The Ouachita Telegraph - Jim Star Kills William Jones

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




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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, May 14, 1880
Page 3, Column 1

The “Coon” and His Little Pistol.
        Last Sunday evening De Siard street was for the second time within
the past fortnight, the scene of another fatal encounter.  Two young negroes, 
Wm. Jones and Jim Star, became involved in a difficulty about a negress, and,
after the exchanging angry words for a while, Star evidently imagined that
matters had gone about as far as they should, and accordingly brought his
little revolver into requisition, sending two bullets into Jones, from the
effects of which he (Jones) died in a few minutes.  The coroner’s jury
brought in a verdict of unjustifiable homicide.  The killing occurred in
the extreme eastern portion of the city which is know as “Guinea.”  Star
languishes in the “city hotel” on St. John street.

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