Selected Death notices from the Lafayette Advertiser 1873-1905
Submitter: Audrey Hopper (RHopper454 @ aol.com)
Source: Lafayette Advertiser
Date: May 26, 2005


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From the Lafayette Advertiser
Saturday, Sept. 26, 1891 col 2

     A lamentable homicide at a festal gathering occurred o the farm of 
Mr. D. Clavery, on Bayou Vermillion, about 15 miles below Lafayette, last 
Monday night.  Calvery shooting and instantly killing one of his tenants, 
J.A. Thibodeaux.  One of Clavery’s daughters was to be married next day, 
and that night he had given a party in honor of the approaching occasion.  
No doubt a too free imbibing of liquors was the cause of the fatal 
catastrophe.  Remy I. Hebert, the main witness examined by the coroner, 
testified as follows:  “Jean Arthur Thibodeaux, Dominique Clavery and 
Paul Cazeau left the house and walked in the direction of a certain 
coulee.  After sometime I saw Dominique Clavery returning and in about 
ten minutes after Cazeau and Thibodeaux came back: but before they 
entered the yard I saw Clavery with his gun.  I then asked the two 
men which of them was Clavery angry with?  To which Clavery answered 
that he did not know.  Clavery then said:  “I would like to see the 
man who would make himself master of my house.”  Clavery then said 
something about shooting, when Thibodeaux said “shoot!: at the same 
time putting his hand on his breast.  It was then that Clavery fired 
the fatal shot, the contents of which lodged in Thibodeaux’s left 
breast, killing him instantly.”  Coroner Gladu held the inquest.  
The jury returned a verdict to the effect that Jean Arthur Thibadeaux 
had come to his death from a gunshot wound at the hands of Dominique 
Clavery, and that the killing was felonious.  Clavery surrendered to 
the Sheriff, and is now confined in jail.  Dominiques Clavery is a 
native of France, and has resided in this parish a number of 
years.  J. A. Thibodeaux was a native of this parish, about thirty 
six years old, and leaves a widow and two small children.