The Ouachita Telegraph - John Cook and Sol Dorsey Shoot Each Other Date: Aug 2001 Submitted by: Lora Peppers ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, July 27, 1889 Page 3, Column 1 Old Trenton, though, commercially speaking as "dead as a hammer" can occasionally come forward with a sensation. Tuesday night two of her colored citizens - John Cook and Sol. Dorsey by names - became involved in a difficulty as they were returning from church. Both drew their weapons and commenced firing with deadly aim and both fell dead near the battle ground. Cook received a ball in the breast above the right nipple and Dorsey was shot in the neck, the ball ranging downward and going clear through his body and coming out near the junction of the kidneys and spinal column. The origin of the difficulty we have been unable to learn, though it is presumed that a woman and whisky, as usual, is at the bottom of the affair. Dorsey had just been released from jail, where he had been incarcerated for a trivial offense. Who the aggressor was is not known and as both are dead it is immaterial. If the colored population continues slaughtering each other at the rate they have been doing within the past year their ranks will be considerably thinned out within another decade. # # #