News: ANTONIO, JOE, Caddo Parish, LA
Submitted by:  Peggy Hale
Date Submitted:  July 18, 2006
Contact:  Peggyhale@aol.com
Source: The Shreveport Times


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     A Brutal Act--About 3 o'clock, p. m., yesterday, Mr. Joe Alston, clerk of the Clifford,
had some difficulty with the cook of the boat, a yellow man, known as Charley Williams,
who at one time cooked at the Brook's house.  Shortly after the man started up the steps leading to
the cabin, with a large dirk-knife in hand, when the watchman, Joe Antonio, told him he had
better go back or he would get into trouble.  Thereupon, and without further provocation, the
scoundrel plunged the knife into Antonio's side, inflicting, it is feared, a mortal wound.  Drs. 
Suell and Moore were probing the wound when we left. Antonio is a very peaceable and 
good man, very much liked by Mr. Hamilton and all the attaches of the boat.  The negro is 
said to be a very bad man.  When we left the levee, the police were in search of him.
[Shreveport Times, March 4, 1873.]