Garfield Burley and Curtis Brown
October 8, 1902

Newspaper accounts read: "Garfield Burley and Curtis Brown, Negroes, were lynched here tonight by a mob of 500 persons." A posse captured Burley in Huffman, Arkansas where he confessed to the murder and named Curtis Brown as an accomplice. The murder occurred after a dispute over traded horses. When the victim D. Fiatt a farmer, refused to go back on the deal he was shot down by Burley. Both men were jailed but a mob demanded the prisoners to be turned over to them. The criminal judge pleaded to let the law deal with the defendants to no avail. The mob took the prisoners to Newbern and they were immediately strung face to face and hung from a telephone pole.