St Landry County Louisiana Archives News.....Murder of Valcourt Galot March 27, 1869
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The Lafayette Advertiser, Vermilionville, Louisiana, Saturday, March 27, 1869, Page 2, Column 3 March 27, 1869
  HOMICIDE-A colored man named Valcourt Galot was killed in Prairie Plaisance,
near our town, on last Wednesday night, by Agenor Durio, under the following
circumstances:
  It appears that Durio had been informed that Galot had threatened to kill him,
which intelligence of course kept him constantly on the qui vive. On Wednesday
night, at about 9 o'clock, Durio, while at home, distinguished a voice calling
upon him from his yard gate, some forty paces from the house, and, suspecting
foul play, seized his gun and left the house by a back door, in order to
ascertain who his nocturnal visitor could be. On recognizing Galot, with a gun
in his hand, he fired upon him, killing him instantly, one of the buckshot
striking Galot's gun with such force as to pierce the barrel.
  Mr. Durio came to Opelousas on Thursday and made an affidavit setting forth
the above facts. - Opelousas Courier.

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