Thornton
Flannagan Thornton, a Black man, was held in the jail at Morrilton, Arkansas. In April 1893, about 11 o'clock at night, a group of masked men took him from the jail and killed him. A Daily Public Ledger report said he was hanged from a tree and his body riddled with bullets. Thornton was a man held at the jail when the mob took him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A group of masked men took Thornton from the Morrilton, Arkansas, jail about 11 p.m. and lynched him; the article does not say whether jail staff resisted or gave up the keys.
Reported by: Morrilton jail account in a 1893 newspaper report (reporters); a Kentucky newspaper item on the lynching (reporters); a 1893 Arkansas newspaper report of about twenty-five masked men breaking open the Merrilton jail (reporters).