James P. Holland

James P. Holland was taken from the Dardanelle jail in Yell County, Arkansas, on the morning of November 28, 1881, and hanged by a mob, according to the Huntsville Gazette and the Grenada Sentinel. Neither account says who he was. The Gazette describes his death as the third lynching in Yell County within a year, but the accounts do not record how the mob got into the jail or whether jail staff resisted or gave him up.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: Huntsville Gazette (reporters).

News reports (2)

• Huntsville Gazette, December 3, 1881, page 1 Huntsville Gazette, December 3, 1881
• The Grenada Sentinel, December 3, 1881, page 2 The Grenada Sentinel, December 3, 1881