The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
DOUBLE KILLING AT L0CKp0RT.
Ben Holloway. Proprietor of Saloon
at that Place and Sam Bow.
man, q Young Pipe Fit.
ter the Victims.

ter the Victims.
On Thursday night of last week, Sam
Bowman, who had been playing cards
with some friends in the saloon of Ben
Holloway at Lockport, announced
about S:45 that he was sleepy and in
tended going home.
Mr.. Holloway was standing behind
the bar and after Bowman left started
to open can of sardines. He was
standing with his left side toward the
back door when suddenly there was a
flash in the darkness and the contents
of a gun, heavily loaded with buck
shot entered his left side. His wife
was notified and reached his side 10 a
few minutes, but he lived only long
enough to speak few words.
While engaged in looking after H0l-
loway second gun shot was heard,
but no attention was paid to it until
a few minutes later when a breathless
negro ran into the saloon and stated
that he had stumbled over dead body
in the road three or four hundred
feet from the saloon. Investigation
showed that the body was that of Sam
| Bowman, who left the saloon only a
few minutes before the shooting of Hol"
loway. His head was riddled with
buckshot and the direction they took
showed they entered his head from the
side and little behind. He was dead
when found and must have been in.
stantly killed.
1t is supposed that Bowman ran up
on Holloway's slayers and was killed,
either to destroy his evidence or by
mistake for someone else.
Sheriff Reid and three deputies,
together with Coroner Fisher were at
once notified and reached the scene OF
the dca5le murder about IL o'clock.
Coroner Fisher at once took the
testimony of those present, adjourn
ing the inquiry until Saturday. The
sheriff and his deputies Immediately
began a close investigation of the
premesis and the trail left by the
horses which the slayers of Holloway
and Bowman rode.
A deputy sheriff, early Friday morn.
ing, arrested Newton Lyons, of Sui
phur and took him to Lake Charles,
pending an inquiry into Holloway's
death.
Newton Lyons is proprietor OF a sa-
loon at sulphur and is we'll known
here. He is about 30 years old, is
married, and has born a good repu.
tation as peaceable and quiet man.
1t is understood that he and his broth
err Isaac previously had trouble with
Holloway. 1t is stated, however, that
Holloway had also had dispute with
some negroes at Lockport and that the
killing might have arisen from that
cause. Friends of Mr.. Lyons ask for
a suspension of public opinion until
the facts of the affair are fully known,
He was released on bail Monday af.
ternoon, the amount of bail being fixed
at $1,000 which was promptly furn'
iShed.
The coroner's jnry, consisting of c.
c. Curley, Nathan Clifton, w. j.
Barney H. M. Chitwood, and Hardy
Clifton, rendered verdict that Bow
man came to his death from gun
shot wound in the head, six buckshot
entering the right side, one ntar the
ear and five about two inches above
the ear, the shot being fired by an un'
known party.
The verdict was the same in the Hol
loway case, except that the wound Wa:
in the left side, about nine bucksho
entering between the sixth and seventh
ribs, causing death in a few minutes
this also being fired by an unknown
party.