Historical Marker
Charles "Leather Bitches" Smith
Merryville, Beauregard County · Louisiana
Deputies tracked him to an abandoned sawmill near Merryville and found him asleep beneath a log car. On September 25, 1912, less than three months after Grabow, they ordered him to surrender and shot him when he reached for a gun. His body was carried into town, propped upright with his guns wired to it, and photographed with the deputies and onlookers. Who he really was never got settled: Smith was probably an alias, and rumor tied him to murder warrants in West Texas. Which side of the timber war he stood on was never in doubt.
Where it stands
30.75482, -93.54207 · Directions
More markers nearby
- Sam Houston Jones — steps away
- Leather Britches — steps away
- The Atakapa-Coushatta Trace — 0.3 mi
- Site of the Coushatta Indian Village — 0.4 mi