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Note: Newspaper article about murder of "Cam" Coffin from the Crowley Signal:
Obituary dated July 11, 1906
The Crowley Signal
Marshall E. C. Coffin, of Jennings, defenseless and unarmed, was shot and killed almost instantly at 8:00 pm last night when a Negro, Vivian Bootie, resisted the officer who had previously ordered the black man to leave town. Posses, one from Crowley, searched for the criminal, who escaped, temporarily, H.L. Davis, agent for the Southern Pacific, barely escaped injury or possible death at the hands of the Negro. Bootie is now lodged in the jail at Lake Charles, Louisiana.
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