Monroe Franklin
Monroe Franklin, a Black man, was held in the Pope County jail in Russellville, Arkansas. The Sentinel-Record reports that on the night of August 19, 1912, a mob of about two hundred people overpowered the sheriff and a deputy constable, broke down the jail door, and took him to a telephone pole, where he was hanged. The Brandon News and the Oxford Eagle likewise report that a mob of white citizens took him from the jail and hanged him from a pole in the courthouse yard. No one has been named in these accounts as responsible for his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about two hundred people took Monroe Franklin from the Pope County jail and hanged him from a telephone pole, according to a newspaper dispatch that reports no shots were fired.
Reported by: newspaper report (Fort Smith, Ark., dispatch) (reporters).