The Monroe News-Star - Louis Williams Kills Peck Thomas Date: Dec. 1999 Submitted by: Lora Peppers ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Monroe News-Star Monday, June 27, 1910 Page 5, Column 5 Louis Williams, a negro, was jailed here Saturday for killing Peck Thomas, another negro, at Quebec, eight miles west of here, last night. A brother of Thomas was having a dispute with Williams over a trivial matter when Peck admonished his brother to quit quarreling. Williams then turned his attention to Peck and shot him twice without warning. Bad blood is said to have existed between them for some time. Williams caught a freight train, that passed a few minutes after the killing, and was captured at Rayville. He was brought back by Sheriff A.J. Sevier on the same train that carried the corpse of his victim, the latter being buried here. # # #