Died in custody
Name not reported
A dispatch from Smith, Arkansas, printed in the Rock Island Daily Argus in December 1886, reported that a man being brought in by officers in Chickasaw County was taken from them by a mob and hanged. The dispatch based this account on rumor, which it said came from good authority. The man was in the custody of the officers when the mob seized him, and the account gives no other details of his life or death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch from Smith, Arkansas, 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, citing rumor on good authority (reporters).