"A negro has been arrested"
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Title
"A negro has been arrested"
Subject
S. Guidry, a negro, has been arrested by Sheriff Fontenot on the charge of murdering a negro woman and her three children with an ax at Rayne in September 1900. A similar wholesale murder was committed at Crowley a few months ago and another at Lafayette recently. All three of the murders were committed with an ax. In the Crowley case three were killed and in the Lafayette killing five persons here brained with an ax.
Description
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Creator
The New Orleans Times Picayune
Source
James D. Wilson Personal Collection
Publisher
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Date
3-25-1911
Contributor
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Rights
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Relation
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Format
microfilm
Language
English
Type
newspaper
Identifier
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Coverage
New Orleans, Louisiana
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Citation
The New Orleans Times Picayune, “"A negro has been arrested",” Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders, accessed May 14, 2024, https://whodidit.omeka.net/items/show/9.