Name not reported
An unidentified Black man was held at the Fort Smith jail in Sebastian County, Arkansas, after police arrested him following a shooting that wounded a deputy constable. On March 23, 1912, a mob of hundreds broke through the steel door, pried out a window, and entered the holdover cell where he was held. According to the Sentinel-Record, the mob beat him and then hanged him from an electric light pole on Garrison Avenue. The newspaper reported that the jailer had barely locked the doors and that a handful of officers stood by while the mob gathered, and no source in this account says whether they tried to stop it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1912 Sentinel-Record account says a mob broke into the Fort Smith jail, beat the man in his holdover cell and hanged him from an electric light pole.
Reported by: Sentinel-Record newspaper account (reporters).