December 21, 1891

A mob of masked men entered the jail in DeWitt (Arkansas County) and shot three men: Floyd McGregory (sometimes written as Gregory) and his father-in-law, J. A. Smith (who were both white), as well as Mose Henderson (who was African American). The three men had been put in jail for plotting to kill Smith’s wife, who had divorced him and received one-third of his property in the settlement. The Deseret Evening News of Salt Lake City, Utah, having received a telegram about the incident, decried this lack of outrage: “The miscreants deserved their fate, but that makes no excuse for the assassins who took the law into their own hands, thus striking one more blow for anarchy.”