Source: He served as Secretary of State of Arkansas for three terms, from 1879 to 1885.(source: Allsopp pp 571-572) Frolich was the Grand Giant of the Ku Klux Klan for White County.(source: Trelease)
ALT1: ... that newspaper publisher Jacob Frolich built trap doors and hiding places in his house in case it was raided by Radical Republicans? Source: He purchased Curran Hall in Little Rock. He was under scrutiny from the Radical Republican government and Frolich set up trap doors and hiding places in the building in case it was raided.(source: Library of Congress)
ALT2: ... that Jacob Frolich, the Secretary of State of Arkansas from 1879 to 1885, fled to Canada to avoid arrest for murder? Source: A warrant with no bail was issued for the arrest of Frolich, Dandridge and several other men involved in the murder. Frolich fled to Canada and worked as a printer in Windsor, Ontario (source: Allsopp page 477)