Newspapers: Johnson Mathews, Killed,Franklin Parish, LA,
Submitted by: Glenda Warner Boyd
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The Franklin Sun     Winnsboro, LA    August 16, 1929
Submittted March 2009 by: Glenda Warner Boyd
 
Negro Killed On Delhi Road On Last Friday
Alf Mason and Otho Butler Are Now In Jail As Suspects.
 
Johnson Mathews, colored, was killed last Friday on the 
Winnsboro-Delhi highway a mile or so above the Baker Plantation 
in North Franklin Parish.
Mathews was apparently enroute to Delhi when the incident occured. 
Residents living on the road heard several shots. This instigated 
investigation and Mathew's body was found at the rear of an automobile 
he was driving. One bullet had entered the brain and several had pierced 
the body near the spinal column.
Two negroes, Alf Mason and Otho Butler, were seen to enter the car driven 
by Mathews near Baker's store according to several residents. No one was 
near the automobile when the investigation of the shooting was made.
It is thought that Mathews was killed while fixing a tire and was fired 
upon unwares.
Mason and Butler are now being held in the parish jail, awaiting developments.
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