The Monroe News-Star - Ed Hart Shoots Genie Hammett in Gibsland

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




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The Monroe News-Star
Monday, November 7, 1910
Page 8, Column 2

TRAGEDY AT GIBSLAND.
Liveryman Kills Well Known Carpenter.
        Gibsland, La., Nov. 7.-The town was thrown suddenly into intense
horror and excitement at 8 o'clock Saturday when pistol shots rang out
unexpectedly and it was learned that Ed Hart, who runs a livery and feed
stable at this place had shot and instantly killed Genie Hammett, a well known
citizen and carpenter, who has lived here for a number of years, in fact was
raised in our city.
        Some personal difficulty, unknown to the public, has been existing for
some time, but as the inquest has not been held, the facts in the case are not
known.
        Both men have large families, Mrs. Hammett being left with eight
children, most of them small and entirely dependent.
        Hart left for Arcadia to surrender to the sheriff.

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