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| Through the
medium of a friend and
subscriber in Franklin parish,
we have received the details of
a horrible affair which took
place on Bayou Macon, about the
4th inst. A trading boat had
entered the headwaters of the
bayou some ten days previous,
and was floating quietly down
toward the confluence of the
Tensas river, stopping to trade
at points along the route. The
boat was owned and managed by a
Mr. Arbuckle, accompanied by his
wife, and assisted by a Mr.
Graham. .When she reached a
point within, two or three miles
of Tensas river, and while Mr.
Graham was at some distance from
the boat, in a skiff, three
disguised men boarded her,
killed Mr. Arbuckle in his
wife's presence, and made off
with the cash—$1500.
Our correspondent informs us
that he has never seen a
community so unanimously
indignant .and so deternined to
punish criminals. Action was
prompt, and suspicion having
fallen on Henry A. Lewis and A B
and T L Norris young A. B.
young men respectively 22,
24, and 29 years of age,
warrants were at once obtained,
and the two Norris's arrested.
Lewis escaped.. These
young men belong to the oldest
and most distinguished families
of the neighborhood. Their
fathers are well-known planters
and merchants, formerly of great
wealth, and still, of the
highest standing. They are all
grandsons of the late Dr.
Samuel Cloud. It seems almost
incredible that persons of such
character and breeding should
have engaged in what the
preliminary examination shows to
have been a deliberate
conspiracy as well as a foul and
cruel murder; still our
information is such as to leave
no room for doubt that they have
been at least been suspected and
arrested. Lewis however
escaping as above
mentioned. July 22, 1868 Times
Picayune. |
| Judge T.
Crawford and District-Attorney
Arthur H. Harris, of the Twelfth
Louisiana Judicial District,
were assassinated on the 8th,
twelve miles southwest of
Winnsboro, in Franklin Parish,
while on their way to hold court
at that place. They were shot
seven times and their brains
blown out. The murderers were
not known, but it was thought
that, personal, and not
political, differences led to
the assassination, as Crawford
was a Radical and Harris a
Democrat. Sept 18, 1873 Jackson
Sentinel. |
| _The
murder of Judge Crawford and
district Attorney Harris, near
Winnsboro, Franklin parish,
Louisiana, on last Monday, is
thought to have been committed
by a party of desperadoes known
as Tom Winn's gang. Their leader
was, at the last term of the:
court, tried at Columbia before
Judge: Crawford, for murder, and
was convicted, the prosecution
being carried on by Harris. The
convict escaped from jail before
sentence was passed, and has
threatened repeatedly since to
kill the judge and the district
attorney, Both the unfortunate;
gentlemen were highly. esteemed.
The people are in active pursuit
of the murderers. Gov. Kellogg
offers a liberal reward for
their arrest. Sept 19, 1873 Iowa
Dubuquoe Herald |
| —On
Wednesday, the 11th inst . . Mr.
Wm Pierce of Franklin parish,
Louisiana, was killed by
two of his negro men at his
plantation in Beouf Prairie. He
attempted to flog them,
whereupon they attacked and
killed him Dec 17, 1857
Jeffersonian |
| At Franklin
Parish, La., June 6, 1887 Mandy
Henderson, a colored woman, was
stabbed to death by her four
sisters. She had deserted her
husband and taken up with a man
named Ed. Thomas, but returned.
Then she left him again and went
back to Thomas. This incensed
her sisters who called on her,
and when she went to the door to
meet them, made the fatal
assault. Thomas killed one of
the sisters with a club in
endeavoring to defend his
paramour. Decatur Daily Review |
| Vicksburg
Miss.—Peter Johnson, a
prominent resident of Franklin
parish, La,, and owner of the
Sicily Island plantation, was
crushed to death by a falling
tree August 8, 1894 Galveston
News |
| A special
to the Democrat from Winnsboro,
La., says on Monday last Monroe
Gullen, living in the lower part
of Franklin parish, was shot and
instantly killed by his
father-in-law, G. H. Dunn. The
motive for the act and the
particulars are alike unknown.
No effort has thus far been made
to arrest Dunn, who remains
quietly at home. A dispatch from
Franklin, La., says two colored
boys, Eddie and Aleck Howard,
have confessed the murder of
Richard O'Neill, aged fourteen,
on the 11th instant, in a field
near Franklin. They took
O'Neill's gun away from him.
shot him through the shoulders,
then fractured his skull in
several places by beating him
over the head. Nov 20, 1881
Galveston News |
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