Newspaper: Murphy and Brower Murdered; Webster Par., Louisiana
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>
Date: Mar. 2004


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The Ouachita Telegraph
November 29, 1866
Page 3, Column 1

ATROCIOUS MURDER 97 The Minden Sentiment records a distressing occurrence near that place.  
Two men, Murphy and Brower, were watching the carcass of a hog newly killed expecting to catch the thief. 
They had but one gun. Murphy went off about a mile to get another, but when he returned his companion could
not be found.  At last Murphy stumbled over Brower's dead body, his hands mutilated and head nearly 
severed from his body.  His gun and hat were gone.  Dogs were procured and put upon the murder's track.  

The result was the apprehension of Bill Lofton, a freedman, who confessed his guilt and is now in confinement 
awaiting trial