New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-31
STATE NEWS.
CADDO.

CADDO.
From the Shreveport Times, January q
We learn that on Monday evening a man
by the name of Myer, living q mile beyond
Cypress bayou, on the kingston road, in De
Soto parish, was shot and killed by some
party unknown. 1t seems he had been out
hog bunting, when his horse came running
to his house with blood on his saddle. His
wife Immediately got negro living near to
notify some of the neighbors, who went in
search. They found his dead body on the
roadside about quarter of mile from the
house. An examination showed that he
was shot in two places. A full charge of
buckshOt had entered the breast, and there
were some shot on the side of the neck.
The body was Immediately in front of the
residence of Mr.. Wynn-eOme 200 yards
distant. The neighbOrs dispatched q mes.
senger for an officer to hold an inquest, but
our informant did not know whether or not
he had arrived,
The murdered man was a laborer, had
been in the neighborhOod about q year, and
had married q Widow Tubbs. There was
no clue, so far as we could learn, to lead to
detection of the perpetratOr of the deed.
Meyer is said to have been an overbeRring
mar, not good citizen, and it was ru-
mOred that he had threatened the life Of
some one Of his neighboTs.
FRANKLIN.
From the Sun, January q:
On Wednesday last MIR. A. Z. Allen,
| proprietor of the wharfbOat at the mouth
OF Turkey creek, was killed by John P.
Matthews. The particulars, as nearly as
/ we can learn, are az tollowe: The parties
mad an alteration about some freight,
| in the course of which Matthews
drew a derringer and shot Allen and
continued firing at him with a revolver,
| which he had been holding in his hand
while oursing him. After Matthews first
| fired, Allen drew derringer and shot at
Matthews, missing him, and then retreated
| into the whsrfb0at, when he died in five or
ten minutes, ball having passed through
the iugular vein. Allen was an enterpris.
| ing, industrious gentleman, q good citizen,
| and Mason. Matthews belongs to one 81
| the most respectable families in the parish,
and it is to be regretted that he should have
been led to commit so rash an act. Our
| active young sheriff has been securing the
country since the killing to arrest Nat
thews. Posses have been sent in different
directions, but up to this writing Matthews
has not yet been captured.
LAFAYETTE.
From the VermiliOn Advertiser, January
We learn that a cOlored man by the name
of Milien Grange was shot and killed last
| Thursday evening, about twelve miles west
of this place. The coroner went out yes
terday morning to hold an inquest, and up
to the time Of our going to press he had not
|
able man, well esteemed by his neighbors
and owned the farm upon which he re-
sided. Next week we will give all the de-
tails Of the affair that can be obtained.
| ST. JAMES.
From the Sentinel, January q:
Last Monday evening Mr.. G.. F. Roman
went out to his front gate to secure it for
the night, and in order 10 make his work
more certain, lifted a post out of the mud
to use as brace. A few minutes afterward
he went back TO his house and commenced
walking up and down the gallery,
complaining of blood rushing to
his head. Mrs. Roman advised
him to sit down, but he said that he could
not, as his legs were stiff. A moment after
ward he said; II think l am going to fall r
AS he said this he fell to the floor in an un-
conscious state, and was taken and lifted TO
his bed. In about half an hour afterward
he expired, seemingly without pain. He
was native of this parish, and hfty-three
years of age. He leaves q wife and numer.
Ons friends to mourn his loss.