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

"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

"FOUR NEGROES SLAUGHTERED"

Woman at Rayne and her three children attacked with an ax. - Three arrests made in connection with the case after inquest is held by coroner.

Tags: 1909, America, arrested, ax, daily, Edna, Estelle, George, Louisiana, New Orleans, Opelousas, picayune, Rayne, Washington

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"RAYNE SCENE OF BRUTAL MURDER"

"Sheriff Fontenot believes..."

"FOUR NEGROES SLAUGHTERED"