Name not reported
According to a Los Angeles story reprinted in the Weekly Courier-Journal in April 1890, the father of Thomas Hooper of Conway County, Arkansas, was taken from the county jail by a group of men and killed shortly after the Civil War, during Governor Powell Clayton's administration. Accounts in the article differ on whether he was lynched or shot. Governor Engle's inquiry was still investigating the account at the time it was reported, and the claim that a mob took him from the jail has not been confirmed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). Governor Engle's inquiry, as reported, says the man was taken from jail by a group of men and killed, though accounts differ on whether he was lynched or shot.
Reported by: Governor Engle's inquiry.