People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — A WATERMELON TRAGEDY. [ARTICLE]

A WATERMELON TRAGEDY.

Three Men Poisoned and the Poisoner Is Murdered. Magnolia, Ark., Sept. B.— Near Dykesville, La., just across the Arkansas state line, Clinton Thompson, a farmer, has a fine melon crop. Raids by boys became so frequent the old man put poison in some of the finest melons and awaited the results. Thursday morning his son Felix, George Bridges, a neighbor's son, and a man named Jocob Muir were found dead in the patch. The neighbor whose son was among the victims was the iirat to discover the deid bodies and called Thompson out to show him the corpses. When Bridges learned that Thompson had poisoned the melons and caused the death of his son he drew his revolver and shot him dead.