Sam Brown Shooting, 1934, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the July 13, 1934 Winnfield News-American

Ex-Convict Negro Kills Another Near St. Maurice Monday


Clarence Davis, negro ex-convict, is being held in the parish jail here on the
charge of shooting and killing Sam Brown, another negro, near St. Maurice
Monday night.

Sam Brown and his two brothers, Cleveland and Emmett Brown, were visiting the
Davis negro when they became engaged in an argument, it is alleged, and in a
scuffle Davis discharged a single barreled shot gun at close range, the shot
entering Brown's left side just above the heart causing instant death.

Sheriff Bryant Sholars was called and he immediately took into custody the
alleged slayer and brought him to Winnfield where he place him in jail to
await court action.

(The above submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)