The Ouachita Telegraph - C.W. Stauffer Killed in Natchitoches

Date: Mar. 2004
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>



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The Ouachita Telegraph
June 13, 1867
Page 2, Column 2

  The New Orleans Picayune has particulars of a terrible tragedy in
Natchitoches, which resulted in the killing of C.W. Stauffer, formerly of
New Orleans, by John Jones.  Judge Robert B. Jones, late of the Supreme
Court, and his brother, Dr. Jones, were also parties to the affray.  The
sheriff, John Hughes, was wounded on the head in attempting to make an
arrest.  Judge and Doctor Jones are both in jail, but John Jones was at
large at last advices.  How the quarrel originated is not known, but it is
thought from some business transactions between John Jones and Stauffer, who
had been till recently partners in Business in Natchitoches.  It is also
surmised that the Joneses desired to get rid of Stauffer, he being the most
prominent Radical candidate for the Convention, a position one of the
brothers seemed to covet on the same ticket.
  Mr. Stauffer was a member of the Convention of 1864, and afterwards
appointed by Gov. Wells Register of voters for New Orleans.
  Judge Jones was a member of the Legislature of the same year, but resigned
upon the receiving the appointment of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
from Gov. Wells.

  NOTE: The June 27, 1867 edition of the Ouachita Telegraph, Page 2, Column 1
announces a $1,000 reward offered by Gov. Flanders for the capture of John
Jones.

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