The Louisiana Intelligencer - Boy Named Jack Drowns

Date: Dec. 1999
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>




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The Louisiana Intelligencer
Wednesday, August 5, 1868
Page 3, Column 1

DROWNED.-On Sunday evening a colored boy named Jack, attempted to swim 
across the river and to return without stopping, but having over estimated his 
strength, he sank before reaching this bank to rise no more. - His body was 
found on Monday and an inquest held, when a verdict in accordance with the 
above facts was rendered.

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