George Roper
George Roper, also called Frank Hubbee in one account, was held in the jail at Columbia, Tennessee. On November 27, 1877, a mob took him from the jail, and the Nashville American said jailer Davis resisted and the crowd took the keys and broke the front door, while a New York Herald correspondent wrote that the jailer gave him up. Accounts agree that the sheriff and armed guards took him out the next morning, that a crowd seized him from the guards on the way back to the jail, and that he was hanged in the public square while officials asked the crowd not to mutilate his body. The reports differ on where he was hanged, with one placing it at the courthouse before a crowd the paper put at two thousand.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took George Roper, also called Frank Hubbee, from the Columbia, Tennessee jail and hanged him at the courthouse on November 27, 1877, after the jailer resisted and the mob took the keys and broke the front door.
Reported by: Nashville American special correspondent (reporters).