Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1901 — Victim’s Father Saves Negro. [ARTICLE]

Victim’s Father Saves Negro.

The life of Louis Smith, the negro whom a mob threatened to lynch at Fort Smith, Ark., was saved by the father of Lucy Watson, the child assaulted by Smith. When the mob was preparing to attack the jail a leader was sought, and Watson was asked to head the lynchers. He advised that the law be allowed to take its course. This caused the mob to abandon its intention, and the negro was removed from the jail to Little Rock. Tuesday night the crowd reassembled and surrounded the jail for hours, threatening attack and refusing to believe that the prisoner had been removed.