Frank Brown
Frank Brown, a Black man, was held in the Conway jail in Arkansas in September 1905. According to a dispatch to the Arkansas Gazette, a mob entered the jail without difficulty late on the night of September 22, took him to the edge of town, and hanged him in front of a house. Sheriff Harrell, who was in Little Rock at the time, later said he believed the wrong man had been lynched.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). A mob took Frank Brown from the Conway, Arkansas jail and hanged him, and Sheriff Harrell said the mob lynched the wrong man, while the Tunica, Mississippi account describes a masked mob of sixty to one hundred men breaking into the jail and hanging him near it.
Reported by: Arkansas Gazette special dispatch from Conway (reporters); Sheriff Harrell (the agency that held him); Post-Dispatch special report from Memphis (reporters); Associated Press (reporters); Keowee Courier (reporters).
Sources (21)
- The Evening World, September 14, 1900, page 5
- The Savannah Morning News, September 15, 1900, page 1
- The Montgomery Advertiser, September 23, 1905, page 9
- The Birmingham Age-Herald, September 23, 1905, page 1
- The Waxahachie Daily Light, September 23, 1905, page 1
- San Antonio Daily Light, September 23, 1905, page 5
- The Paducah Sun, September 23, 1905, page 1
- The Paducah Sun, September 23, 1905, page 2
- Los Angeles Herald, September 23, 1905, page 1
- The Cairo Bulletin, September 23, 1905, page 5
- The Topeka State Journal, September 23, 1905, page 1
- The Providence News, September 23, 1905, page 1
- The Salt Lake Tribune, September 23, 1905, page 10
- Daily Press, September 24, 1905, page 1
- Waterbury Evening Democrat, September 25, 1905, page 7
- Owingsville Outlook, September 28, 1905, page 3
- The Newark Journal, September 29, 1905, page 7
- The Forrest City Times, September 29, 1905, page 1
- The Berne Witness, September 29, 1905, page 2
- Seward Gateway, September 30, 1905, page 4
- Keowee Courier, October 4, 1905, page 6