Died in jail or a lockup
J. G. Smith
J. G. Smith, a Black physician, was being held in the jail at Bishop, in Nueces County, Texas, when the death occurred in February 1923. A mob took Smith from the jail and killed them, and the body was partly burned afterward. Smith is remembered in the Richmond Planet's report as a physician, a profession that the account names as part of who they were.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched