Law & Order: Trooper J. N. Pollard Killed & New Orleans Man Charged in Death ,
Grant Parish, Louisiana
Source: November 22, 1956 Winn Parish Enterprise-News American & November 29,
1956 Winn Parish Enterprise-News American
Submitted to USGENWEB by:
Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483






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TROOPER J. N. POLLARD KILLED WHILE DIRECTING TRAFFIC


State Police Trooper J. N. Pollard, 37, of Bentley, was struck by an auto and
killed while directing traffic on U. S. Highway 71, one mile north of
Montgomery Tuesday night.

Trooper Pollard was well known in this area and had worked in close
cooperation with Winn Sheriff Sanford Jordan.

Pollard who was with Troop E at Alexandria was resident trooper for Grant
Parish.

The Trooper was hit while standing in the middle of the highway as a truck was
being pulled from the ditch onto the highway.

According to reports, Pollard had stopped a motorist suspected of being drunk. 
A truck  had driven upon the scene and stopped and bogged down in the mud on
the shoulder of the highway, and Pollard was directing operations.

Driver of the car was identified as a man from New Orleans.  His name was not
available.  The Trooper, badly mangled, lived only a short while after being
struck, and was dead on arrival at the hospital.

Funeral services will be held at Prospect Church near Bentley at 10 a.m.
Thursday.




From:  November 29, 1956 Winn Parish Enterprise-News American

NEW ORLEANS MAN CHARGED IN DEATH OF STATE TROOPER


Wilson Corcoran, a Federal Public Health Service worker from new Orleans, is
being held by State Police on a charge of negligent homicide in connection
with the death of State Trooper Nelson Pollard.

Corcoran was the driver of the auto that struck and killed Pollard as he was
directing traffic on U. S. Highway 71 about a mile and one-half north of
Montgomery on November 23.

Corcoran said he was driving about 55 miles per hour, when Pollard was hit, 
Captain E. C. Lyles of Troop E, Alexandria, reported.