Extracted from The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
Sunday, April 11, 1875

A DEPUTY SHERIFF IN GRANT PARISH.
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He Catches a Tax Collector and is Eluded by Calhoun, the Notorious.
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On last Saturday, Deputy Sheriff Gill was detailed by Sheriff Fagan to make the arrest of Albert Hawthorne, tax collector of Grant parish, and the noted W. S. Calhoun. W. S. Calhoun and Albert Hawthorne were indicted by the last Grand Jury for forging a money order of acquittance and publishing the same.

It appears that Olivia Williams, a colored woman, got a judgement, in May, 1874, against Calhoun for $20,000, and the latter, in collusion with Lane and Hawthorne, forged and published a satisfaction for judgment. Lane was released on bond, and Sheriff Gill was dispatched after Calhoun and Hawthorne.

Leaving the city on Saturday last, on the Bart Able, he disembarked at Colfax landing, and going directly to Hawthorne's house, arrrested [sic] him in a neighboring field, and in spite of hostile demonstrations by the negroes, among whom the Tax Collector is a leader, conveyed him to the boat, where he was confined, while Gill proceeded to Judge Shackelford's, where Calhoun was staying. Here he was informed that Calhoun had gone away, and a further search after the forger was unsuccessful.

It was apparent that he had been forewarned, but being generally hated by the people of the parish, his arrest can be easily effected. Hawthorne was taken to Natchitoches and thence to Alexandria, where Judge Osborne issued a writ of habeas corpus for Hawthorne, which did not effect any result, he being at present comfortably lodged in jail.