Ouachita Telegraph - Edward Lawson Dies in Drug Store

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




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Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, November 4, 1871
Page 3, Column 1

 Edward Lawson was found in Lignoski's drug store, last Saturday morning, 
in a dying condition.  He had been in Monroe but a few days, and had been 
drinking immoderately.  Friday night he was permitted to sleep in Lignoski's
warehouse.  During the night he entered the store and procured two
bottles of () bottle of port wine.  He drank all the wine and about
three-fourths of the brandy. — When found, he was in a stooping posture,
hanging by one arm, which had been caught in the railing surrounding
Flanagan's watch stand, and was so near dead that no means of
resuscitation could prevent his death shortly after.  Deceased was a
printer, and claimed to have recently come from California.  His remains
were decently interred in the Cemetery.

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