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Arrest and lynching[edit] On February 15, a Greenville cab driver named Thomas Watson Brown was robbed and stabbed to death in Pickens County. Based on circumstantial evidence, Earle was charged in Brown's attack, and was arrested at his mother's house the next day and taken to the county jail. On the evening of February 16, a convoy of taxi drivers drove to the jail and forcibly procured Earle's release.