Bob Hawkins
Bob Hawkins was being held at the Franklin jail when a mob of roughly 200 to 250 men came to the jail in the early hours of February 5, 1885. Two accounts published the next day report that the jailer refused to give up the keys, and that the mob broke into the jail with sledgehammers. The mob then took Mr. Hawkins from the jail and hanged him. The reports are brief and the details come from single dispatches, with no further account of the people involved.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about 200 to 250 men broke into the Franklin jail, took Bob Hawkins from custody and hanged him, after the jailer refused to hand over the keys.
Reported by: news dispatch (Fort Worth Daily Gazette special dispatch) (reporters).