The Louisiana Intelligencer - Man Named Mitchell Assassinated

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




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The Louisiana Intelligencer
Wednesday, October 21, 1868
Page 3, Column 1

MURDER-On Wednesday evening about half past six o'clock, as the train from 
Delhi stopped at Crew Lake, the fireman, a colored man named Mitchell, was 
assassinated by some unknown persons. It seems that as Mitchell stepped 
from the locomotive to go to the tank for the purpose of letting on the 
water, five or six shots were fired, killing him almost instantly. One of 
the passengers states that he saw several men walk off into the bushes 
immediately after the shots were fired. This was without exception one of 
the most dastardly acts it has ever been our painful duty to chronicle.

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