Died in jail or a lockup
Mullen Owens
Mullen Owens was held in the Miller County jail in Texarkana, Arkansas, in May 1922, when a mob battered down the jail doors, took him out and dragged him at the end of a rope until he died. The Richmond Planet reported that the mob then burned his body in a downtown section of the city. According to the paper, the jail doors were the only resistance the mob met. The article's account of the events before he was jailed is not repeated here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.