Smith Tooley
Smith Tooley was held in the Vicksburg jail in Mississippi when a mob took him from his cell on the night of July 6, 1892, and hanged him in the courthouse yard. According to a Times-Democrat dispatch, the Warren Light Artillery declined to defend the jail, and the crowd met no resistance. Another account says a brother of a man named in the report pleaded with the crowd to stop and was ignored. Reports differ on the size of the crowd, putting it at about 100 or about 700 men.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Smith Tooley from his cell in the Vicksburg jail and hanged him in the courthouse yard; the Warren Light Artillery declined to defend the jail.
Reported by: Times-Democrat special dispatch from Vicksburg (reporters); The Times (newspaper account) (reporters); Mississippi Leader, reprinting a Vicksburg paper (reporters).