The Ouachita Telegraph - Thomas Parker Shoots Peter Bolden

Date: Apr. 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>




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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday April 23, 1870
Page 3, Column 1

        ANOTHER MURDER. — Thomas Parker, colored, charged with the homicide of
Peter Bolden, colored, had a preliminary examination before Judge Caldwell
on Thursday.
        The deceased was shot through the chink of his house — two boys sitting by
him were wounded; one dangerously, the other slightly.  The balls and shot
taken from the door-facing are similar to those found in the gun and
shot-pouch of the accused.  The track to and from the house of murder
corresponded with the patched sole of a shoe in possession of the accused.
        The evidence is circumstantial but so pointed as to leave no doubt upon the
mind as to his guilt.
        He was remanded to prison without bail, until delivered in due course of
law.

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