The Ouachita Telegraph - George Robinson, Charged with Killing of Millard F. Parker, Lynched Date: Oct 2000 Submitted by: Lora Peppers ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Ouachita Telegraph Sunday, February 21, 1886 Page 1, Column 5 A LYNCHING PARTY. At about 11:30 o’clock last night a large body of men variously estimated between 150 to 200, marched into the city from various directions and proceeding to the machine shop of M. J. Duty; forced that gentleman to furnish them with a sledge hammer, procuring which they then proceeded to the jail and began battering down the door. Sheriff McGuire and his deputies Mess. Brooks and Simpson, were in the Sheriff’s office in the Courthouse at the time and when they began battering down the doors went over to the jail, but they promptly covered them with guns and emphatically informed them that they had better not attempt to interfere, as business was meant and they were liable to get hurt for their interference. After gaining admittance to the jail they went to the cell wherein was confined George Robinson, colored, charged with the killing of Millard F. Parker on the night of December 11th, last year and took him out. They then started off toward the east end of town and when near the freight depot of the V.S. & P.R.R., adjusted the noose and swung the prisoner into eternity. The facts of the killing of Millard Parker are yet fresh in the minds of our readers and it is unnecessary to review them here, neither is there any use to express an opinion, on which, everybody familiar with the case is competent to do. # # #