Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Dick - September 1884
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Mary K. Creamer marykcreamer@yahoo.com December 29, 2019, 11:59 pm

source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871 - current,
September 13, 1884, Image 3

KILLED BY A WOMAN. - Last Saturday night, between 10 and 12 o'clock, Dick 
Brown, a well known young colored man living in the seventh Justice ward of 
this parish - a wild, harum scarum fellow who has been involved in a dozen 
shooting affairs and cutting scrapes - made his way into a room occupied by 
Deia Knox, a young colored woman living on the Linwood plantation. Upon 
being discovered by the occupant he is said to have crouched behind the 
door, whereupon the woman rant out upon the gallery, seizing a shotgun on 
the way. She called upon Brown to leave her room and receiving no response 
fired upon him, wounding him in both legs. He walked off and was discovered 
next morning lying in the weeds two or three hundred yards from the house, 
very weak from the loss of blood. He was carried into a neighboring cabin 
and properly cared for, but died Tuesday evening from the effect of his 
injuries. The Grand Jury investigated the matter and refused to indict the 
woman, deeming that she was justified in firing the fatal shot. It is 
alleged that Brown had previously attempted to enter the same house at night 
but was discovered before succeeding in the effort.


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