Henry Allen
Henry Allen was held in the jail at Brinkley or Cotton Plant, Arkansas, in January 1893, when a mob of about 200 people took him from the jail, hanged him from a tree and shot him, according to several newspaper reports. Some accounts say he was taken on the night of January 10 together with Paul Scruggs, while the Brinkley dispatch gives January 11 or 12.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Henry Allen from the jail at Brinkley or Cotton Plant, Arkansas, in January 1893 and hanged him, and the accounts say the mob also shot him; no official or family account is given and none say whether jail officers resisted or handed him over.
Reported by: news reports carrying dispatches from Brinkley and Cotton Plant, Arkansas (reporters); Record-Union news dispatch (reporters); Waterbury Evening Democrat news roundup (reporters); United Press dispatch, Danville, Ark. (reporters); Ohio Democrat, citing Arkansas report (reporters); Evening Capital Journal report (reporters).
Sources (16)
- Evening Journal, January 11, 1893, page 1
- Evening Capital Journal, January 11, 1893, page 2
- The Evening Bulletin, January 12, 1893, page 1
- Los Angeles Herald, January 12, 1893, page 5
- The Record-Union, January 12, 1893, page 8
- Waterbury Evening Democrat, January 12, 1893, page 3
- The Helena Independent, January 12, 1893, page 2
- The Providence News, January 12, 1893, page 7
- The Salt Lake Herald, January 12, 1893, page 1
- Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, January 13, 1893, page 2
- The Record-Union, January 13, 1893, page 1
- Passaic City Record, January 14, 1893, page 4
- The Oskaloosa Herald, January 19, 1893, page 5
- The State Rights Democrat, January 20, 1893, page 4
- The Ohio Democrat, January 21, 1893, page 2
- The Abbeville Press And Banner, January 25, 1893, page 2