The Ouachita Telegraph - 
Stephen Galloway and Molly Broadnax Jailed for Murder of Doctor Broadnax

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



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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, May 20, 1882
Page 3, Column 1

 The body of a colored man known as Doctor Broadnax was found in a slough in
front of the Pargoud upper place a few days ago.  Broadnax had been missed
several days.  He had whipped his wife in the field Monday and Tuesday.
Tuesday night he disappeared.  Dr. Murphy, parish coroner, held an inquest
on the body, and it was found that the neck of the deceased had been broken
and that there were other marks of violence on the face and body.  There
were strong suspicions, the jury found, that Broadnax had been murdered by
Stephen Galloway, another colored man, and Molly Broadnax, the wife of the
deceased.  Both are now in jail.  Molly Broadnax is a white woman.

NOTE:  Galloway was found guilty without capital punishment. (December 9,
1882, Page 3, Column 1).

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