The Monroe News-Star - Otis Casey Kills John Parker Date: Dec. 1999 Submitted by: Lora Peppers ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Monroe News-Star Monday, August 29, 1910 Page 1, Column 4 OTIS CASEY SLEW PARKER FORMER WAS ATTACKED BY PARKER WHO WAS ARMED WITH KNIFE. DEADMAN QUARRELSOME Angered at Caskey Because Latter Did Not Return Immediately Saw Which He Had Borrowed from Parker's Wife-Parker Said to Have Admitted He Was in Wrong. Shreveport, La., Aug. 29.-A special to the Times, dated Jonesboro, La., Aug. 27, says: A shooting affray occured (sic) yesterday morning at 7 o'clock, in the Liberty Hill neighborhood, eleven miles west of this place, in which John Parker, aged about 48 and Otis Caskey aged about 24 participated, with the result that Parker was shot in the chin and breast with a load of buckshot and died at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, while Caskey escaped unhurt. >From information obtained by your correspondent through parties who arrived in this place today, and who visited the scene of the trouble, yesterday, it seems that Parker and his wife had not been living peacefully together for some time, and as a result Parker has been more or less ill-tempered, and several things had happened which caused bad blood to exist between Parker and his neighbors and it appears that he became reckless at times and made use of bad language and threatened several parties at different times with violence, among whom were some of his wife's relatives. On the morning of the tragedy, Caskey had borrowed Parker's cross-cut saw of Parker's wife. Parker being absent. When Parker returned and found that his saw had been loaned to Caskey, he became so enraged that he sent after it at once and failing to get it as soon as he thought necessary, he proceeded to go after it in person. When he had reached a point about half way between his residence and Caskey's he met Caskey coming with the saw, and began to abuse him, commanding that he get on down to the house at once and hang the say up where he got it. Caskey threw the saw upon the ground, saying that he did not feel like taking any of Parker's abuse, as he had been treating him like a gentleman and didn't feel like being treated in such a way, and it is alleged, that at this point, Parker attempted to get at Caskey with a knife, but Caskey dodged the blow and made his way back to his home and got his shot gun, stating that he was going back down there and try to reason things with Parker and see if the matter couldn't be settled without trouble, but when he came back to where Parker was, Parker commenced again to abuse him, and made a rush at him with a knife. Caskey waited till Parker was at close range before firing, the shot tearing away part of the chin and lodging in the breast. Parker then walked to his home, about three hundred yards distant, but refused to allow his wife to come about him, stating that she was the cause of all the trouble. It is said that Parker made statements before his death to the effect that he was mostly to blame for the trouble which resulted in his being shot. # # #