Bradshaw

Shot through screen door sealed killer’s fate

No roads led to Cameron in the 1920s, but that didn’t keep crowds of people from gathering there for the trial of the man newspapers called “the pivotal figure in the worst crime ever committed in Cameron Parish.”

Ned Harvey was accused of killing Archie A. Byrd and John Springer at a trapper’s camp at Johnsons Bayou on New Year’s Day 1925. Harvey was a trapper who lived in Orange, Texas. The victims were fur buyers for the Brown-Rosenthal Fur Company of New York, which leased thousands of marshy acres in coastal Louisiana.