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

"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

"WOMAN ARRESTED IN NEGRO MURDER"

Another Preacher Taken Into Custody, Also, in Connection With Twenty-Six Deaths in Acadia Woman Taken to Lake Charles.

Tags: 1912, Church, Crowley, Democrat, Eliza, Fontenot, Lake Charles, Louisiana, New Orleans, Richards, sacrifice, Sheriff, Times

"RAYNE SCENE OF BRUTAL MURDER"

Negro woman and three little children hacked to death - Motive for crime a mystery - Woman and her little ones were cruelly assaulted with an axe - Sheriff Fontenot arrests two negro women on suspicion.

Tags: 1909, ax, Clark, Coroner, Crowley, Edna, Fontenot, George, Louisiana, Lyman, Marshal, Opelousas, Rayne, Sheriff, Signal, Washington, Webb

"Sheriff Fontenot believes..."

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

"NEGRO ARRESTED"

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

"A negro has been arrested"

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

"HOODOO DOCTOR CAPTURES"

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

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