The Ouachita Telegraph - Hope Jones Stabs Parson Isaac Walker

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

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, November 1, 1878
Page 3, Column 1

        Last Saturday night Hope Jones stabbed Parson Isaac Walker at Judge Baker’s
plantation on the Bayou DeSiard, and from the effects of the wound Parson
Walker died.  There had been trouble between the two men for some time, and
it appears that Walker had been pursuing Jones for some time previous to the
killing.  They finally met and had a rough and tumble fight, the result of
which was that Jones used an old worn-out butcher knife on Walker, cutting
him near the neck, and Walker bled to death before a surgeon could be had.
Parson Walker, from what we can hear, was clearly in the wrong.  Jones and
Walker are both colored men.

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