Hinds County, MS
Crime Newspaper Data
Hinds County, MS
Crime Newspaper Data
March 28, 1868
The West Point HeraldHorrible Murder in Jackson
From a passenger train from Jackson, yesterday morning, we learned that a horrible murder was committed in that city about 9 o'clock, Monday night. Col. Wm. M. Estelle, a gallant soldier, a lawyer by profession, and a most genial gentleman, was brutally murdered while passing along the street on his way to his home. When he had reached the residence of the Rev. Mr. Crane, which is immediately opposite the Executive Mansion, he was met by an unknown man who, without a word, plunged a bowie knife into his stomach. Col. Estelle at once fell, and commenced crying murder! His cries soon brought persons to his assistance, who immediately carried him to his home, and sent for a surgeon. The murderer escaped. When Col. Estelle was stabbed e was within one square of his own house. When the train left yesterday, Col. E. was rapidly sinking, and no hope was entertained of his recovery.
Later - By the train last evening, we learned that a man named Gibbon, formerly in the service of the Internal Revenue department, was yesterday arrested on suspicion of having committed the dastardly deed. The bloody knife, which was dropped near the scene of the stabbing, was traced to him, and makes a strong link in the chain of circumstantial evidence - What makes this terrible affair more melancholy, is the impression which prevails that the blow, which cost Col. Estelle his life, was intended for another and not him! Col. Estelle was a native of Tennessee, but has been a citizen of Mississippi from his boyhood, and was about forty-five years of age. He served as a Captain in the 2d Mississippi Regiment, during the Mexican war, and held the rank of Col. in the Confederate Army during our late troubles. He was a widower and leaves two children. - - Vicksburg Daily Times, 25th inst
The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, MS
July 25, 1872One last Sunday Major W. H. Lockett, engineer of the Ripley Railroad, was stabbed and killed at Middletown, Tenn., by conductor McKnight of the Mississippi Central Railroad, who fled afterwards and is still at large.
Clinton Riot
The Bucks County Gazette (Bristol, Pennsylvania) September 9, 1875
The Vicksburg Herald give an account of Saturday’s riot at Clinton, Miss., which shows that it was more sanguinary than first reported. It appears that there is a law prohibiting the sale of liquor in Clinton, and a young man named Siveley, who had brought a bottle of whisky from a neighboring village, was about to take a drink with some friends, when he was forbidden to do so by the colored marshal of the meeting. They paid no attention to the marshal, and when he attempted to seize the bottle struck him on the head with it. A colored Senator named Caldwell started to settle difficulty and was followed by twenty other colored men. He told them to go back, but a hundred others came on. At this juncture someone fired a shot, and a general discharge of firemens (firearms?) and scattering of the crowd ensued. Sively, after discharging all the barrels of his revolver, surrendered to the negroes and had his brains knocked out. He was then stripped of his clothing and one of his fingers was cut off to get a ring. Charles Chilton was killed in the yard of his house, a young lawyer named Thomasson was shot off his house (horse?), and John Neal was fatally shot in the lung. On the other side four negroes were found dead in the field and tow mortally wounded, and six additional negroes have been found dead about Clinton since. The white men organized at once for self-protection, and telegraphed for reinforcements, which speedily arrived, giving them absolute control of the town. One of the trains conveying reinforcements from Jackson was fired into on Saturday night and obstructions were placed upon the track, but no one seems to have been injured. A telegram direct from Clinton, says that forty negroes have been killed, and that the leaders of the whites in this business are reported to be in Jackson, the capital of the State. Governor Ames has called upon General George, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, to assist in restoring order. A telegram to the Chicago Inter-Ocean reports Warren and Hinds counties in a state of insurrection. The Sheriff of Hinds county reports to Governor Ames that he summoned a posse on Sunday to quell riotous proceedings, and on visiting Clinton found the town quiet, but white men marauding in the country, shooting peacable colored citizens and driving others from their homes.
[Submitted by Nancy Piper]
Postoffice Inspector Shot.
Jackson. Miss.—Postoffice Inspector Charles Fitzgerald of this city was shot Tuesday by W. A. Soraby, clerk in the Clinton postoffice. [Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 9, 1908 Page 2 - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]