Died in jail or a lockup
Henry Allen
Henry Allen, a Black man, was held in the jail at Brinkley, Arkansas, in January 1893. According to a news report published the next day, a mob of about 200 people, many of them Black, took him from the jail, carried him to another location, hanged him from a tree and shot his body. The mob's action is described as a lynching from custody, and the report's account of the jail's response is the only detail offered about how the mob gained him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news report says a mob of about 200 took Henry Allen from the Brinkley, Arkansas jail, hanged him from a tree and shot his body.
Reported by: news report.