New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-29
A Bloody Deed in lssaQuena.

Accounts of terrible tragedy which oc-
Cured at ChOtard landing, in 1ssaquena
county, two miles above Brunswicks
point, on Monday afternoon. reached this
city Yesterday. 1t seems that the wife Of
DIR. II j. Holmes, who keeps store and
conducts a farm at Chotard landing, has
been very i'll for some time, and not ex-
pected to live last Sunday. and her hus-
band sent to Duncanby's landing for DR..
Parish to consult and see what assistance
could be rendered the lingering lady. DR..
Parish came, but DIR. Holmes and himsel
did not agree about her treatment, nor o
to her condition, which provoked rupture.
and at One time it was feared DR.. Holmes
would shoot Dr. Parish, who returned
home. Mrs. Holmes then sent after her
brother, Mr.. Isaac P. Strong, who was
farming few miles distant Upon his
arrival, Mrs. Holmes stated to him she had
no hope of recovery, and wished him to go
after Squire Bryant, as she desired to make
her will before dying. This incensed her
husband, DR.. Holmes, very much, who had
had quarrel with Mr.. Strong about three
months ago, and attempted to shoot Strong,
but was prevented by Strong g's activity in
taking the pistol from his brother in law
Mr.. Strong yielded to his sisters request,
and went after Esquire Bryant, returning
with him early in the afternoon. They en-
tered the bedroom, followed by the hus-
band Dr. Holmes, and proceeded to pre-
pare the will, as Mrs. Holmes dictated. The
work finished, the three men walked out
when DR.. Holmes said to Mr.. Strong: II
understand you called me liar; are you
ready" and commenced firing, the first shot
entering the side of Strong's hip and pass
ing entirely through it. Strong wheeled
and commenced firing, both discharging
five barrels each, and DR.. Holmes falling
heavily, pierced by two balls, one entering
the side and the other piercing the heart
He died Immediately. While the firing was
going on. the doctors brother, General
Thomas j. Holmes. of Jackson, rushed to
the scene with pistol, but was prevented
from using it bv one of the lady members
of the family. Esquire Bryant, the colored
magistrate, who witnessed the terrible trag-
edy, summoned jury of inquest. who re
turned a verdict of justifable homicide.
Mr.. Strong was not arrested. A large
knife was also found upon DR.. Holmes whom
dead, in addition to the pistol. The effect
of this terrible deed upon the sinking wife.
whose quivering heart was shocked by
every shot she heard, may be imagined but
not described. DIR. Henry was sent for to
this city, and went up with all possible
haste. Mr.. Milborne Bean came down in o
skitf after coffin for DR.. Holiness which he
took with him on the City of Vicksburg last
evening. While here he also telegraphed
DR.. Holmes, of Savannah, con of the de
ceased, of the melancholy occurrence that
he might communicate it to the other
children residing there.
The deceased was about sixty years of
age, with his children all grown. From
what we could gather tho deceased charged
Strong with conspiring against him through
Mrs. Holmes, Strongs sister, and this the
latter most positively denied, denOuncing
DR.. Holmes as liar for SO asserting We
give the statement as accurately as we
could ascertain it, but there may yet be still
further developments concerning this hor-
rble affair. which has filled two houses
with despair, and may hasten the fiji ght of q
lingering wife after the husband who takes
his place beneath the sod to-day Ticks
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