The Ouachita Telegraph - Albert Sanford Slain Date: Aug. 2000 Submitted by: Lora Peppers * ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** * The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, March 8, 1878 Page 3, Column 1 Assassination. Mr. Albert Sanford, a young man just married, living on his plantation about sixteen miles below here, was called to his door between 8 and 9 o’clock on Thursday evening, 28th ultimo, and fired upon and instantly killed. There being four distinct reports, it was evidently the work of two men armed with double-barrel shot-guns. Twenty-five buckshot entered his body. No inquest has been filed and we know nothing more than the fact. If any body is suspected it is more than even rumor can detect. We know nothing of Mr. Sanford’s antecedents; do not remember to have seen him since he became a man. But we do know that no matter what might have been his standing among his fellow-men, it could not furnish any justification for such a cowardly means for the perpetration of such a brutal, fiendish and hellish act. Such men as the perpetrators of this deed are a disgrace to humanity, and it is the duty of the citizens in that neighborhood to ferret them out and bring them to justice. We expect it – all good men demand it. No such a diabolical deed was ever committed without leaving some clue to the murderers. A fatality attends crime, and in extending our sympathy to the bereaved we can assure them that soon or late, or in one way or another, “murder will out.” Those men cannot escape, the blood of the slain will cry out against them, the law will be eventually vindicated and justice will have her reward. NOTE: A $500 reward is offered for the capture of the perpetrators in the Friday, April 12, 1878 edition of the Ouachita Telegraph, Page 3, Column 3. # # #