Hullen Owens
Hullen Owens, a Black man, was held in the Miller County jail in Texarkana, Arkansas, when a mob of about a hundred people came for him on the night of May 19, 1922. According to the Bisbee Daily Review, the mob broke down the jail door, took him from his cell, and dragged him about eight blocks at the end of a rope until he died of strangulation. The Richmond Planet said the jail doors were the only resistance the mob met. The Bisbee Daily Review also reported that the mob twice tried to hang his body from a telephone pole before lowering it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob broke into the Miller County jail in Texarkana, Arkansas, took Owens from his cell and dragged him at the end of a rope until he died, according to the Texarkana and Bisbee newspaper accounts.
Reported by: news reports.