Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Hall, Jason - April 10, 1885
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
April 18, 1885, page 2


Jason Hall - Colored Boy Killed - On Saturday last, the 11th inst., at the 
Ashland plantation in the seventh ward of this parish, Jason Hall, a colored 
boy, was shot and killed by a companion and playmate, Philip Saul, 15 years old. 
Philip had taken from his father's house a revolver with one chamber loaded that 
had been in the office of the Clerk and Recorder for a long time as evidence in 
the shooting case against Dave Jackson, and the boy made several attempts to 
discharge the weapon without success. He was snapping the hammer, with the 
pistol pointing in the direction of Hall, when the loaded chamber was 
unexpectedly discharged and the bullet passed through the latter's left hand and 
into his stomach, producing internal hemorrhage and death. An inquest was 
conducted by Dr. Duffel, and a verdict rendered by the Coroner's jury in 
accordance with the facts above recited. The boy who did the shooting has been 
placed under arrest to await a judicial investigation of the homicide.


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