The Ouachita Telegraph - L. E. Clark Shoots and Kills Walter Allen
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>
Date: Oct 2000

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, October 22, 1887
Page 2, Column 6

ACADIA.
 On Wednesday evening last, about sundown, L.E. Clark shot and killed Walter
Allen at the store of Kahn & Smith; at Pisquemine Bruiee, in this parish.
Clark is a young man not over twenty years of age.  Allen was about 30 years
of age and leaves a widow with one child.  These young men had had some hot
words on Friday before the killing, when friends interfered and prevented
any violence, Allen saying to Clark as they separated that he would “fix him
nest time they met.”  The fatal evening above referred to was the next
meeting between the parties, and when killed Allen had a pistol conveniently
in the waist of his pants, which Clark states he attempted to draw before he
(Clark) shot. – Rayne Signal.

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