The Monroe News-Star - Robert Cheatwood, Railroad Watchman, Shot

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




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The Monroe News-Star
Monday, May 16, 1910
Page 1, Column 4

Watchman Killed at Simsboro.
Ruston, La., May 16. - Robert Cheatwood, a watchman in a lumber 
yard at Simsboro, eight miles from here, on the Vicksburg, Shreveport 
and Pacific railroad, was shot and killed early today while he was 
making his rounds in the yard.
The assassin used a shot gun loaded with buckshot. No clue to 
the assassin.

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