The Ouachita Telegraph -  Mrs. Ward Murdered

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



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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, October 17, 1879
Page 3, Column 1

        Mrs. Ward, living on the Farmerville road about nine miles from
Trenton, left home alone last Saturday evening to visit a neighbor three 
or four miles distant, expecting to remain over until Sunday evening.  
Failing to return at the appointed time, Mr. Ward started to learn the 
cause of her stay.  In crossing the Choudrant bridge he saw her body in 
the bayou.  Her throat was cut, there were several knife wounds in the 
breast, one on the thigh and one eye had been put out.  The body showed 
signs of having been defloured (sic).  Up to Tuesday no clue to the 
perpetrators of the hellish crime had been discovered.  The neighborhood 
is greatly excited and every possible means adopted to find out the guilty 
parties.
        Mrs. Ward was the daughter of Mr. Carmichael, of Tuskeege, Ala.,
and much beloved by her friends and acquaintance.

NOTE:  “Inquest on the Body of Mrs. Ward.” Friday, October 31, 1879, Page
3,Column 2.

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