VOORHIES CALLIGAN STABBED BY NEGROES
Crowley Signal October 1903
News Article from Adadia Parish
Submitted by Winston Boudreaux, 2006

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VOORHIES CALLIGAN STABBED BY NEGROES
Crowley Signal October 1903
(note: the name is most likely “Colligan”)
Voorhies Calligan, a son of Jos. Calligan, one of the most prominent farmers 
of this section, was stabbed in the back and perhaps fatally wounded by 
Cyprien Harrison, a negro, at about midnight Saturday. Harrison and another 
negro named Enzet, alias jules Dardenaux, were arrested and brought to the 
parish jail in Crowley.
Calligan and another young white man named Frank Henry were on their way 
home, riding one horse through the streets of Church Point when they met the 
two negroes who were very drunk and staggering along the road. The horse 
became frightened at the antics of the negroes and shied, causing a quarrel 
between its riders and the intoxicated blacks. Harrison drew a long-bladed 
knife and stabbed young Calligan in the back, just below the fifth rib on the 
left side. Henry jumped off the horse and escaped unhurt, and the negroes 
fled.
The negroes were arrested shortly afterwards by Deputy Sheriff R.W. Davis 
and brought before Justice of the Peace H.D. McCormick at Church Point, who 
investigated the case and committed them to the district court for trial. They 
were taken to Crowley by Mr. Davis and Mayor J.D. Murrel of Church Point and 
lodged in the parish jail.
The young man’s wound is very serious and painful and his recovery is 
problematical. It seems that none of the parties to the deplorable tragedy are 
of a turbulent nature; but that the negroes were only made vicious by the 
amount of liquor they had imbibed.