Dick Smith
Dick Smith was a Black man held in the Amite City jail in Louisiana, one of six men held there in late December 1879. According to the New Orleans Times, as reprinted in The Comet, a mob of about fifty men obtained the jail keys from the sheriff, took the prisoners about half a mile from town, and hanged four of them. The bodies were reported found close together and riddled with bullets. The account comes from that newspaper report, and it does not say who Smith was or what his family remembered about him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took the prisoners from the Amite City jail after the sheriff gave up the keys, and hanged Dick Smith and three others, according to the New Orleans Times as reprinted in The Comet.
Reported by: New Orleans Times, as reprinted in The Comet (reporters).