Franklin Parish News

Through the medium of a friend and subscriber in Franklin parish, we have received the details of a horrible affair which took place on Bayou Macon, about the 4th inst. A trading boat had entered the headwaters of the bayou some ten days previous, and was floating quietly down toward the confluence of the Tensas river, stopping to trade at points along the route. The boat was owned and managed by a Mr. Arbuckle, accompanied by his wife, and assisted by a Mr. Graham. .When she reached a point within, two or three miles of Tensas river, and while Mr. Graham was at some distance from the boat, in a skiff, three disguised men boarded her, killed Mr. Arbuckle in his wife's presence, and made off with the cash—$1500. Our correspondent informs us that he has never seen a community so unanimously indignant .and so deternined to punish criminals. Action was prompt, and suspicion having fallen on Henry A. Lewis and A B and T L Norris young A. B. young men respectively 22, 24, and 29 years of age, warrants were at once obtained, and the two Norris's arrested. Lewis escaped.. These young men belong to the oldest and most distinguished families of the neighborhood. Their fathers are well-known planters and merchants, formerly of great wealth, and still, of the highest standing. They are all grandsons of the late Dr. Samuel Cloud. It seems almost incredible that persons of such character and breeding should have engaged in what the preliminary examination shows to have been a deliberate conspiracy as well as a foul and cruel murder; still our information is such as to leave no room for doubt that they have been at least been suspected and arrested. Lewis however escaping as above mentioned. July 22, 1868 Times Picayune.

Judge T. Crawford and District-Attorney Arthur H. Harris, of the Twelfth Louisiana Judicial District, were assassinated on the 8th, twelve miles southwest of Winnsboro, in Franklin Parish, while on their way to hold court at that place. They were shot seven times and their brains blown out. The murderers were not known, but it was thought that, personal, and not political, differences led to the assassination, as Crawford was a Radical and Harris a Democrat. Sept 18, 1873 Jackson Sentinel.

_The murder of Judge Crawford and district Attorney Harris, near Winnsboro, Franklin parish, Louisiana, on last Monday, is thought to have been committed by a party of desperadoes known as Tom Winn's gang. Their leader was, at the last term of the: court, tried at Columbia before Judge: Crawford, for murder, and was convicted, the prosecution being carried on by Harris. The convict escaped from jail before sentence was passed, and has threatened repeatedly since to kill the judge and the district attorney, Both the unfortunate; gentlemen were highly. esteemed. The people are in active pursuit of the murderers. Gov. Kellogg offers a liberal reward for their arrest. Sept 19, 1873 Iowa Dubuquoe Herald

—On Wednesday, the 11th inst . . Mr. Wm Pierce of Franklin parish, Louisiana, was killed by two of his negro men at his plantation in Beouf Prairie. He attempted to flog them, whereupon they attacked and killed him Dec 17, 1857 Jeffersonian

At Franklin Parish, La., June 6, 1887 Mandy Henderson, a colored woman, was stabbed to death by her four sisters. She had deserted her husband and taken up with a man named Ed. Thomas, but returned. Then she left him again and went back to Thomas. This incensed her sisters who called on her, and when she went to the door to meet them, made the fatal assault. Thomas killed one of the sisters with a club in endeavoring to defend his paramour. Decatur Daily Review

Vicksburg Miss.—Peter Johnson, a prominent resident of Franklin parish, La,, and owner of the Sicily Island plantation, was crushed to death by a falling tree August 8, 1894 Galveston News

A special to the Democrat from Winnsboro, La., says on Monday last Monroe Gullen, living in the lower part of Franklin parish, was shot and instantly killed by his father-in-law, G. H. Dunn. The motive for the act and the particulars are alike unknown. No effort has thus far been made to arrest Dunn, who remains quietly at home. A dispatch from Franklin, La., says two colored boys, Eddie and Aleck Howard, have confessed the murder of Richard O'Neill, aged fourteen, on the 11th instant, in a field near Franklin. They took O'Neill's gun away from him. shot him through the shoulders, then fractured his skull in several places by beating him over the head. Nov 20, 1881 Galveston News