Winn County Louisiana Archives News.....Tom White Murdered By Unknown Last Saturday March 29, 1919
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The Monroe (LA) News Star March 29, 1919
Details of the assassination of Tom White at Atlanta, La., last Saturday, were 
learned today through Louis Evans of this city, who is a brother-in-law of the 
murdered man and who visited the scene of the tragedy and attended the funeral 
at Atlanta last Monday, burial being in the cemetery at that place.

Tom White, who was about 43 years of age, came originally from Robelare, La., 
and spent five years in this parish in the employ of the Grayling Lumber Co., 
residing part of the time in West Monroe and at the Grayling mill.  He was a 
man of quiet disposition and is survived by his wife and nine children, one of 
whom is the wife of Wheeler Mitchell of West Monroe.  At the time of his death 
he was in the employ of Germain & Boyd Lumber Co., of Atlanta, as engineer of 
their log train, having moved to Atlanta about six weeks ago.

   Tom White's dead body was found lying near a negro gambling joint in Atlanta 
about 11 o'clock Saturday night, where he had gone about an hour earlier with 
Sam Lanier, a machinist in the employ of the mill , to summon a negro 
blacksmith and his helper for the following morning.  White and Lanier were 
supposedly close friends and had been together that evening.  Lanier remaining 
at White's home until 10 o'clock, when the two went off in quest of the 
negroes.  Lanier is reported to have gone into the house and commenced gambling 
with the negroes, White remaining on the outside waiting for him.  Lanier, it 
is said, became involved in a quarrel with one negro and left threatening to 
return and blow the place up.  Shortly after he emerged from the building a 
shot was heard and Lanier is said to have returned to the joint and announced 
that White had been killed by some one whom he saw running away.  White was 
shot through the left temple with a 38 pistol, his face being burned from the 
discharge, indicating that his assailant was close to him at the time he was 
shot.  It is thought that he was killed with his own weapon, which was wrested 
from him and found nearby.

   Lanier is also alleged to have gone to Ben Allen, colored, who conducts a 
soda stand near the scene of the tragedy and whispered to him, "White is 
dead."  Lanier was arrested Monday, charged with the crime and placed in the 
Winnfield jail.  A negro man and two negro women were also arrested and are 
being held as witnesses.

Additional Comments:
John Thomas "Tom" White was buried in the Atlanta Cemetery.  His wife Lollie L. 
Noble White moved herself and the children to Ouachita Parish to be near her 
family.  Tom and Lollie had the following children:  Docia E.  Lillie M., 
Blanche Katie, Hattie L., James Randle, Mollie D., J.T., Odell, Walter and 
Ethel.  Wife Lollie is buried in the Hasley Cemetery in Ouachita Parish.

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