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Constable James Murray was lynched and shot to death after being attacked by a mob in Bonanza, Arkansas.
He had gone to Bonanza from his home in Jenny Lind to serve a warrant on a miner at the Bonanza mine. He had arrested the man and was leaving town when a mob of the miner's friends attacked him. They lynched him to a tree using a rope, tied his hands behind his back, and shot him approximately 12 times.
His body was found the next morning along the road approximately 30 yards from the mine's entrance.
The man whom he had originally arrested and was charged with murder.
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Constable Murray served with the Rogers Township Constable's Office.
Thank you for your service to the Jenny Lind community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Constable James Murray is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In AR, 249 of 372 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 66.9% of this state's fallen. That is 66.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
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