The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-06-26
Crimes and Casualties.

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Crimes and Casualties.
Approximately 200 persons were
killed by a tornado that struck Furgrls
Falls. Mimi. Sunday afternoon and
wiped out three blocks in the business
section of the city. More than 100
homes were leveled. e.
W. $. Bell, of Crowell, Texas, state
senator. died In that place early sun
day morning from wounds received
late last Saturday night in an Ell
counter with james Cafford, farmer,
and his wife. in front of Bells theater.
John Norman. station agent at Myr-
tbs, was shot and killed Tuesday eve-
ming, as he was leavisss the depot, by
a negro named HamleiL Posses have
been searching for the negro and re-
ward has been offered Cor his capture.
Two bandits, after. binding Miss
Tessie Trudeau, teller and cashier in a
Toledo Ohio, Bank, lutte last Friday
afternoon, escaped with $500 in cash.
Depositors entering the bank frighten-
ed the bandits away before they could
open the vault, in Which was $1,000
an automobile.
Probably the most sensational man
hunt in the State of Mississippi is the
one for John Hartfiele, a negro who
attacked and seriously injured young
white woman at Laurel that state, one
day last week, which has continued
with persistency for Eight days by
hundreds of men throughout that sec
tion Of the state.
Miss frankie Owens, il telephone OPP
orator in DE Queen. Arr, was shot and
.dsngereaslly susssa,stlaal 40 esnidss. - i
man known az Frank O'Brien. After
he had shot the girl, he killed himself.
He left note saying that his real
name was Adolphus Williams and that
he did the shooting because the young
woman refused to marry him.
w. H. Pierce, formerly postmaster ut
Doyline. was arrested in Shreveport
last Friday to answer the federal
charge of robbing the Doyline, post
office Of several hundred dollars during:
May, 1917. Pierce said he lost the
money between his home and the post
Office. and that when he was unable to
find or replace it he fled from Doyline.
One man was hurt and the other an
nOunced he would surrender as the re-
suit of Il gun duel at WOodwOrth be-
tween Will McNlain and Armstead But.
ler. who fired at each other with
double-barrel shotguns. the authorities
announced last Saturday. McN1ail
was seriously injured by Butler. But
Ter escaped unhurt. They are brothers
| in-law.
Joseph Wade Bouanchaud, pOstmas
ter at New Roads and brother of Hew.
lit Bouanchaud, speaker of the Louis
lana House of Representatives. was
killed Tuesday when Il shotgun he wa.
cleaning was accidentally discharged
the load killing him instantly. This i.
the fifth member Of the Bouanclaut
family to die within the last thirteel
months.
Frank Fokall. white farmer Of Sill
yer Hall, Ala. was killed Sunday Will,
asleep in cell of the Baldwin Count.
Jail at Bay Minette, that state, by nin'
men who gained entrance to the jai
by overI,owering the sheriff and takin,
the keys. Fokall was awaiting trail OF
a charge Of numbering Robert Bishol
Oh the LIST. A posse is searching for tin
lynchers.
Charles 4. Hutchinson, Il well know
planter of Milldale, about twenty mile
from Baton Rouge. was killed b,
Charles Hutchinson, jr., his fourteen
year. old son. last Friday morning dur
ing Il family alteration 1t Is said thu,
Hutchinson had been drinking and th;,
he stabbed one of his daughters an
fought his wife. The boy then obtaine
shotgun and literally blew off Iii
fathers head.
That the search for draft Stacker
has not relaxed was shown Tuesday b
the arrest and conviction of Davi
Sc;lhmberg, of New York, upon his n
turn there after Il two-year. 3OOO-mil
trip a-foOt through Mexico and Centr;
America. He was sentenced in til
criminal branch Of the federal distri(
court to one years Imprisonment fO
failing to answer call to nilitar
duty after filling IA questionable.