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"BRUNER TAKES OFFICE"
Assume Duties of District Attorney at Crowley Tuesday, Expresses Appreciation of Responsibilities.
"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.
"WHOLESALE MURDERS CAUSE PANIC AMONG THE COLORED INHABITANTS"
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.
"NEGRO WOMAN AND FOUR CHILDREN MURDERED IN CROWLEY LAST NIGHT."
Ghastly Crime Discovered in a Hut in Western Part Of The City - Family Of Four Had Been Brained With An Ax - Coroner's Jury In Session But There Is No Clue To The Murderer
"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.
"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.
"COLORED PEOPLE IN STRONG STAND"
Declare that they will give aid in bringing murder to justice - Leading element have say - Condemn the crime and say that the tendency among colored people to conceal and protect criminals is wrong.
"BRUTAL MURDER OF NEGRO FAMILY IS DISCOVERED IN WEST CROWLEY"
Mutilated remains of Walter Byers, his wife and son found in a cabin this afternoon - heads had been crushed with an ax - crime was evidently committed several days ago - no clue to the murderers.