Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — Lynchers Seek a Negro. [ARTICLE]

Lynchers Seek a Negro.

Since John Gray Foster, a planter, wan shot and killed by Prince Edwards, a negro employed on the Footer plantation, five miles east of Shreveport, La., armed posses of white men have been out trying to capture Edwards. A dozen or more negroes are under arrest In Kennebrew’s store, and what fate may have In store for them is uncertain. Footer was widely known and popular. He was a brother-in-law of Gov. McMillin of Tennessee, and belonged to one of the oldest families tn that state.