Posted on: Jackson Co. Ar Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/Jackson/188 Surname: unknown ------------------------- Does anyone know of a hanging of a black man. He was hung for killing a policeman. When they first hanged him, he held his weight up with his hands...they took him down and slit his wrists, the rehung him. 1914.