The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Horrible murder.

--Dr. Williamson, a very wealthy planter of Assumtion, La., was murdered on the 16th inst., by Henry and Frank, two brothers of his wife whom he had adopted, having no children of his own. They had quarrelled with him in the morning. The New Orleans Bee says:

‘ In the evening, Dr. W. went out to visit a patient, taking with him his little negro boy. On returning, just as the boy was raising the bar to let the carriage in, two men rushed forward. While one seized the bridle of the horse, the other asked if it was Dr. Williamson who was in the carriage. On receiving a reply in the affirmative he discharged six barrels of a revolver at the Doctor, who fell bathed in blood. The little negro fled, and when the noise of the firing attracted the attention of the household, Dr. Williamson was found stretched on the earth in the agonies of death, having received four balls in different parts of his body. Suspicion falls on the brothers Henry and Frank, especially as the former, when accused of the deed, replied in his confusion: ‘"It was not I that fired at him; it was my brother."’ Both have been arrested. Public excitement is at the highest pitch, and special constables have been appointed to guard the prison and prevent the accused from suffering the rude and summary justice of Judge Lynch.

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