The Ouachita Telegraph - Joe Nettles Killed by Sheriff's Posse

Date: Oct. 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers 




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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, July 18, 1879
Page 3, Column 2

                        OAK RIDGE, July 16, 1879,
        Friend Mac. - Joe Nettles, who killed Kelly at Girard, was killed,
this morning, near here, by Sheriffs posse, Deputy Sheriff Hester was wounded.
                                                              M.
        From Judge Liddell, of Richland, we learn, in addition to the
brief statement of our correspondent, that Sheriff Scott, of Richland, his
Deputy, Mr. Hester, and two other men, as a posse, found Nettles at the house of
Mr. B. Davis, Morehouse parish, about daylight Wednesday morning.  Nettles was
asleep on the gallery of the house at the time, but being aroused by the
barking of the dogs and seeing strange men about, at once sought his
weapons, one a pistol and the other a shot gun.  He made a determined
resistance, shooting Deputy Sheriff Hester with buck shot in the lower
region of the abdomen.  One of the posse shot Nettles in turn, “blowing
off the top of his head,” as our informant states.
        Nettles killed Kelly in Girard last August.  We think, some years
ago he was charged with the murder of Mr. Z. Hanna, of Richland, but was
acquitted.