Obituary - Charles M. Henry

The Louisiana Intelligencer
Wednesday, July 29, 1868
Page 2, Column 2

ASSASSINATION IN FRANKLIN PARISH.

Some six weeks ago Dr. Curtis was killed by a young man named Charles M. Henry, in Franklin Parish, and after an examination before a Magistrate Henry was discharged on the ground of having committed the deed in self defence.

We now learn that on the evening of the 15th inst. Henry was sitting in the house of Mr. Eddin, on the Winsborough and Delhi road talking to Miss Eddin, to whom he was engaged to be married, when some unknown assassin fired through the window killing him instantly. A second shot was fired by the assassin barely missing Miss Eddin, on whom Henry had fallen after being shot. To show the deliberate manner in which the Ruffian who committed this outrage went to work, we would state, that in order to reach the window through which the shot was fired, he rolled an empty barrel some distance across the yard, stood it on end and laying a plank across the head, stood on it and carried out his intention. No clue had been found at last accounts.

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