New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-11

I other that tbav ouaht 20 have killed me
where they sesv n,e. Jake told them that
/. if thew had done what be told them, never
would have got home. some sel9 GO Jne
! Others; why he knows all about IT, How
/ do Won know p they said. .'WhY, he's done
/ oSt { connie Of scares now This was said
4 bv Jake. staid on the gallery, and one Of
1 item said: We've done lost good chance,
! now. give me a knife or q razor; we've got
to pick fuss with him, anyhow One
said: You amt going TO do anything,
give me the knife. The st0ck-minder,
Sam, was going to the house with a
gun to mind the garden, and went along
With him. The Btock-minder talked very
kind to me- and told me knew the room
Mr.. Cole staid in. He asked ME if I was
going to stay all night, told him that ]
was not going to stay, but that / was going
back to the store directly to get some
things. ] told him ] was going back, to
throw him off his guard. He knew all
about it at the store for the crowd told
aim when they came up to the store. The
crowd came along behind me and the stock
minder, about half an hour afterward.
was sitting en- the gallery and everything
was still. The crowd asked the stock
hinder where | was. He told them l was
at Mr. Coles room. One said, "I'lI bet
he amt Iii bet he's gone. If yon hadn't
started with him he never would have rot
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coming back to the store IF had known
he was going to stay all night over there, I
could have fshOt himigOing up the steps,
Then the crowd said, "We'n 20 ever and
see If he's there. That's what he came mp
here for, to get out Of the way, but wen
have him out Of there One fellow said
Nl'll get him out Of theren Another said
Don't shoot him, but let's take him pris-
oner, and take him in the woods and chop
him in pieces, and get an armful Of COW
hides and hang him up" Then they said,
Lets all 90 into the house together
One said, .'I'll 90 I'M Another said, THAT
man is bound to fight to the LAST Then
they said, HE can't fight us all" They
came. up to the gallery and laid around
until they thought / was asleep. They
would come to the window on tiptoe and
listen, and when they heard me move they
would 60 away. This lasted four hours
was standing at the window when one came
to the window and whispered, ssNhere's |
DickF' thought he had got into the room
and reached over the bed to feel, and
touched Mr.. Owens and woke him up. AIr. |
Owens got up and asked me what was up
all night, raising a row for / told bin I
nothing Thought if I told him he would /
get excited and notlet me stay in the room. /
be said he wanted the door left open I
When he laid down again, / went out on /
the gallery. l was walking up and down /
the gallery, uneasily, and saw them lodging /
around the house. I could hear some wins I
peTing going on. Three of them jumped /
on me out of the entry and stab
bed me. ! moaned and made noise,
but nobody came to my assistance. The
three who stabbed me went across the
bridge, | think When they got on the
bridge, they said, HThat viii do for him
this time. After / was stabbed ] got thirsty
and started down to the branch to get
some water. just as ! was going down
three fellows jumped from under the
house, caught me, opened my pants and
nutilated me. As soon as they finished
hey ran across the bayou, and when they
cot over to the bridge they mad big laugh
With q crowd that seemed to be waiting for
hem over there They said, HDamn him,
we've got bin now" I came back on the
gallery and sat down a little WHILE then
vent back to Mr.. Watson's door. It was
Kennedy Blue who said that he would take
ne out of the house when the crowd was
alking to the stoek-minder across the bayou
recognized Hemp Iveys voice across the
layou. Dick Lacey was with the crowd
u the time. Monroe Brown was one Of
hose who was talking at the store. George
'atsey or Anderson was in the crowd at
be store and talking about tt
The sheriff and coroner, upon hearing of
bis outrage, took the necessary steps for
rrestlng all parties engaged in it. They
1eceeded ia getting eight who it is be-
eyed viii be implicated in the affair some
iav or other After a preliminary exami-
alton before his honor, Judge Cordill, the
blowing persons were remanded to Jail to
wait the condition of the man Clarke,
-ennedy and Spencer Blue, George Patsev
nd Jordan Broadly, ali colored
Clarke's subsequent determined efforts
eofamIt suicide, may somewhat cOmpli
ate the affair, but certainly, If those men
ID commit the foul act with which they
ave been charged, hanging would be a
erciful death compared TO what they
lonid suffer. There is no question but the
eed has been committed The member IL
1ne. Who did it Clarke can't or won't