The Monroe News-Star - Railroad Forman named Connelly Shot by Dr. B. S. Fluitt

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




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The Monroe News-Star
Monday, August 8, 1910
Page 4, Column 4

KILLED BY DOCTOR.
Section Foreman on the Louisiana Central, Shot.
Columbia, La., Aug. 8.-It has just been reported here that Dr. B.S. Fluitt, 
a prominent physician of the Ninth Ward of this parish, shot a man by the name
of Connelly at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The details of the affair are meager 
and it is not definitely known what the trouble was between the two men.
Connelly was a section foreman employed by the Louisiana Central company of 
Clarks, this parish, on a team road which that company is building through the 
western portion of this parish, and is said to have boarded at one time with 
Dr. Fluitt.
Late this afternoon the news came that Connelly was dead. An order for a 
coffin to be delivered in that vicinity seems to confirm the reports as to the
results of the shooting.

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