Southern shield., 1858-10-09
From the N. o. Bulletin of the 2d. More About the Desperate.

we puOllSncd sOmetnln6 or the tragedy referred to below, yesterday but further and interesting particulars are here given, and, as moral that ought to be needed everywhere is in volved in it, we publish the following account of the transaction from the Abbeville (Parish of Vermilion) Me- radaonaI of the 25th ut. The three persons charged with killing Lebleu, it has already been stated, were taken to Opelousas by a change of venue granted by the District Court of Cal casieu Parish, and the next day after their arrival were set a liberty--we presume by competent authority:
 Bloody Tragedy- Tardy but Retrlbutive Justice.-A great crim- inal offender, Paulin c. Lebleu--the cold blooded murderer of Ewing and Parsons--the cold-hearted wife se- ducer and kidnapper-the lawless des , perado of the parish of Calcasieu, who once dared and did force his own ne- gro slave to sit on the bench of the District Court of that parish during Court time, and in derision of the pre- siding Judge-has at last met with that fate he so richly deserved. As to the particulars of his death, we are indebted to the politeness of S. Bel den, Esq, who has just returned from the Court of that parish /; and we here give them as communicated to us by that gentleman.
 On Monday, the 18th instant, the District Court commenced its regular session at Lake Charles, the seat of Justice in the parish of Calcasieu.-- Everything about town indicated that deep under current was at work for some purpose unknown to strangers :; for the Western wing of the hotel dis played in fine order and good keeping many double barreled guns, pistols, and bowie knives. Like implements of warfare were also conspicuously visible in the Courtroom. Things remained in that state until Wednes- day morning, at which time Paulin c. Lebleu, coming in from the country, rode up to the rack of the hotel, descended from his mule, and started towards the house with a pair of heavy dragoon pistols across his left arm, besides a repeater and bowie knife in his belt. He had almost reached the steps of the west wing of the hotel, when he was shot from the front of the very same steps, four different times, by man named Eugene Foux and several others, who all had been the victims of tho lust and other de- pravities of Lebleu. Each discharge was deadly. His right arm was aw- fully mangled four buck shot pene- trated through his neck, one through his right breast, one through the lower part of his abdomen, and the balance -as he turned at the first fre-took effect in this shoulders and back. It appears that he received from thirty five to forty buck shot through the most vital portions of his person.
 Lebleu expired almost instantly.- And thus closed the life of one whose earthly career has been stained with blood and ruin, all of which could have been prevented, if those intrusted with the administration of justice in that parish had only performed their duty fearlessly and regardless of conse- quences. We are told that from his early manhood Lebleu prided himself in the violation of the laws of his country in the most outrageous man. ner, and that none ever dared to ar rest him for doing so. Probably some immaculate officials will look upon this assertion as libelous but we care not. And we say boldly, although with re- gret, that whenever criminals are per mitted to escape, either through the leniency of the juries, technical defects in the indictments, absence of the wit nesses, and many other means-then let popular justice be done.
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 A BANDIT KILLED.-The Iberlan of St. Martins parish in its last issue, has the following singular paragraph :
 We learn from a person who arriv- ed here from Opelousas, a few days since, that the notorious Colin Lebleu was killed in the Courthouse at Cal casieu by some two or three citizens, who were authorized to that effect by the authorities of the place. He is represented to have been the terror of St. Landry and Calcasieu, his word being law in any matter he considered necessary to use his authority. We are told that on one occasion he forbid the Judge to hold court in Calcasieu, and actually, by pointing a pistol at him, made him leave the bench .- Such characters generally meet with violent deaths, and the community are satisfied with the happy riddance.
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