The Ouachita Telegraph - John Thompson Kills Robert Jennings

Date: May 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>


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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, September 2, 1871
Page 3, Column 3

BOSSIER.
 We find the following in the Banner:
 MURDER. — Robert Jennings, a freedman, was killed by John Thompson,
another freedman, on Maj. Irwin's place on the night of the 19th inst.
A great excitement spread among the colored population.  Thirty or forty
freedmen, armed with double-barrel guns, joined a posse to search for
Thompson, who had fled.  The posse did not succeed in making the arrest
but Thompson was seen by the laborers of a plantation some ten miles
from the scene of his crime and was run down and arrested.  His is now
in our jail.

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