6 posts tagged Springfield

Century-old Springfield murder remains unsolved

Friday morning, June 22, 1900, 17-year-old Joseph Ray Ott told his Springfield neighbors he found his 68-year-old aunt in a bloody pulp next to her sewing machine, according to The New Orleans Daily Picayune. The case remains unsolved almost 124 years later.

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Sheriff’s murder linked to hanging in Springfield

What are the odds the murder of a traditional old west sheriff in Dawson County, Montana, could lead to a subsequent murder and hanging in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, two years later?

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They don’t lynch in Tangipahoa Parish anymore

Stumping on the parish courthouse lawn in Shreveport on September 31, 1932, gubernatorial candidate Dudley J. LeBlanc said, “They no longer lynch people in Tangipahoa Parish. They don’t have to. Their newspapers do it for them.”

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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.

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