Deaths of Webster Parish

Sept 9. 1894.............Link Waggoner, a noted desperado of North Louisiana, and Eastern Texas, was shot to death in his cell in the parish jail by a mob at 1 o'clock this morning. Waggoner was a perfect type of manly beauty and brave as a lion. For the past five years he had been a terror in that country. Innumerable murders were laid at his door, and his robberies were most daring. He was captured about a year ago at Nacogdoches Texas, brought to Homer, Clayborne County and tried on a charge of murder. The case was not proved against him, and he was sent to jail here for safe keeping to await trial on other charges. While at Homer and attempt was made by a mob to kill him, but single handed having in some unaccountable manner obtained possesion of a pistol --he kept the whole mob at bay while assistance arrived.  Last night the jail here was broken into by a mob of seventy five, which shot him dead and then dispersed, Waggoner has three brothers in Nacogdoches, and it is believed that they will make an attempt to avenge his death. The desperado had a good many friends in this section of the country, and they may also join in a feud which would be a bloody one from the outset.