Reward for Capture of Guillorys
September 1, 1873
News Article from Adadia Parish
Submitted by Winston Boudreaux, 2006

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Reward for Capture of Guillorys
September 1, 1873

Petition of the undersigned respectfully represent that accompanied by 
Messrs. C.C. Delafosse, Aristide Ortego and Benj. Fontenot, and armed with 
the necessary bench warrants from the 8th District Court of St. Landry on 
Thursday, August 13, 1873 to arrest Benjamin Guillory and Cyreaque Guillory, 
fugitives from justice from this parish, indicted for larceny and murder, and for 
the arrest of whom your honorable body had offered rewards amounting to 
$800.00. 
 
That on the 18th of August they reached the residence of the Guillorys on 
Little River, parish of Catahoula and the next morning attempted to arrest 
them, that they resisted, that one of them, Benjamin Guillory, fired upon the 
posse twice, that the other, Cyreaque Guillory, was shot down in endeavoring 
to reach his wife who was coming towards him with a double-barreled 
shotgun, that after Cyreaque Guillory fell, Benjamin Guillory ran through the 
house with his rifle in his hand, that as he reached the rear of the house he 
was halted by Deputy Sheriff W.C. Lewis, that he immediately raised his rifle to 
shoot Lewis, who fired upon him killing him instantly. 
 
Your petitioners aver that they desired above all things to arrest said parties 
and deliver them alive into the hands of the sheriff. That they made every 
effort to do so, and that they only fired in order to prevent a useless and 
unnecessary effusion of blood, and to save the lives of some of the posse, 
that your petitioners had no other alternative left but to kill said Guillorys, and 
that your petitioners under the circumstances claim the reward offered by 
your honorable body, and pray that a warrant for the amount issue to them for 
their general relief. 
 
W.C. Lewis, Deputy Sheriff; J.B. Jackson, Deputy Sheriff; C.C. Duson, for self 
and others; E.S. Andrus, for self and others.