Obituaries: Lud Turner, 1961, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: October 26, 1961 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Stabbing Death Here May Bring Murder Charges

A Winnfield Negro man is dead of stab wounds and authorities are holding two
brothers in jail.

Dead is Lud Turner, L. & A. Quarters.

In jail are L. C. Johnson, 37, and his younger brother, Jimmy Johnson.

Charges of aggravated battery have been placed against each of the brothers,
and Sheriff Sanford Jordan said that District Attorney Sam Wells may change
the charges to murder or manslaughter.

Turner died in an Alexandria hospital on the night of October 18 after he had
been stabbed here on the afternoon of October 15, Sunday.

Jordan said a statement from L. C. Johnson concerning the matter held that:

Turner had made several statements in the neighborhood to the effect he could
whip any man around and made such statements to L. C. Johnson on the afternoon
of the stabbing.

Turner went into a boarding house and returned with a knife and jumped at L.
C. Johnson, slashing him on the arm.

Johnson says he returned the knifeplay with a stab to Turner's head, and that
Turner dropped his knife and the two men knotted up on the ground wrestling
over Johnson's knife.

Johnson said that he cut and stabbed Turner several times during the scuffle
and finally was stopped by his brother Jimmy and other bystanders.