Toche Jenkins Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering John Leckie
Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Lora Peppers

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The Ouachita Telegraph
October 8, 1887
Page 2, Column 5

The Ouachita Telegraph 
Saturday, October 8, 1887 
Page 2, Column 5 

RAPIDES
John Leckie, a white man born and raised at Alexandria and who was in the 
mercantile business just at the edge of the corporation limits, was horribly 
murdered on the night of the 3d. When discovered he was found in the small 
room back of his store on the bed where the body had apparently been placed. 
Blood stains were visible on the floor and bed. The body was resting on the 
bed with the legs over the side and the arms folded over the abdomen. The 
right hand pocket of the pants on the corpse was turned inside out. At the 
foot of the bed was found money to the amount of $29, where it s supposed 
the deceased had placed it for security. Toche Jenkins, a colored man who 
was at Leckie’s store after every one else on the night of the murder, had 
left, has been arrested on suspicion and is now in jail. Blood stains were 
found on his shirt. Leckie was a man of family and leaves a wife and children.