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"WOMAN ARRESTED"
By Crowley Officers - Held in Connection With Murder of Negro Families There
"WOMAN ARRESTED"
By Crowley Officers - Held in connection with murder of Negro Families there.
"WOMAN ARRESTED IN NEGRO MURDER"
Another Preacher Taken Into Custody, Also, in Connection With Twenty-Six Deaths in Acadia Woman Taken to Lake Charles.
"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.
"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
"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.
"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.
"SUSPECT IS ARRESTED"
Walter Jackson, a colored barber taken into custody Monday. Charged with being accessory to the murder of the Byers Family - hist brother is already under arrest for the crime.