Shotgun blast kills Governor’s cousin in Amite
May 11, 1959: “A 35-year-old Independence man is being held in the parish jail on murder charges in the shotgun slaying of Louis Davis, 58, in an Amite bar at 5:40 Saturday evening, May 9, 1959. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Tom Sanders identified the suspect as Claude King.”
Ponchatoula bandit murders Amite gas attendant
John O’Brien died without hearing or seeing his assailant. As he turned, three shots rang out. The first pierced his shoulder and ricocheted off the door frame. The second plowed through his nipple on the right side of his chest. The third shot pierced his heart. O’Brien left behind a wife and seven children.
Geronimo’s guard shot and killed in Amite City
Tangipahoa Parish native Charles Morgan died on April 13, 1902. That bright Sunday afternoon, eight men met in an abandoned house in the woods near the northern edge of the Amite city limits. Charles Morgan, an adventurer, home from the Indian Territory, met friends around a keg of beer to share tales of the Oklahoma prison where he worked, including those of his friend, a Chiricahua Apache leader called Geronimo.
Amite murder, rape predated Hotard-Moate events
Lillie Ford told police her attacker raped her in the woods before running away with her purse. Afterward, the woman returned to the car, pushed the driver to one side, and drove to Shorse’s Medical Clinic in Amite. She arrived at the clinic just before two that morning and phoned the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office. Her companion died on the road.