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1.27.1912CrowleySignal(NegroWoman&4Children).jpg
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

1.23.1912Times-Picayune.jpg
Pastor of Crowley Church Held by Officers Until Investigation Is Made, Head of "Christ Sanctified Holy Church" Denies Crime.

1.23.1912Advertiser(NegroFamilyKilled).jpg
Negro Family Killed Tag. Mother and Three Children Brained With an Axe - Similar to Crimes Committed Here.

1.23.1912Advertiser(ArrestedAsSuspect).jpg
In Randall Family Murder, Pastor Harris of Sacrifice Church, Jennings Is Brought Here.

1.28.1912Times-Democrat.jpg
Another Preacher Taken Into Custody, Also, in Connection With Twenty-Six Deaths in Acadia Woman Taken to Lake Charles.

1.27.1912CrowleySignal.jpg
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.

1.22.1912LakeCharlesDailyTimes.jpg
Committed Last Week, Also Bears Similarity To One Committed in Lafayette

1.21.1912Times-Picayune.jpg
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.

1.20.1912Times-Picayune.jpg
Negro Woman and Three Children Found Horribly Gashed in Her Home - Second Similar Crime in That City, and Fourth in That Section
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