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

"New Grand Jury Will Investigate Mysterious Killing"

Tags: 1912, Alfred, Andrus, Barnabet, Bernabet, Bernard, Clementine, Harris, Harrison, Hebert, Jasper, Lafayette, Louisiana, New Orleans, Norbert Randal, picayune, Raymond, Rev King, Spell, St. Julien, Times

"LIGHTS FOR WEST CROWLEY"

Tags: 1912, Crowley, Land, lights, Louisiana, Promised, Signal

"COLORED CITIZENS"

Pledge Themselves to Give Best Assistance in Bringing to Justice the Axe Murderers.

Tags: 1912, Advertiser, Campbell, Chapman, Good Hope Baptist Church, Judge, Lafayette, Louisiana

"NEGROES ALARMED"

Attempts to Enter Homes at Night Continue, No Clue to Miscreants.

Tags: 1912, Advertiser, enter, Grove, homes, Lafayette, Louisiana, night, sleep, time

"BRUNER TAKES OFFICE"

Assume Duties of District Attorney at Crowley Tuesday, Expresses Appreciation of Responsibilities.

Tags: 1912, Advertiser, Attorney, Bruner, Crowley, District, Howard, Lafayette, Louisiana, Robira, Signal

"TWO ARRESTS IN WARNER MURDER"

Negroes Taken by Officers in Rapides Parish Monday - Held In Close Confinement - Names of Suspects Are Not Given and They are Closely Guarded in the Parish Jail - Long Chase for Fugitive.

Tags: 1912, Burt, Clark, Crowley, Louisiana, Lyman, Parish, Rapides, Signal, Warner

"PREACHER CAUGHT IN HOMES AT NIGHT, QUOTES SCRIPTURES WHEN SURPRISED"

Tags: 1912, Abraham, Church, Democrat, Jennings, Lake Charles, Louis, Louisiana, Nelson, New Orleans, preacher, Sanctified, Sheriff, Times

"TWO MORE HELD FOR AX MURDERS"

Negroes Suspected of Connection With "Church of Sacrifice" and Fanatics' Crime It Is Blamed For, Are Caught at Glenmora

Tags: 1912, ax, axe, Church, Clark, Crowley, Fanatics, Glenmora, Lake Charles, Louisiana, Rapides, sacrifice, Sheriff, Times Democrat, W.T. Burt

"WOMAN ARRESTED"

By Crowley Officers - Held in Connection With Murder of Negro Families There

Tags: 1912, Advertiser, Crowley, Eliza, Fontenot, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Louisiana, Richards, Sheriff

"WHOLESALE MURDERS CAUSE PANIC AMONG THE COLORED INHABITANTS"

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People of the coontown are in a state of terror and do not dare to sleep - Twenty-six have been slain within the past year and no clue has been discovered to any of the crimes.

Tags: 1912, Crowley, Eliza, Joseph, Lafayette, Louisiana, Richards, Robira, Sanders, Signal, Wilkins

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