The Ouachita Telegraph - Ed Hathaway Acquitted in Killing of Brother-in-Law

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

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, October 12, 1877
Page 3, Column 1

        Ed. Hathaway was tried at the recent term of the District Court in Bossier
for murder, and was acquitted by the jury.  He was charged with killing his
brother-in-law.  Hathaway is the man who, just before the election, shot and
wounded two freedmen near this city, was arrested by the citizen soldiery
and brought to jail charged with an attempt to murder.  He was ironed in
jail, but managed to get out in a general jail delivery.  The chain around
his leg, however, retarded his flight, and he was recaptured and put back in
prison.  He was then taken to Bossier on the charge of which he has been
acquitted.  He is a very cool, daring fellow.  What the authorities of
Ouachita will do in his case, or have done, we are not informed.

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