The Monroe News Star - 
Walter McDaniels Shot After Hitting Patrolman With Hatchet

Date: Dec. 1999
Submitted by: Lora Peppers 


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The Monroe News-Star
Friday, August 19, 1910
Page 1, Column 4

HALF-WITTED NEGRO KILLED BY OFFICER
WALTER McDANIELS HIT POLICEMAN WITH HATCHET
The Patrolman Had Revolver Leveled Upon the Negro and Warned Him Not to Strike.
Shreveport, Aug. 19.-The Times says: While making a murderous assault upon 
Patrolman H.J. Wait, who had him under arrest, Walter McDaniels, a half-witted
negro preacher was shot through the head and instantly killed about 11:30 o'clock 
yesterday morning, the killing occurring on the railroad tracks near the 
intersection of Wilson's alley.
At the time that he was killed McDaniels was making an assault upon the 
officer with a hatchet. He turned and struck at the patrolman's head with 
the instrument but the officer luckily threw his head aside and the blow 
fell upon his shoulder. He was lunging forward and the blade of the hatchet 
passed over the shoulder, the handle striking him. Had the hatchet struck 
him in the forehead where it was aimed it would doubtless have brained him.
He used a .45 calibre revolver and the bullet struck the negro under the 
left eye, ploughing its way upward and killing him instantly.
Coroner Alexander ordered the body removed to the Wellman's morgue where an 
inquest was held yesterday afternoon. The jury found that the negro came to 
his death by a gunshot wound inflicted by Patrolman H.J. Wait, the same 
being in self-defense.

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