The Ouachita Telegraph - Bob Colvin Shot Bob Jordan

Date: Aug 2001
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>



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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, April 20, 1889
Page 3, Column 1

            Bob Colvin, the negro who shot and killed Bob Jordan, also colored, in Henry 
Barnes' saloon at Five Points last Saturday night over a game of craps, has not as yet been 
apprehended.

NOTE:  In the June 15, 1889 Ouachita Telegraph (page 3, Column 1) reports that 
            Colbert Dorsey was charged with the murder of Charles Jordan and William
                Hunter, a "colored bar-keeper, of the place" was charged as an accessory.

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