Vernon County Louisiana Archives News.....Everett Wisby Shoots and Kills Lee Johnson and Jesse Perkins 1932 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary K. Creamer marykcreamer@yahoo.com July 27, 2025, 8:17 pm SourceL Tne News-Starr. (Monroe, Louisiana) Tuesday, September 27, 1932, Page 1 1932 CHURCH KILLINGS NEAR LEESVILLE TRACED TO FEUD. Officers Say Bad Feeling Dates Back Twenty-Nine Years. SHREVEPORT, La. - Sept. 27. - The Shreveport Times today said that Vernon parish officers had related to them a series of disturbances in a feud extending back more than a quarter of a century on which they blamed the shooting to death Saturday night at the Whiskachitta church, near Leesville, of Lee Johnson and Jesse Perkins, young farmers. The coroner's jury late yesterday at Leesville placed responsibility for the death of Perkins solely on the shoulders of Everett Wisby, 24 - year old farmer who surrendered to officers shortly after the shooting and is alleged to have admitted to officers that he killed both of the men. The coroner's jury found that Johnson "came to his death from gun-shot wounds inflicted by Everett Wisby and some other person unknown to us." Wisby was held in jail at Leesville without bond. Pistols flared after the three men had met at the church where a revival meeting was in progress. Perkins was killed outright. CHURCH KILLINGS NEAR LEESVILLE TRACED TO FEUD. Johnson ran into the church in the midst of the firing of pistols and fell mortally wounded after more bullets had been fired into his body. The shooting broke up the meeting. In enumerating events he said led up to the killings, H. L. Barrington, Vernon parish deputy sheriff, pointed back 29 years to the ambush slaying of Huey Wisby while Wisby was working in a field in the Whiskachitta community. He said Walter Johnson, an uncle of Lee Johnson and Bill Williams, a neighbor, were arrested as suspects, but were not convictted. Walter Johnson later was killed in an automobile accident. Several years later, Jim Wisby, the father of Everett Wisby, was killed, Jonathan Johnson, a cousin of Lee Johnson, was arrested in connection with this case and made bond, but did not have to go to trial. Jonathan Johnson was killed and his son Eb Johnson, was arrested as a suspect but was released. Armon Johnson, another cousin of Lee Johnson, was killed in 1926. Reece McAlpin, a Vernon parish deputy, is said to have shot him while Johnson was reported guarding a whiskey still at Whiskachitta, said Barrington. McAlpin later was found dead at his automobile on a highway with a bullet in his body. The casewas never solved. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/vernon/newspapers/everettw864gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb