Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In November 1891, a man identified only as Smith, a former resident of the parish, was held in the parish jail in Louisiana. According to a telegram printed in the Richmond Dispatch, a group of men took him from the jail and drove him about three miles east of town. They hanged him from a tree, alongside a man named W. S. Felton. The report gives no first name for Smith, and other details of what happened are unclear.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A telegram to the Richmond Dispatch reports that a group of men took a man named Smith from the parish jail and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Richmond Dispatch (reporters).