Lynching Notices from the Arkansas Gazette
Contributed by Jann

Arkansas Gazette April 21, 1895, Pine Bluff, April 20 - On next Tuesday, the 23rd, William Owen, colored, will "stretch hemp" at Varner. On April 23, 1894, Owens most brutally killed his wife with a hoe, while they were at work on a plantation, near Nobles Lake. It is for this crime that he will hang.

On Friday the 26th, Anthony Johnson, better known to old residents of Pine Bluff, as "Andy" Johnson,, will shuffle off this mortal coil, by the rope route, at Dumas, Ark. The crime for which Andy will pay the death penalty is for the killing of a negro pal, Howard Johnson, in this city, during last April. The two had had a difficulity, so "Andy, "to get even," went to Howard's home one dark night, called him to the door, and as soon as he appeared, shot him through the heart. Andy then disappeared, and when found, he had "turned preacher" and was conducting a religious meeting in Waco, Tex. He was brought to this city, had a trial, was found and sentenced to hang. Andy was a desperado and was universally feared by his race.