Obits:  The Ouachita Telegraph 1873 Obits, Morehouse parish excerpts
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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, September 6, 1873
Page 2, Column 2
MOREHOUSE.
[From the Republican, 28th.)
A COLD BLOODED MURDER. — James Folson, an honest, industrious colored
man, was shot down near his home on Saturday evening.  He owned and
cultivated the Magruder place.  Had been to Bastrop on Saturday on some
business and as he returned was waylaid on the road some half mile from
home by some cold blooded assassin, or assassins, who lodged twenty-
eight buckshot in him.  Contrary, probably, to the expectation of his
murderer, or murderers, Providence spared his life till his wife and
some friends reached the spot.  He made to them some dying declarations
and expired.  The testimony before the Coroner's Jury, and other
circumstances, implicated Mr. Thomas Y. Elton and Mr. Columbus Hayden in
the murder.  They are now undergoing a preliminary examination before
Judge Wheeler and we forbear for the present further comment.