculed the coroner's jury verdict, that, as usual in cases of lynching, stated the deceased had been killed by persons unknown.
Split into simpler sentences: Tillman sent the state solicitor to Edgefield to investigate the matter, and ridiculed the coroner's jury verdict. As usual in cases of lynching, it stated the deceased had been killed by persons unknown.