Assumption County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Locker, Marie Madeleine Leclere January 27, 1884
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871 - current, January 19, 1884, Image 3

A Woman Wounded. - Last Monday evening about 8 o'clock a scandalous shooting 
affair took place in the town of Napoleaonville, Assumption parish. Antoine 
Locker, a shoemaker who is addicted to the inordinate use of liquor, lay 
down on his bed in a state of intoxication, when his wife took his revolver 
from under his pillow with the intention of hiding it, fearing that in one 
of his frequent quarrelsome moods he might injure himself or some one else 
with the weapon. Locker got up and seized hold of the revolver and in the 
struggle for its possession it was discharged, the ball entering Mrs. 
Locker's breast and inflicting what was thought to be a fatal wound. At last 
accounts, however, she was doing quite well and was expected to recover. 
Locker was arrested and put in jail, and the indignation was so great 
against him that one or two excitable persons suggested lynching, but the 
idea was not countenanced. The couple have been married thirty-five years 
and have seven children, four of whom are married. The excitement caused by 
the shooting gave rise to a false alarm of fire, and the firemen dragged 
their engine some distance along the muddy streets before ascertaining the 
true cause of the furore.

source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871 - current, 
February 02, 1884, Image 3

Mrs. Antoine Locker, the unfortunate woman shot by her husband at 
Napoleonville on the 14th ult., under the circumstances reported in the 
CHIEF of week before last, expired from the effects of her wound, Sunday 
night at 10 o'clock. She took the blame of the shooting on herself, 
insisting that her husband was in nowise responsible. The affair was 
inquired into by the District Judge shortly after its occurrence and Locker 
was released from jail.


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