Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Russell Brooks hanging

  • The Crime and Execution? of John Loslo/Leslie

    Years ago, I compiled a list of all legal executions that happened in Ouachita Parish. Earlier this month, I was going through the online papers of Edward Livingston in the…

  • Legal Executions in Monroe

    All of these were hangings and all were given a trial and found guilty. Whether they were or were not guilty for the crimes they paid is left to history.…

  • Journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint part VI

              This sort of Arcadian simplicity and equality at Ouachitta is a transmitted remain of the olden days of the country, that is, forty or fifty years since.  I was…

  • Russell Brooks/Morrow: The First Man Hung in Ouachita Parish?

    The Ouachita Telegraph, Saturday, May 13, 1871, Page 3, Column 2 First Man Executed in Ouachita. Two weeks ago we stated, upon information, that a man named Leslie was the…