Died in jail or a lockup
Sandy Smith
Sandy Smith was held by guards when a mob took him and three other Black men from them on the night of Monday, November 29, 1886. According to a Fort Worth, Texas news dispatch printed in the Rock Island Daily Argus, the mob hanged the four men from trees near the Red River in the Choctaw Nation. The account describes these killings as lynchings carried out by the mob after it seized them from the guards.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Fort Worth, Texas news dispatch says a mob took Sandy Smith from the guards holding him and hanged him near the Red River.
Reported by: Fort Worth, Tex. news dispatch (reporters).