Ted Smith Remaining photo- history postcards read, " The Burning of the Negro Smith". Eighteen year old Ted Smith was accused of assaulting a white woman, Viola Delancey. The case never got to court nor were charges formally introduced. The young man was slowly roasted alive on the town streets while the mob tended the fire throughout the day. The chief of police stated that, "Special occasions occur where the people take the law into their own hands and pass judgment and punish accordingly."
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