The Ouachita Telegraph - E. L. Pierson Killed by J. H. Cosgrove

Date: Jul. 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>



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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, December 31, 1875
Page 2, Column 3
        
Hon. E.L. Pierson, member of the legislature from Natchitoches
parish, was killed last Sunday in the town of Natchitoches by J.H. Cosgrove, Esq.,
editor of the Vindicator of that place.  The difficulty orginated (sic) in a
newspaper controversy, in which the epithets of coward, &c, were exchanged.
Pierson was a Kelloggite, Cosgrove a Democrat.



The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, January 7, 1876
Page 1, Column 6

        From a letter dated at Natchitoches, December 28th., written by Mr.
Willis Holmes, a merchant of that town, and addressed to Mr. H.B. Warmsley, 
of this city, the following is taken:
        “E.L. Pierson was killed by J.H. Cosgrove about 9 o’clock in the
morning and fired three shots at him.  Cosgrave (sic) then obtained a pistol and
shot Pierson as he ran; the ball entering the back near the shoulder and
resulting in death in half an hour.” –
N.O. Picayune.

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