The Ouachita Telegraph - Henry Hunt Wounded Attempting to Arrest Suspect

Date: Oct 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, October 22, 1887
Page 2, Column 6

MADISON.
 VICKSBURG, Miss., Oct. 16. – Henry Hunt, a negro deputy sheriff of Madison
parish, La., shot and killed a negro man at Milliken’s Bend yesterday
evening. Hunt was trying to arrest him, and was seriously cut before he shot
the man.

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