The Ouachita Telegraph - 
Cadet Joseph Simmons Disappears from Alexandria Jail

Date: Mar. 2004
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>




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The Ouachita Telegraph
October 16, 1869
Page 2, Column 4

        Cadet Joseph Simmons, (son of the late A.C.A. Simmons, of Trenton,) and who
was imprisoned in the Alexandria jail for shooting a negro, was forcibly
taken out a few days ago by disguised parties and has not since been heard
from.  We hope the young man has not been foully dealt with.

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