Died in jail or a lockup
Harry Owen
Harry Owen was held in the jail in Texarkana, Arkansas, when a mob of about 4,000 people took him from it on Friday night, May 26, 1922. According to The Chicago Whip, the mob burned him to death while a crowd watched. Afterward, hundreds of men went through the town and fired shots. The Whip reported his death in a weekly roundup of mob killings and treated it as a lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.