Died in custody
Name not reported
A dispatch from Smith, Arkansas, printed in the Rock Island Daily Argus on December 1, 1886, reported that a man being brought in by officers in Chickasaw County was taken from them by a vigilante group and hanged. The dispatch said this was rumor, though it came from what the writer called good authority. The man's name is not legible in the newspaper text, and no date for the killing is 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 from officers and hanged him.
Reported by: Smith, Ark. dispatch (reporters).