Obituary of JIMMIE HOLT, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm 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:  February 6, 1936, Thursday

Headline:  Jena Man's Brother Killed at Alexandria on Monday Morning

Bill of information charging Evertt W. Neyland, 35, operator of a novelty 
company in Alexandria with manslaughter in connection with the death of 
Jimmie Holt, aged 46, former beer garden proprietor, was filed by the 
district attorney's office.  Neyland was released from the Rapides jail after 
posting a bond of $1,000, fixed by Judge L. L. Hooe.

Holt, who was shot in the head with a .38 caliber bullet about 11 o'clock 
Sunday night at Mathews' Beer Garden at Texas Avenue and The Masonic Drive 
died at the Baptist Hospital at 1:30 o'clock Monday morning.  Dr. S. L. 
Calhoun, Rapides Parish Coroner, viewed the body and said that the bullet 
entered his right jaw and ranged upward.

Following the shooting, Neyland called Sheriff U. T. Downs and told him he 
had shot a man and wanted to surrender.  The Sheriff went to the scene and 
Neyland and several witnesses told him that Holt had struck Neyland on the 
back of the head with a stick.  As Neyland turned, they said, hold struck him 
on the nose and Neyland pulled his gun and shot him.  Neyland and witnesses 
told Sheriff Downs that no words passed between the two men.

Neyland told the sheriff that he shot in self defense.  An ambulance rushed 
Holt to the hospital and Sheriff Downs took Neyland there where his injuries 
were treated.  He suffered an injury to the nose and laceration on the back 
of his head.

Holt formerly operated the Circle Beer Garden, located just out of the city 
limits of Alexandria.

Holt is survived by his wife, who before marriage was Miss Pearl Fant of 
Alexandria; one daughter, Mary Alice Holt; two brothers, Louis Holt, Jena, 
La., and Jack Holt, Memphis, Tenn.; eight sisters, Mrs. R. C. Rendmond, Miss 
Dollie Holt, Little Rock, Ark.; Mrs. W. T. Ivy, Amarillo, Texas; Mrs. L. M. 
Messinger, Mrs. E. B. Bramlett, Mrs. Roy Cross, Mrs. Grover Ringgold, Cabot, 
Ark.