The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-11-14
The Outrage in Grant.
From the Rapides Ctazctte,l

, From the Rapides GazGttr.l
We have been furnished by q reliable
party, with the following statement rela-
tive to the outrage lately committed Oh
the person of a young lady in Grant,
whose family are we'll known as n of
the oldest and most respectable in that
parish, and whose name we for the pres
ent suppress.
Mr.. John II. Sullivan and Mr.. James
Neil, say they saw and cOnversed with
Miss --, and that she told them
that q number OF COlOred men came to
her mothers house and fired into it. that
amongst them was one Hampton Hen
dcrsOn, who some time e committed r.
rape on Il cOlored girl, and then killed
her and threw her body into the river:
that the said Hampton on seeing her.
called out, you are my girl! I've got
you now" and that she ran but that he
caught her, threw her down, and sue
cceded hy force IN violating her person.
brulslng and lnJuring her d%readfully, q
portion OF which injuries they saw,
They state also the male friends of the
unfortunate young creature tried in vain
10 pr0cure a warrant for the arrest of the
Iend, from the authorities in COlfax.
rms Is all we a learn as yet, but we
hope before going to press, to hear of tho
arrest or summary puniShmentOf q mon
ster who has wrought such misery to an
innocent female, and increased so much
the trouble of the times.
Rumors are as thick as blackbirds.
among which are that Ofarrests
nave been made, the majority parOled,
ndSlXO eight fOWi in DURANGO. Anoth-
er is that the U. s. officer in command of
the detachment sent with the expedition.
on being applied to, in the case of the
outrage alluded to elsewhere, replied
that he was pOwerless as an officer, but
thai he would strip off his uniform and
assist as a private citizen in hanging the
mlscreant. Ii this is so that officer is 2
man after our W heart, for be he as
White as a swan or black as q crow, the
wretch In question deserves only the
shortest of shrifts. The time is going
by, and rapidly too, when party spirit
can shield crime Orrascality Ofany kind.
ana we ilalI the fact as an omen of better
times approaching.
We have anlmadverted unreservedly
upon the occurrences which have
brought about this speck of wal in our
community and u opinion in the main
is still unchanged but even by the evil
dence OtcOlOred men themselves greater
p"roVOcatlOn to extreme violence could
not possibly have been given.
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There has been considerable excite
ment i'll town at intervals during the
past week, arising from the reported
dolngs of the State forces, Militia, Met
tTopOlltans or whatever may be their
proper designation whose arrival we
~chronlcled last week, and who after
wards proceeded up the river to Grant
Parish, accompanied by O. detachment
OF the Us troops, which have been en-
camped during the summer at the Semi
nary grounds. Not only were these mn
welcome visitors credited with having
carried out a part of their legal and an
thOrlsed errand, but also were they
charged with q most revolving and hOr-
rlbIe outrage, and measures were taken
as 1t afterwards appeared somewhat
prematurely, to procure military assist
ance III preventing a recurrence of SINH
lar scenes here. Happily for the credit
OF the Pelican Pioneers however. all
these injurious rumors have proved en-
tirely unfounded, and though a most
atrOciOus and barbarOus crime has hepn
undoubtedly committed, those first ac-
Cused OF 1t have been proved to he as
entirely innocent as the most violent of
their accusers, and at the same time the
truth OF the prOverb of hanging or
wanting to hang Il dog with bad name.
mas again beer most fOreiblyillustrated,
lAlexandria Democrat
But whilst in full swing in Grant an
outrage, to which we briefly alluded in
our last, was committed on the person
OF one of the most respectable younp
ladies OF that Parish and we make hold
to assert, and only relterate sound pub-
h%cOpiniOn, that the presence of the Met
trOpOlltanB was the cause of the nnrnn.
tration of the diabolical outrage. and
had it not been for their Illegal and
~h1ghI1anded visit in u waters. we
should never had tOrecord the foul deed,
10 them and them alone belongs the
fearful responsibility, and we hold them
ana their masters responsible for it.
Fhey meyer made the least attempt to
arrest the william, solely because he is o
negro a 1t been a white man, other
than a Radical, the metropolitans wnnId
have manufactured authority FOR the ar
rest: We repeat that we hold them
justly responsible for the outrage.
DISTRICT COURT.-In the case of the
State VS.. yileOr VallOt, for murder.
commenced last week, the jurors failed
to agree on Monday night and a mis-
trial was entered. A change of venue
TO Iberia parish was asked and granted,
The case of State VS.. DOminioue
SA@ AA1O CT ttas5 WIS continued Until
next term of Court. f
The cas- of State VS.. Eloi Cormier
was continued until next term Of Court.
also the case of State VS.. Henry Comeau,
Drozin NJ. Broussard, (the individual
lCho aCas not hung by the vigilance com
mittee OF. Fausse Point, several weeks
ago. who was convicted of larceny last
week was sentenced by the Judge. on
tuesday to twelve months hard labor
IN the State ~Penitentiary. A motion
for q new trial was overruled hy the
Judge. Motion for appeal to the Sn-
preme Court granted.
In the case of State. VS.. Faustin Vim
cent, for murder, motion to quash. the
indictment,
The petit jury was discharged on
Wednesday for this term of Court.
A civil jury case, Labonne Bernard
VS.. TreviIle Bernard, has been occnDy-
ing the attention of the Court since
Tuesday morning, and at the time of
closing our report the case was not sub
mitted to the jury
The Court will adjourn to-day.
I'd Lafayette Advertiser, Nov. Sth.
REMARKABLY STRANGE.-In 1R53 Mr..