The Ouachita Telegraph - Reeves Smith Lynched

Date: Oct 2000 
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>


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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, October 23, 1886
Page 2, Column 4

DESOTO.
 Reeves Smith, a negro fiend who attempted to outrage a respectable white
lady near Mansfield on the 6th inst., was taken from the parish jail and
hung last Monday night.

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