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Note: !BIOGRAPHY: ChroniclingAmerican.loc.gov/v/lccn/sn88064323/1920-08-21/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=08%2F01%2F1836&index=0&date2=8%2F31%2F1922&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&lccn=sn88064323&words=THERIOT+Theriot&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=theriot&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1 Newspaper Weekly Iberian, (New Iberia, La.,), 21 Aug 1920: J. A. LUCUQUETTE KILLED BY ALBERT THERIOT, FORMERLY OF NEW IBERIA, IN PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS. PORT ARTHUR, Tex., Aug. 19.-- J. A. Lucuquette, 21, was shot and killed about 4:30 this afternoon and Albert Theriot, about 18, is in jail charged with the killing. The tragedy occurred under the shed on the street car right of way at the Seventh street gate to the Gulf Company enclosure. Six shots were fired, all of them taking effect, three in the head, two in the back and one in the right hand. Following the shooting, Theriot fled toward town and later was apprehended at the First National bank corner by Mr. Adcock and turned over to the police at the station. The body was taken in charge by J. E. Grammier and has been prepared for shipment to Jeanerette, La., former home of deceased, for interment. The shooting, according to Theriot, who talked freely of the matter when seen in his cell at the jail, was the direct outcome of trouble of nine months' standing between the dead man and members of Theriot's famiy. Nine months ago, Theriot said, white Lucuquette was a boarder at the home of Theriot's half brother, Frank Darby, Darby and the man killed today engaged in a fisticuff following Darby's allegation that Lucuquette had affronted Darby's wife and mother-in-law. Lucuquette then left Darby's home and took up lodgings at 245 Dallas Avenue, where he has roomed since with J. A. Verret, a cousin of Darby and Theriot. No further trouble occurred until the night of the 16th, when the three men met on Austin Ave., and after an altercation on the sidewalk, Darby fired several shots at Lucuquette. Both parties were in police court the next day and Darby was fined for discharging firearms in the city limits, while Lucuquette paid a find for disturbing the peace. According to testimony, in these cases, Lucuquette was the aggressor on this occasion. In his statement this afternoon, Theriot claimed that as he and another half-brother approached the street car shed, Lucuquette approached and threatened him with violence, and that he acted in self defense when he drew his gun and began firing. He declared that he was in fear of Lucuquette, and that he had armed himself because of that fear. Only two others besides the slayer and his kinsman are known to have seen the shooting, and officers were unable to reach them tonight. The inquest will be held tomorrow by Justice W. F. Jones.
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