Charley Smith
Charley Smith was a Black man held in custody by guards near St. Charles, Arkansas, in March 1904, during racial violence that had left several people dead in the area. Newspaper reports from the following days said that a crowd took five men, Smith among them, from the guards and shot them to death, and dated the killings to March 24, 1904. A dispatch from DeWitt, Arkansas, printed in the Indianapolis Journal, gave the same account. Smith's family, if they have spoken publicly, are not quoted in these reports.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Accounts in a 1904 Arkansas Gazette dispatch and Indianapolis Journal dispatch say a crowd took Charley Smith and four other men from guards at St. Charles and shot them to death.
Reported by: The Arkansas Gazette (reporters); The Indianapolis Journal (reporters).