The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-19
ANOTHER MURDER.
A COlOred Man Shot in the Head
and Killed by His Stepson.
Another Chapter in Our Bloody
Annals.

About quarter to O'clock on Saturday
morning diff Guilty took, place in room or
the second floor Of house at the corner Of
Cypress and Clara streets, between colored
man, named Monroe Quennira, and his step.
son, named Leander A. Strong, which result.
ed in the formers being shot in the head
with'a Dsrringer breach-loading pistol in the
hands Of the latter, and killed.
Mrs. Qlennira, the mother of the young
man, woke him up about 4:3O o'clock in the
morning, and told him to MAKE fire in the
kitchen and cook his breakfast, as he was
in the habit of doing SO every morning before
going to work. The young colored man, who
slept in the kitchen adjoining his parents
room on the second floor, the moment his
mother called him commenced to chop wood
to light up the fire. His stepfather was
awakened by the noise, and ordered him down
stairs to chop wood, as he wanted to sleep and
did not care about hearing SO much noise at
that hour in the morning.
Strong kept on chopping the wood, and so
exasperated his stepfather that he jumped up
out of bed and struck him in the face, and
walked back to his room and commenced to
put on his clothes Strong put on his coat,
and said that as long as he refused to let him
cook his breakfast, he would go to his work
without eating, and started down stairs. In .
few moments he returned, and walked
through the kitchen into his stepfather's
room with Deringer pistol in his hand, and
without another word. placed it up to his
stepfathers head, and fred. The bullet took
effect in the left side Of the head, penetrating
the brain.
He placed the pistol in his pocket and
walked down stairs to the street, where he
met several parties and told them that he had
shot his stepfather, and was looking for po-
liceman to take him to jail. He walked out
to the New Basin and threw his pistol into
the water, and seated himself on doorstep,
asking every one that passed to get police
man to take him to Jail.
Corporal Miller came up and he told him
that he was the man that did the shooting,
and he was taken in custody by the officer
our reporter interviewed him, and obtained
the following statement:
I am 19years old, and was employed in the
Commercial Bakery. My mother woke me
up early in the morning, as she was in the
habit OF doing. I got up and commenced to
chop wood to cook my breakfast.
The old man told me to go down stairs and
chop my wood; he didn't want to be disturbed
so early in the morning with my noise. was
in hurry to get off to work and did not pay
any attention to him. He jumped up out Of
bed, ran into the kitchen where was chop
ping the wood and struck me in the .ce.
This made me mad and took my hat and coat
and started down stairs; when got to the
bottom of the stairs I took q notion that l
would go back and kill the old man and did
80.
walked down stairs to the street. and out
10 the basin, and threw the pistol in the water
I sat down on the doorstep and when the
policeman came up to me told him, I'm the
one that shot that man, and went to Jail with
him. ECoroner Cnastant has been notified and
will hold an inquest.