Browse Items · Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders

"Sheriff Fontenot believes..."

Tags: 1909, arrested, ax, Clark, daily, Fontenot, George, Louisiana, Marshal, New Orleans, Opelousas, picayune, Rayne, Sheriff, Washington

Negro charged with the murder of the Andrus Family last February found guilty.

Tags: 1911, Advertiser, Andrus, Barnabet, Bernabet, convicted, conviction, February, Lacoste, Lafayette, Louisiana, Raymond, Sheriff

Baymond Barnabet in jail charged with murder of negro family here last February.

Tags: 1911, Advertiser, arrested, Barnabet, Crowley, Lacoste, Lafayette, Raymond, Sheriff, suspect

By Sheriff Fontenot for Rayne butchey - family of five brained in San Antonio last week.

Tags: 1911, Advertiser, arrested, ax, brained, butchery, Fontenot, Guidry, Lacoste, Lafayette, Louisiana, negro, Rayne, San Antonio, Sheriff, Texas

Tags: ax, brained, Crowley, Fontenot, Guidry, Lafayette, Louisiana, New Orleans, picayune, Rayne, September, Sheriff, Times

Whole negro family of four brutally murdered while asleep in their beds.

Tags: 1911, Advertiser, Alexandre, Andrus, Clark, Coroner, Lacoste, Lafayette, Louisiana, Mimi, Rayne, Sheriff

Fugitive from Pineville Asylum believed to have butchered victims at Lafayette - similar to recent Crowley assassination.

Tags: 1911, Alex, Anders, Anges, Asylum, ax, butchered, Crowley, daily, escaped, Felix, Gaston, Godfrey, Lacoste, Lafayette, Louisiana, New Orleans, Ninie, picayune, Pineville, Poachim, Sheriff

Tags: 1909, capture, Clark, daily, doctor, Fontenot, fugitive, hoodoo, Louisiana, Lyman, Marshal, New Iberia, New Orleans, picayune, Rayne, Sheriff, Woods