Newspaper: John Morgan Murders Son of Lewis Stewart and Morris Brown; Webster Par., Louisiana Submitted by: Lora Peppers Date: Oct. 2000 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, December 16, 1882 Page 3, Column 2 A DOUBLE MURDER A most brutal double murder was committed in this parish on Saturday the 3rd inst. By a man named John Morgan. He had a man with him by the name of Crump who seemed to enjoy the sport. John Morgan went to the house of Lewis Stewart, a colored man, to buy a beef, and after the beef was dressed and delivered to Morgan, he told him that he never intended to pay for it, and was about to leave when a son of Lewis Stewart picked up Morgan’s gun, and told him that he would keep the gun until he paid for the beef. Morgan then put the beef down from his wagon and demanded his gun. Seeing Morgan begin to insert other cartridges in his gun the young man fled. The old man stepped out and said: “Please don’t shoot my son.” At which Morgan turned and shot the old man, killing him instantly. He then went to the store of W.W. Jackson where he saw a colored man named Morris Brown sitting on a bale of cotton. He raised his gun and said I have killed one nigger and now will kill another, and immediately shot and killed Morris Brown. It is said there is a reward for him for committing a murder in Texas where he resided last year. He was raised in this country, but went to Texas where h resided for a few years, and returned here about a year ago. He and his man Crump are suspected to be the men that robbed the stage last winter, as they answer well to the description, and live only a few miles from where the stage was robbed. It will be remembered that the men who committed the robbery were not traced out of the parish. He is supposed to be yet in the country. The sheriff and his posse are still searching for him. Webster Tribune. NOTE: Morgan was killed by a posse of citizens in Sabine parish (Saturday, January 20, 1883, page 1, Column 6)