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Submitted: 5/17/19 • Approved: 8/9/24 • Last Updated: 8/12/24 • R1269545-G0-S3
1895 - September 2, 1921
HAMPTON, Sept. 6 - John Wagnon, deputy sheriff of Calhoun county, shot and killed Charley Broach Friday night at a school concert a few miles east of Hampton. Four shots were fired. The officer has since been exonerated, it has been learned here. According to testimony at the hearing given the officer, Broach and another man were engaged in a fight outside the building where the concert was held. Wagnon tried to separate them, when Broach, it was stated, started toward the officer with his hand in his shirt bosom as if to draw a weapon, and at the same time voicing a threat to kill him. Wagnon pulled his gun and warned Broach to stop. Broach continued to advance and Deputy Wagnon fired four times. Wagnon was brought up here Saturday and given a hearing before B. M. Biggers, justice of the peace. The testimony indicating the killing to be justifiable, he was exonerated. It was proved that Wagnon and Broach had had a former difficulty and that on several occasions Broach had threatened to kill Wagnon. Both men had been in the employ of the Rock Island railroad at the gravel pit near Tinsman. Broach was about 25 years old. (Arkansas Democrat - September 6, 1921)
Contributed on 5/17/19 by debbraszymanski
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