The Ouachita Telegraph - George Washington Shoots and Kills W. H. Taylor

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


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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, May 12, 1888
Page 2, Column 1

 A negro boy with a wooden leg, age about 17 years named George Washington,
way laid, shot and killed W.H. Taylor, white, a citizen of Catahoula parish
while he was plowing in his field.  The boy was caught, and as the following
account from the Harrisonburg News would indicate, neither his wooden leg
nor the distinction of passing under the name of the Father of his Country
saved him:
 The boy was captured by the constable of the ward and a posse who started
for this place with him – but up to this writing they have not reached here.
  It is some distance from here, the roads are bad and the woods are thick
and it is conjectured that he might have escaped from the posse.
 He probably escaped a trial by jury but the crime was a horrible one and if
he got “lost” in the thickest of those thick woods his fate was well
merited.

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