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Kenneth R. Thompson - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Evening Post, September 7, 1936

TALLULAH BOY KILLED BY HIT AND RUN DRIVER

Kenneth R. Thompson is Fatally Injured when Struck By Truck

TALLULAH. La. Sept. 7---Kenneth R. Thompson, 18, of Tallulah was killed instantly on 
the highway four miles west of here Sunday afternoon when his bicycle was struck by 
a hit-and-run truck driver.

Young Thompson delivered papers for his widowed mother, who is local agent for the 
Shreveport Times.

Residents in the neighborhood, where the accident occurred, reported to officers of 
having seen the boy on the bicycle, and then seeing the truck approach-being driven 
in a reckless manner. After the truck passed they said they did not see the boy and 
rushed out to the road where they found his badly mutilated body.

Deceased is survived by his mother, and two sisters, Mrs. W. A. Swihart of Tallulah 
and Mrs. E. L. Wright of Alto, La.

Funeral services will be held in Tallulah this afternoon at 5 o'clock, with the 
Reverend C. K. Smith, Methodist minister, officiating, assisted by the Reverend 
Clarence Crow, Baptist minister. Interment will be in the Silver Cross Cemetery.

Local officers learned this morning that a man was being held in Winnsboro, La., who 
may be the driver of the truck which killed young Thompson.

The man held was said to have been driving a truck, and was alleged to have hit two 
autos before reaching Winnsboro.

Officers left this morning for Winnsboro to see if the man held there is the one 
wanted here.