Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man named Smith, whose full name is garbled in the scanned 1922 newspaper text, was taken from jail near Morrillton, Arkansas, by a mob and killed. The Bossier Banner reported the lynching in December 1922. The paper said he was held after a deputy sheriff was shot the previous Saturday night, and that the deputy was probably fatally wounded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.