People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — Negro May Be Lynched. [ARTICLE]

Negro May Be Lynched.

Oklahoma, Ok., Aug. 1. —Monday night Mrs. S. J. Smithell, aged 42 years, wife of a farmer living sixteen miles west of this city, was assaulted and murdered during the absence of her husband. Her body was found in a pasture near the house and bruises showed that she made a desperate fight for her life and honor. A negro named Watkins has been arrested on suspicion. The evidence is against him and it is thought he will be lynched.