Tom White Inquest, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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An Inquisition taken at Atlanta, Winn Parish, Louisiana, March 23rd, 1919,
upon view of the body of Tom White, there lying dead.

We the Jurors of this inquest having been sworn to inquire on behalf of the
State when and by what means the said Tom White came to his death, upon this
oath do say:

"That this said Tom White came to his death at Atlanta, Louisiana, March 22nd,
1919, from a gun shot wound, the gun in the hands of an unknown person."

In testimony whereof, we the Jurors of this inquest have hereunto signed our
names the day and year above written..

J. J. Peters, M. D. 
Dy. Coroner

J. M. Ferguson
A. Bell
M. H. Eldridge
K. A. Thomas
O. B. Bice

ATLANTA, LOUISIANA, March 23, 1919

Dr. John Pugh sworn, says:  Last night about 11:45 o'clock Mr. Grimmett called
me over the telephone and told me that Tom White had been shot up in the
Quarters and for me to come by the Hotel and he would go with me; when we
reached the gambling shack he was lying dead on the outside of the building
with a gun shot wound in the left temple about two (2) inches from the eye.  I
do not know who killed him.

Signed:  John Pugh, M. D.

Jack Broussard, sworn, says:  I was up at the gambling shack last night.  I
was in the room where they were gambling.  I saw a white man come in and
gamble with a colored man the white man losing twenty dollars ($20.00), the
white man wanted the colored man to shoot twenty dollars, and the colored man
refused to do that and the white man got mad an dsaid he would brake up the
game, and  he went out of the room and we were afraid he would shoot in the
house.  And we all left the room to the white man, went out on the side of the
room and we went out at the front door.  This occurred about twenty-five or
thirty minutes before Tom White was killed.

Signed:  Jack Broussard (X) His Mark

Filed March 27th, 1919, and Recorded this the 8th day of March, 1920.

Eugene Beck
Dy. Clerk & Ex-Officio Recorder