The Ouachita Telegraph - 
B. F. Thompson Charged with Killing W. J. Matthews

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



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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, May 14, 1887
Page 3, Column 2

 Sheriff J.E. McGuire left Thursday for Little Rock armed with a requisition
from Governor McEnery for one B.F. Thompson now in custody of the Arkansas
authorities.  Thompson is charged with murder, having killed a man by the
name of W.J. Matthews on the 31st of March last, about two miles above here
on a raft.  Thompson and Matthews were raftsmen, both from Arkansas, and
were taking their timber to New Orleans.  They quarreled about a business
matter which resulted in Thompson striking Matthews in the head with a
hatchet.  Matthews was subsequently carried back to Arkansas where he died
from his injuries.  Thompson will be brought here for trial.

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