Mob Took Negress From Louisiana Jail
- Title
- Mob Took Negress From Louisiana Jail
- Source Type
- Newspaper
- Publisher
- The Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot
- Publication Place
- Bryan, Texas
- Publication Date
- 07/26/1910
- Transcript
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Belief Is That She Was Taken to the
Ouachita River, Thrown In and Drowned.
—Monroe, I. July men broke into the city jail here early and carried off Laura Porter, a negro woman prisoner, keeper of a resort where white men are reported to have been robbed on several occasions. It is generally believed she was thrown into the Ouachita River and drowned. - Sources for
- Laura Porter