Concordia Parish, LA

The Ouachita Telegraph - Julius Heil Surrenders in Shooting



Date: Oct 2000

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





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The Ouachita Telegraph

Saturday, December 8 , 1888

Page 2, Column 3



 VIDALIA, LA., Dec. 3. – A young man named Julius Heil, a clerk in the

Lehman store at Fairview Landing, Concordia parish, shot and killed a

colored man at that place last night.

 Mr. Heil claims that the negro entered the store and provoked a difficulty

with him and then assaulted him. He seized a Winchester rifle that was

behind the counter and shot the negro through the head, killing him

instantly.  Heil surrendered himself and is in the parish jail at Vidalia. –

Picayune.



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