Claiborne Parish Louisiana Archives News.....Miss Demois Killed March 25, 1844

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The Daily Gazette [Utica NY] March 25, 1844
A Miss Demois was killed about the 15th, near Minden, Claiborne Parish, La. 
She left the house of a neighbor in the evening to return to the house of her 
father, a respectable planter, but not arriving, a search was commenced, and a 
young man, by name Lambright, was met in the woods. Upon the searching party 
proposing to up a certain branch, he stated it was no use, he had been there, 
hunting, &c. They did go, however, and found her dead. She had been violated, 
severely beaten, and then her head was held under water to finish the work of 
death. Some other circumstances have excited suspicion of Lambright, but there 
is no positive evidence against him. He is a young man, married, with one 
child, and before his marriage, had addressed Miss Demois, and been by her 
rejected.

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