D.N. Lee Hanged, Franklin Parish, 

Submitted by: Gene O’Quinn

Jan. 2004



Source: The Ouachita Telegraph

Saturday, December 2, 1882

Page 3, Column 2



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MOB LAW IN FRANKLIN PARISH.



D.N. Lee Found Hanged.



 On Saturday night between 10 and 11 o’clock D.N. Lee left F.N. Abell’s

store for his home.  He was accompanied by his brother John Lee, and Purvis

Roberts. Roberts left the two Lees upon reaching the road leading to his

home.  John Lee lives about a mile this side of deceased and upon reaching

the House invited his brother to alight.  The invitation Dave refused and

proceeded on his way home.  This was the last ever seen of Dave Lee alive.

On Sunday afternoon his horse came home with the bridle over the pommel of

the saddle.  The neighbors were sent for and a search instituted for the

missing man.  On Monday morning his body was found hanged to a tree about 

¾ mile from his residence on the Brake road, distant about 4 or 5 miles from

Holly Grove Church.  In the dead man’s pocket was found a card upon which

was written:  “Lee is dead, hog meat killed him; boys, go slow on hogs.”

 

The body was cut down and carried to the house and Esquire Dobyn sent for.

He summoned a Jury, and they returned a verdict to the effect “that D.N. Lee

came to his death on the 1882, by hanging perpetrated by unknown parties.”

 

Great indignation prevails in the Holly Grove neighborhood and the parish

generally at the dastardly deed.  Deceased was a young man born and raised

in the parish.  He leaves a wife and child to deplore his untimely end.

What Lee’s standing in the community was, we are unable to say, but the

evidence of the neighbors who went to his house to sit up with the corpse

conclusively proves that there was not a pound of meat of any kind on the

premises, food for the guests being provided by a friend of the family.



 P.S. – A posse of men under the sheriff left town at 9 this morning to

arrest certain parties supposed to be implicated in the hanging. – Franklin

Sun.