1898 Daring Burglary in Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 12/2006



************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
************************************************
 



==================================================================================
==================================================================================
1898 Daring Burglary in Union Parish Louisiana

From the Farmerville "Gazette"; issue of Wednesday, 6 April 1898, page 3
==================================================================================
==================================================================================

   We received news over the telephone Tuesday morning of a daring burglary that 
occurred in ward 10 of this parish Sunday evening about 8 o'clock. While Mr. O. P. 
Johnson and his family were at the supper table, a burglar entered his house and 
carried away a trunk containing $100 in cash and about $500 worth of notes. Mr. 
Johnson has an idea who the  miscreant was, and is on the lookout for h im. Evidently 
he was well acquainted with the habits of the family and the surroundings of the house. 
We learn that Mr. Marion Gaskins, of the same neighborhood, was robbed under similar 
circumstances a few weeks ago. His trunk was carried away and the money extracted 
therefrom. The trunk was afterwards found where the robbers left it in the woods. 

   Since the above was put in type, we learn that the trunk has been found, but 
the cash and a lot of tobacco was missing. Most of the other contents were in the 
trunk. Two negroes named Newton Jensens and  Commodore Cage were brought to town 
Tuesday under suspicion of being the burglars, the evidence against them being 
circumstantial.



###############################################################################