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Extracted from The Winn Parish Enterprise (Winnfield, LA)
Thursday, February 17, 1938

James Hatcher Dies From Stab Wounds Sunday

Assailant Is Being Held In the Parish Jail Here

James Hatcher, 36, proprietor of a caf[e] in Sikes, La., died Sunday morning in a Shreveport hospital where he had been under treatment since January 6, for knife wounds said to have been inflicted by Tom Sandidge of Sikes.

Mr. Hatcher, formerly a resident of Winnfield, was a star player on the Winnfield football and basketball teams during his high school career, having been graduated from the local high school in 1923.

He is survived by his wife and two children and his mother.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Sikes Church with interment in the Sikes Cemetery. Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the Winnfield Presbyterian Church, officiated.

Sandidge, about 53, who has been in the parish jail here since January 6, awaiting the outcome of Mr. Hatcher's wounds, was convicted in district court several years ago on a charge of robbing graves and served a term in the state penitentiary.