The Ouachita Telegraph - John Nixon Shot by C. W. Cammack

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


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The Ouachita Telegraph
January 15, 1870
Page 2, Column 2

        A dispatch has been received here that John Nixon, Esq., of the Commission
firm of Thornhill & Nixon, of New Orleans, died in that city on Monday last.
  Deceased was well known in North Louisiana and Southern Arkansas.  We
understand his life was insured for $20,000.
        From the city papers of Tuesday, we learn that Mr. Nixon's death was caused
by a gunshot wound, proved to have been given by Mr. C.W. Cammack, cashier
of the Citizen's Bank, during an altercation between the two about the sale
of the home place of Gen. St. John Liddell, of Catahoula, by the Citizens
Bank.  Cammack purchased the property for himself and E.B. Cotton and Chas.
Jones, and subsequently transferred it to the original owners, without
consulting his partners, for whom Mr. Nixon, the Times says, was agent.  In
the fatal encounter, Cammack appears, however, to have been the aggressor.
The same transaction came near causing very serious trouble some weeks ago
between Gen. Liddell, Mr. Nixon and others.  Mr. Nixon, as he then told the
editor of this paper, was acting simply as the commission merchant of Mr.
Jones, and in this capacity no doubt met his death, now the subject of
general and deep regret in New Orleans.

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