Died in custody
Charley Branch
Charley Branch, a Black man, was in the custody of guards at a station near Homer. According to a Little Rock dispatch printed in the Dallas Weekly Herald, an armed mob took him from those guards late on Tuesday night, December 26, 1882, and hanged him from a telegraph pole. The account reports his death as a lynching carried out by the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: a Little Rock dispatch (reporters).