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

"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

"SECOND ARREST MADE OF NEGRO PREACHER IN CONNECTION WITH HUMAN SLAUGHTERS."

Pastor of Crowley Church Held by Officers Until Investigation Is Made, Head of "Christ Sanctified Holy Church" Denies Crime.

Tags: 1912, Chargois, Christ, Church, Crowley, Harrison, Holy, Jennings, King, Lacoste, Lafayette, Louisiana, New Orleans, picayune, Sanctified, Sheriff, Times

"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

"EVIDENCE STRONG AGAINST NEGRESS"

Lafayette Woman Accused of Murder Has Something to Explain - Clothes Stained With Blood - Have Been Identified as Hers and Dr. Metz Says the Stains Are Blood and Brains of Human Beings.

Tags: 1912, Barnabet, Clementine, Crowley, John, Lacoste, Lafayette, Louisiana, Metz, Norbert, Randell, Raymond, Robira, Sheriff, Signal

"THE LATEST NEWS IN ALL LOUISIANA"

Negro Preacher, Heading New Sect, Held in Slaughter Cases - Wholesale Murders Believed Due to Religious Fanaticism - Teachings of "Sacrifice Church" Inflame Minds of Members - Meeting of Order Held Night of Randell Killing Near Scene of the Crime.

Tags: 1912, Barnabet, Bernabet, Chargois, Charles, Church, Clementine, Edward, Harris, Jennings, Lacoste, Lafayette, Louisiana, Metz, New Orleans, Peck, picayune, Randell, Raymond, Rev King, sacrifice, Sheriff, Times, Zepherin

"CHEMIST REPORT ON BLOOD STAINS FASTENS CRIME FOR MURDERS OF SIX ON NEGRESS"

Tags: 1912, Barnabet, Bernabet, Campbell, Clementine, Judge, Lacoste, Lafayette, Louisiana, Metz, New Orleans, picayune, Randell, Raymond, Robira, Sheriff, Times

"NEGRO FAMILY MURDERED"

Norbert Randall and family murdered

Tags: 1911, Advertiser, Andrus, ax, axe, Barnabet, Bernabet, Clementine, daughter, Lacoste, Lafayette, Louisiana, Norbert, Randall, Raymond, Sheriff

"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

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