The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-03-16
DOUBLE HOMICIDE AT VIENNA!
Two LeadinE Citizens Killed.

son parish. They were closing n school
at Vienna, and were there on the 18th
for that purpose. DIR. Jackson Kept a
drug store in the place. We learn that
young man of the vicinity, on the
evening named, after becoming par
TALLY intoxicated, went to DR.. Jack
sons store, with Peace, and became UNI
pleasantly boisterous. He was told by
the Doctor to get out Of the house with
his noise, at which the intruder be-
came offended, and made some re-
mark, to which the Doctor replied.
Peace was present and spoke up, say
ing something to the Doctor which
caused him to ask Peace, edo you take
it up:'' The party had now reached
the front gallery, where, it appears,
Mr.. John 1Iuey, Jr., and Whatley,
Pcacc's partner, were at the time stand
ing. Some words, or demonstrations,
led Mr.. Huey to step forward in the di-
rcction of DR.. Jackson's back, and say,
"Fighting is tho game is it:' What
ley said, ono, but it's pistols" and at
once fired upon Itucy, discharging three
shots into his breast and abdomen, c.,us-
ing his death instantly. Peace simulta-
neously shot DR.. Jackson through
the left arm, the ball entering his side
and passing through his chest. One, or
tho other of the two men, then shot Mr..
Hcdgepcth, who came up, attracted by
the shooting, hitting him in the thighs,
n &c inf rfuf
wound. DR.. jackson, after being shot,
stepped back into his store, and reached
the back room, where he fell over on
a bed in the room, saying, as he fell,
81 am dead!"
a gentleman named Colvin tried to
arrest Whatley, and received several
severe blows in the face from Whatley's
empty repeater that compelled him to
! retire. Mr.. Eugene Howard fred at
the two as they ran off, but without
effect. They ran to the hotel, procured
fresh repeaters, saddled their horses,
mounted and left. \ short distance
fsom town they met a young man, and
compelled him to give up pistol he
had, and demanded his money, but he
had none.
They appeared in Vernon, l6 miles
distant from Vienna, about bedtime.
Peace had recently been married there
to Mrs. Hammond. He called for her
without dismounting from his horse,
spoke a few words with her, got a pair
of boots he had in the house, and left
in what direction is not known. He
and Whatley came to Vernon from
Natchitoches, and had been, we are
told, travelling previously in Texas,
where one of them killed man not
very long ago. J.
DIR. Jackson and Mr.. Huey were
| am ong the best citizens of their parish.
DR.. Jackson was II surgeon in the Con-
federate army, and had been practicing
medicine since the war. Mr.. Huey
was one of the first settlers of Vienna
and was we'll known as the only hotel
keeper in the place for many years.
He had, since the war, been giving his
attention entirely to farming. He was
q warm-hearted, frank and courteous
Both gentlemen leave families, to whom
| this deplor;,ble event brings an Attic
ton sore and grievous indeed. The
affair has east Il deep gloom over the
entire parish, and has justly incensed
its inhabitants to a high pitch against
the nurdercrs. n party set out from
Vienna in pursuit of the men; and
another, headed by Sheriff Huey, Il
cousin of the deceased Of that name and
who was raised by him and Was deeply
moved by the tragic death Of his bcnc-
factor, left Vernon soon after Peace and
Whatlcy left, pursuing the route tho
two men took. We anticipate bloody
work if the men meet, AS the pursucrs
and pursued arc we'll armed, and the
latter will fight for life, as we'll they
may, for if caught we learn that Louis
lana justice, as interpreted by courts
and jurics of late, will not bc invoked
in the case of these despcradocS.
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