Frank Dodd
Frank Dodd was a Black man held in the county jail at Dewitt, Arkansas. In the early hours of August 9, 1916, a mob came to the town in automobiles, overpowered the jailer and forced him to surrender the keys. The men took Frank Dodd from the jail to Stuttgart, hanged him from a tree and riddled his body with bullets, and it was left hanging until local officers cut it down the next morning. One report put the mob at about twenty men in six cars, while a later account gave the number as about three hundred.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Frank Dodd from the Dewitt, Arkansas, county jail and hanged him from a tree near Stuttgart, with his body riddled with bullets; one account says the jailer was overpowered and forced to surrender the keys.
Reported by: Little River News (reporters); Associated Press (reporters).