Obituary of JOHN L. WASHINGTON (MARTIN), LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 902 Kilgore Court, Allen, TX, 75013

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:  May 8, 1941

Headline:  Negro Killed Last Wk. Was Escape Convict

John L. Washington, colored, who was killed while resisting arrest near Trout 
Saturday night, June 28, was finger printed by the state police and according 
to information obtained by the local sheriff's department was an escaped 
convict from the state penitentiary at Parchman, Miss., where he was known as 
Percy Martin and was serving a 15 year sentence for burglary.  He escaped 
from the penitentiary October of 1940 where he had been Serving time since 
April 1938.

The Negro had been around Trout only about a week and had proved to be quite 
a trouble maker.  The local sheriff's force was endeavoring to search the 
automobile driven by Geo. Irving in which John Washington and 2 others were 
riding.