The Louisiana Intelligencer,
April, October, December 1868,
Ouachita Parish La

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The Louisiana Intelligencer
Wednesday, April 22, 1868
Page 2, Column 1
Murder in Morehouse.
Franklin Sinclair, who was one of the candidates to represent Ouachita
parish in the lower
branch of the Legislature of this State, was killed near Linngrove, on
Wednesday last, in the parish of Morehouse, while riding along the road, in
company with another colored man. There is mystery in this foul deed, and
as murder will out, we hope soon to be able to place the facts before our
readers.
The murdered man was one of the best educated colored men in the community,
had excellent qualities of head and heart, was a friend both to the whites
and colored.

The Louisiana Intelligencer
Wednesday, May 13, 1868
Page 2, Column 1
W.R. Meadows, late a member of the Constitutional Convention, was killed a
few days since at his home in Claiborne Parish by unknown persons.

The Louisiana Intelligencer
Wednesday, August 5, 1868
Page 3, Column 1
DROWNED.-On Sunday evening a colored boy named Jack, attempted to swim
across the river and to return without stopping, but having over estimated his
strength, he sank before reaching this bank to rise no more.-His body was
found on Monday and an inquest held, when a verdict in accordance with the
above facts was rendered.

The Louisiana Intelligencer
Wednesday, August 12, 1868
Page 2, Column 1
No honest man is in danger of either life or liberty.-Telegraph.
To illustrate the above we have to chronicle this week the arrival in town
of a colored man from near Boeuf River with nine buckshot in his back, also
the shooting of two white men near Rayville on Tuesday night of last week.
We were unable to learn, any particulars relating to either affair. One of
the white men named Thomas Daily was found dead in the road leading into
Rayville and the other Heber was shot on the gallery of his house, by a gang
of unknown men. The Mother-in-law of Heber thought she recognized Daily as
one of the men engaged in the shooting of Heber.

The Louisiana Intelligencer
Wednesday, September 9, 1868
Page 3, Column 1
LYNCHED.-We learn that a colored man named Puck Magee was hung last week in
especially as a sore affliction to Free Masonry-we bow in humble submission
the neighborhood of Crew Lake, for committing a rape on a white girl.

The Louisiana Intelligencer
Wednesday, October 21, 1868
Page 3, Column 1
MURDER-On Wednesday evening about half past six o'clock, as the train from
Delhi stopped at Crew Lake, the fireman, a colored man named Mitchell, was
assassinated by some unknown persons. It seems that as Mitchell stepped
from the locomotive to go to the tank for the purpose of letting on the
water, five or six shots were fired, killing him almost instantly. One of
the passengers states that he saw several men walk off into the bushes
immediately after the shots were fired. This was without exception one of
the most dastardly acts it has ever been our painful duty to chronicle.


The Louisiana Intelligencer
Wednesday, November 11, 1868
Page 3, Column 1
Trouble at Filhiol's
The following is as correct a statement of the trouble at the Filhiol box,
on the day of
election, as we have been able to get. Everything went on quietly and
nearly two hundred votes had been polled when the commissioners started to
dinner; on their return, they found that about thirty strange white men on
horseback, accompanied by one colored man, and fully armed, had arrived in
front of the polls. On reopening the polls, a colored man voted a
Republican ticket and the crowd of strangers being informed of it
immediately called on the colored man in their company, whom they called Bob
Stiff, to pitch into him. Stiff immediately knocked this colored man down
with a stick, but after he had been struck once or twice, the man succeeded
in making his escape. While this was going on a difficulty occurred between
another colored man and the strangers, who were about to kill him, when Mr.
P. Carrington interfered and saved his life at the risk of his own. Shortly
after this the party of strangers mounted their horses and rode down the
road; they had been absent but a short time, when some firing was heard in
the direction they had taken. On their return they stated that a colored
man named Culpepper, in Mr. Filhiol's field, had fired at them and that they
had killed him in consequence. In proof of this, they exhibited a stick in
which some shots were lodged. At night there was considerable apprehention
of difficulty among both races, but nothing serious occurred, excepting the
burning of a schoolhouse belonging to the colored people on the Bres
plantation and of the corn crib, with twelve hundred bushels of corn on the
Faust Plantation. A colored man whose name we have been unable to learn,
was shot in the mouth. That night about fifteen colored men came to town
for protection, which was extended to them by the Sheriff. On Wednesday
warrants were issued against a number of the men, who were said by the
colored men, to have been implicated in the difficulties of the night. On
Wednesday night, Sheriff Wisner and Mr. Dobson acting as his deputy, with
some cavalry, started down to arrest the accused whom they brought to town
on Thursday. The prisoners immediately gave bonds for their appearance for
trial on Friday. On that day the case was continued until Monday.
On Friday three of the principal witnesses in the difficulties of Tuesday
night, named Simon Peterson, Daniel Webster and Orphey Johnson, all colored
men, started down the river to go to their homes, and stopped on the Copley
Plantation for one of them to see his wife, when they were taken out of the
cabin by a party of eleven white men. Four of the white men took them to
the deadening (?) In the rear of the plantation and there told them to kneel
down and say their prayers as they would be killed. Instead of doing this
they broke and ran, when fire was opened on them by the whites, and Peterson
and Webster were killed, but Johnson came to town on Friday evening about
dark and his story created a great deal of indignation among all classes of
our community.
Mr. Duffel, who has charge of the Copley plantation, makes the following
statement as to what occurred prior to taking the men out of the cabins: The
white men came riding to his house furiously and stated that they had been
fired on by some negroes from the corner of the fence and that the negroes
had hid themselves in one of the cabins and unless they were brought out
immediately, they would burn up the quarters. Mr. Duffel went to search for
the negroes and found them hid in the loft of one of the cabins, a shot was
fired at him, said by the colored men to have been by accident, when he told
them they must come down or the cabin would be burned up with them in it.
The negroes then came out and were taken away by the four white men, as
stated by Johnson. The names of these four men are Pinckney Faust, Marion
Faust, Beaver and John Faulk.
Warrants were issued on Saturday for the arrest of the four accused and on
Sunday morning Sheriff Wisner started out with a posse for their arrest, but
did not succeed in finding any of them. The bodies of the two killed
colored men were found on Sunday afternoon by some colored men, together
with the dead bodies of their horses.
The case of the parties, arrested by Sheriff Wisner, was continued on
Monday until Thursday.