The Ouachita Telegraph - Robert Carter Accidentally Shoots Two Children

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



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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, October 14, 1881
Page 2, Column 3

 Two little darkies on the Island in this parish fell victims last Thursday
evening to the reckless use of fire-arms common among negroes.  Robert
Carter, a darkey, was chasing a hog and endeavoring to shoot it, his gun
loaded with buck-shot.  The hog, at length, reached a place where Carter
could fire.  Intent on killing the hog, Carter fired, and the hog was
killed.  The two little darkies were off a short distance, but in range.
One was killed instantaneously, the other dying from a wound in the back
shortly after, from the same discharge of the gun.  Dr. Murphy, the coroner
of the parish, held an inquest, and the verdict of the jury was in
accordance with this statement.  When a colored citizen is after a hog,
everybody, children particularly, as well as the hog, should get out of the
way.

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