1877 Shooting of Archy Walls near Farmerville, Union Parish Louisiana
Submitted by:       T. D. Hudson
Date of Submission: 1/2008

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1877 Shooting of Archy Walls near Farmerville, Union Parish Louisiana

From the "Ouachita Telegraph", issue of 9 February 1877, page 3, column 2
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"A negro man named Archy Walls was shot and instantly killed by some unknown party, at the 
residence of Judge W.R. Roberts, near this place, yesterday morning.  Walls had been in the 
employ of Judge Roberts for some time, and the night previous to his death had quarreled 
with another negro named Martin Fields, who recently came here from Monroe.  Fields was 
heard to make threats against the life of Walls, and soon after day-break yesterday morning 
Judge Roberts and family were startled by the report of a gun in the yard, and hastening to 
the scene, found Walls weltering in his blood and life nearly extinct.  He was unable to 
make any statement and there were no witnesses to the deed, but there is not the slightest 
doubt on the minds of our citizens but that the negro Fields perpetrated the crime.  He 
(Fields) has not been seen in this vicinity since the occurrence. - Union Record."

"Martin was pretty well known in Monroe, not as a desperate character, but as a big, black, 
wide-mouthed fellow, with large feet, who did small jobs for Mr. J.G. Sanders at his store. 
Martin came to Monroe a fugitive from Arkansas, where he was a deputy sheriff under the 
benign rule of Clayton, in which capacity he was guilty, it was charged, of malfeasance in 
office, a fact not known here until he reversed his politics - from Radicalism to Democracy.  
It was then that our sheriff, Hamlet, arrested Martin, and then those big black feet carried 
him off.  He is a tall, gangling, loose-jointed black, with red eyes, wide mouth, laughs all 
over his face and will laugh at nothing.  Look out for him. "


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