Obituaries: James Hatcher, 1938, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: February 17, 1938 Winn Parish Enterprise

James Hatcher Dies From Stab Wounds Sunday

Assailant Is Being Held In the Parish Jail Here

James Hatcher, 36, proprietor of a caf‚ in Sikes, La., died Sunday morning in
a Shreveport hospital where he had been under treatment since January 6, for
knife wounds said to have been inflicted by Tom Sandidge of Sikes.

Mr. Hatcher, formerly a resident of Winnfield, was a star player on the
Winnfield football and basketball teams during his high school career, having
been graduated from the local high school in 1923.  

He is survived by his wife and two children and his mother.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Sikes Church with interment
in the Sikes Cemetery.  Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the Winnfield
Presbyterian Church, officiated.

Sandidge, about 53, who has been in the parish jail here since January 6,
awaiting the outcome of Mr. Hatcher's wounds, was convicted in district court
several years ago on a charge of robbing graves and served a term in the
state penitentiary.