In Vicksburg, a disgruntled former employee shoots newspaper editor dead on the street

William D. Roy, the editor of the Vicksburg Weekly Sun, had accused employee Daniel J. Sheppard of theft.  He had him brought back from Louisiana and examined in magistrate's court in Vicksburg.  When the court cleared Sheppard of the charges, Roy repeated them in a Sun column, bringing the enraged Sheppard to shoot Roy through the heart on the corner of Washington and Clay streets in the middle of the day. (By John Osborne)