Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1921-05-13
w. G. MOBLEY
Alexandria La. -

ly says:
subsequently Col. Jones was shot
and killed by the late Judge N. ].
Liddell. Col. Jones was standing on
the bank of the river at the landing
at Harrisonburg and Judge Liddell
was on a boat which was making the
landing. As soon as he saw his enemy
he called to the crowd TO get out
of the way and levelling his gun on
Col. Jones, fired. The result was as
stated"
The only foundation for the above
statement, is the fact that Nose
Liddell, the eldest son Of the dead
General, was passing Harrisonburg
on a Ouachita steamer en- route to
his old home and bereaved family,
when he happened Ia see the elder
Jones standing on the front gallery
of the sheriff's residence and inn
mediately fired at him with q double
barrel shot gun, inflicting no dam
age, but causing him to hurriedly'
re-enter and seek safety behind the
barred doors Of the sheriff's resi-
dence.
The Star is also authority for the
following grossly erroneous state
ment:
Later the Liddell faction raided
the Jones home at night and killed
all of them, except the two boys
mentioned, but our recollection is that
the youngest, Francois, was not there
at the time. Cuthbert escaped by
hanging out of the window until
the raiders left, he being undiscovered
in his hiding place."
There was no ."Liddell faction"
The "Jones home" was not "raid-
ed" at night; nor upon any other
occasion. Mrs. Jones and her daugh-
ter, Miss Rosa, lived at the plantation
home and in Jonesville, entirely un-
molested until the death of each, Q
few years ago. Francois was a boy
of tender years, too young to partic-
ipaos m me aslan1 lDbu md never
would have been disearbed, even had
his mother not sent him to Europe
to be educated.
The writer was in New Orleans
when the St. Mary arrived with the
sad news, as General Liddell was well
known in the city and was there held
in the highest esteem. Hence, it can
be easily inferred that the intelli-
gence of his death cast q pail Of
gloom and dependency over the
business circles of New Orleans,
coming as it did immediately upon
the killing almost simultaneously of
Cammack, cashier of the Citizens
Bank, by ]. O. Nixon, another homi-
eide growing out Of and directly at
tributable TO the Jones-Lidden- feud.
The steamboat which conveyed the
writer homeward a'day or two there
then being planter on the
Tensas river-was boarded at every
landing on Black and Tensas rivers
by one or more friends of General
Liddell, who made no secret of the
fact, nor evidenced any disposition
to conceal it, that an expedition was
being organized to go to Harrison
burg and avenge his assassination,
for such was it considered through
out the entire country. -.
It is peedless to state that no dif-
ficulty was experienced in the exc
cution of such q project and that at
the appointed time. the relatives.
friends and admirers of General
Liddell, planters and men of stand
ing in their respective communities,
residing on Black and Tensas rivers
in Catahoula, Concordia and Tensas
parishes, went to Harrisonburg. cross
ing the river, surrounding the house
of the sheriff and shot to death Col
Jones and eldest son William. Cuth-
bert, in the excitement naturally en-
suing, ran up stairs, unnoticed, went
through window on the second
story, resting with his hands on the
window sill and his right foot upon
the chimney, in which perilous po-
sition he remained until the party, de-
SPARED Of finding him. recrossed the
river and returned to their respect
i've homes. He then re-entered the
room, ran down stairs and made good
his escape from Cstahoula parish.
He has never considered it safe
to return, although the family and
relatives of General Liddell have been
decimated since that time by death,
none Of the survivors now residing In
that parish. Indeed, he has nothing
to return for, he being the last Of
his family alive and their once regal
possessions having passed into the
hands Of strangers for debt
The difficulty had its origin, not
as the Star says, "over business mat
tsrs," but, ~ eorrsstly stated, ''thers
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