News article:"Dennis Boyd Hung for Murder of David Haas"/Bossier Parish/LA
Source: The Ouachita Telegraph 
Submitted by: Lora Peppers 
Date: Oct 2000
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The Ouachita Telegraph
Sunday, May 16, 1886
Page 1, Column 4

 The death warrant for the execution of Dennis Boyd, who it will be
remembered murdered an Israelite by the name of David Haas at the latter’s
store near Benton, Bossier parish, on the 24th of December, (Christmas Eve)
1884, has been signed by Governor McEnery and the execution of the sentence
of the law, which condemned him to be hung by the neck until dead has been
fixed, for Friday, June 11th.  Boyd now languishes in the Caddo jail.

NOTE:  The Sunday, June 13, 1886, edition, Page 3, Column 2 relates that
Boyd was hung in Bellevue, Louisiana.

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