Obituary of JOSEPH CROOKS, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 15520 Swan Lake Blvd., Gulfport, MS 
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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfim at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date:  September 24, 1931, Thursday

Headline:  Two Dead, Two in Jail Following Sunday Killings
Sub-Headline:  Concordia Tragedies are being Investigated by Officers.

Ferriday, Sept. 21 (Special) - Charged with the murder of his brother-in-law, 
Joseph Crooks, 36, W. A. Montpelier, 26, was taken into custody Sunday 
afternoon and brought to the parish jail at Vidalia to await further 
investigation regarding the death of Crooks, who was shot Sunday afternoon 
aboard a house boat near the Louisiana and Arkansas railroad bridge on Black 
River, about 20 miles from Ferriday, where both reside.

Ferriday, Sept. 21 (Special) - As a result of a fight here Sunday afternoon, 
J. B. Miller, 45 year old lumber man, is dead, and F. J. Brown, 48, another 
timberman, is being held in the parish prison at Vidalia on a charge of 
murder after Miller died in a hospital at Natchez, Miss., where he was taken 
after the shooting.  Neither of the men were natives here, brown being from 
Union Springs, Ala., and Miller from Missouri.