Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1887 — A Preacher Murdered. [ARTICLE]

A Preacher Murdered.

Sunday, while a colored minister, John DePew, of Sturgis, Miss., a preacher and politician, was speaking to an emigration meeting, another colored man on the outside of the house fired through an open window’aload of buckshot, blowing out bis brains. The murderer escaped. It appears the preacher was about to report the man who did the shooting, for calf stealing, and he and his brother got up the so-called emigration meeting ostensibly for the purpose of discussihg Liberia for their future home, but really to get DePew in a place where they could murder him.