Harry Johoson
Harry Johoson, a Black man, was held in the jail at Princeton, Dallas County, Arkansas. According to Colonel B. H. Cooksage, as reported in a Little Rock dispatch, about thirty masked men came to the jail on the night of September 25, 1887. The account says they put the sheriff and other prominent citizens under guard, then broke into the jail and took Johoson. The men hanged him, and the report describes his death as the work of a mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. Colonel B. H. Cooksage, as reported in a Little Rock dispatch, said a group of about thirty masked men took Harry Johoson from the Princeton jail in Dallas County, Arkansas, and hanged him.
Reported by: Colonel B. H. Cooksage; Little Rock dispatch (reporters).