The Monroe News-Star - Katie Clark and Will Mallory Shot to Death

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




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

TWO NEGROES KILLED.
Man and Woman Shot to Death at DeQuincy, Louisiana.
DeQuincy, La., Aug. 1. - Two negroes were shot and instantly killed 
here Saturday night by unknown parties, presumably as a result of the bitter 
feeling existing in some quarters against the negroes who were brought here 
to work for the Frisco Railroad.
The dead negroes are Will Mallory and Katie Clark. They were 
sitting in front of one of the tents in the contractor's camp when a volley 
of shots were fired through the tent from out of the dark, killing them both 
almost instantly.
Friday night a white man was assaulted here by a negro and badly 
beaten. This coupled with the ill feeling against the negroes who were 
brought here by the Frisco to work, is evidently responsible for the 
trouble. Things are quiet at present but additional racial trouble would 
not come as a surprise.

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