B. A. Scroggin1

M, #47355, (1875 - c 1934)
  • Reference: [47355:0]

Vitals

  • Birth*: Bet. Apr 1875 and Apr 1875.2
  • Death*: Ca. Apr 1934, Tucker Prison Farm, AR, Killed while escaping from prison.3

Notes

  • Name Variation: B. A. Scroggins.3
  • Name Variation: D. A. Scroggins.2
  • Last Edited: 28 Oct 2008

Citations

  1. [S2155] Batesville Daily Guard
         , News of Other Days, 73 years ago, 5 Apr 1994, "Special attention will be focused on the trials of Eric V. Hoyt, charged with false pretenses, and B.A. Scroggin, charged with mistreatment of his children."
    News of Other Days, 73 years ago, 7 Apr 1994, "A statewide search is being conducted by officers today for four prisoners who escaped from the county jail here last night or early this morning by sawing three bars from an east window. . . . B.A. Scroggin of the Hutchinson Mountain Community also escaped . . ."
    News of Other Days, 73 years ago, 8 Apr 1994, "B.A. Scroggin, one of those who escaped from the county jail early Saturday morning, is back in custody and will face the grand jury in the opening day of Circuit Court this morning. Scroggin was captured by Sheriff Jake Engles and deputy W.E. Wheeler in the mountains 20 miles west of Batesville. Scroggin was located in a deep ravine and was taken into custody without resistance. None of the other men who escaped with Scroggin has been apprehended."
  2. [S2155] Batesville Daily Guard
         , News of Other Days, 73 years ago, 20 Apr 1994, 10 Apr 2007
    D.A. Scroggins, 58, must serve the rest of his life behind prison bars for the slaying of an infant born to his daughter. That was the verdict returned late last night by the jury in Independence County Circuit Court. The courtroom was packed throughout the day yesterday. The defendant received the verdict calmly and without emotion.
    — Guard, April 12, 1934.
  3. [S2155] Batesville Daily Guard
         , http://www.guardonline.com/?q=node/39289"">News of Other Days, 73 years ago, 6 May 1994
    B.A. Scroggins, 55, who was recently sentenced to the Arkansas penitentiary for life by Judge Marcus Bone after a jury found him guilty of murder, was shot to death Saturday night after trying to escape from Tucker prison farm. Testimony was offered by another prisoner in the farm hospital where Scroggins was being held for a case of mumps that Scroggins ripped off the screen from a door and unbolted the door.

    He was chased by a trusty guard, Lawrence Baker, who threatened to shoot if he did not stop. Scroggins turned and attacked Baker with a knife and the trusty guard shot him. The killing occurred about midnight.

    During the trial here Scroggins told his attorney, W.M. Thompson, that he would rather die in the electric chair than spend six months in the penitentiary. He had been in the state prison only two weeks. . . .
    — Guard, April 30, 1934.