The Monroe News-Star - Milton Cleaney Shoots Vincent Chambre

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




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The Monroe News-Star
Thursday, June 23, 1910
Page 8, Column 2

A Fatal Fight Over Children
Springville, La., June 23. - Milton Cleaney, a young merchant 
of Port Vincent, shot and killed Vincent Chambre at that town 
Monday, and came here today and gave himself up. Chambre is a 
middle-aged man with quite a large family.
It is stated here that the trouble arose over difficulties 
Cleaney had had with the children of Chambre and that the latter 
laid in wait for Cleaney and startel (sic) to heat (sic) him 
with a club when the fatal shots were fired.

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