Died in custody
Name not reported
A person being brought in by officers in Chickasaw County was reportedly taken from them by a vigilante group and hanged, according to a dispatch from Smith, Arkansas, published in the Rock Island Daily Argus in December 1886. The dispatch attributed the account to rumor it described as coming from good authority. The person's name is garbled in the newspaper's text, and the date of the death is not given.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Smith, Ark. dispatch, citing rumor on good authority, says a vigilante group took one of the men being brought in by officers and hanged him.
Reported by: Smith, Ark. dispatch (reporters).