Here’s another article that I found mentioning my 2nd great-grandfather Jerome E Richards. This article was in the July 20, 1901 edition of the Atlanta Constitution. I’m not familiar with the murder(s) mentioned, though. I Googled it, but nothing popped up, so I may call Lee County, Arkansas to find out more!
SIX PERSONS WERE MURDERED.
Arkansas Sheriff Confirms the Story of Wholesale Slaughter.
Memphis, Tenn., July 19-(Special.)-
Chief of Police Jerome Richards today received a letter from Sheriff M. H. Ford, of Lee county, Arkansas, confirming the news of a wholesale murder in a Mississippi river chute below that point. Six person have lost their lives. Sheriff Ford says that M. F. Vogus, the head of the murdered party, had about $1,000 on his person. Sheriff Ford hopes to land the murderers in jail.
