Obituary - Isaac Green

The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, July 30, 1880
Page 2, Column 5

FRANKLIN.

On Sunday morning last, the body of Isaac green, colored, who had been put I jail Saturday morning, charged with entering the sleeping department of Miss Elvira Moore in the night time, was found, by the citizens of Winnsborugh, suspended to a tree about 200 yards from the jail. In the absence of the Coroner, Justice Burn summoned a jury, who, after viewing the body, took it down and placed it in charge of friends of deceased by whom it was buried that evening.

On Monday morning the inquest was held. Several persons were examine, but no clue whatever was found as to who committed the hanging. There were two other colored men confined in the jail at the time Green was taken out, who testified that about 12 o’clock Saturday night a mob of some 15 or 20 men came to the jail. Three of the party came up the steps, broke open the door and took Green out and secured the door on the prisoners inside.

After spending all day in examining witnesses, without eliciting anything further than the above, the Coroner’s jury rendered as their verdict that Isaac Green came to his death, on Saturday, July 17th, 1880, by being hanged by a mob of persons unknown to the jury. There are crimes of such a nature that the friends of the injured party seldom wait for the tardy application of justice, and of such appears to have been that attempted by Green, yet we cannot but regret that the law was not allowed to have taken its course. - Franklin Sun.

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Contributed 2021 Sep 27 by Lora Peppers loradpeppers@hotmail.com

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