New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-08

e. O. D:sLSE:Es
Secretary .: EqsoGo e9Bcp
4 STATEMENT TO TIE PUBLIC

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mo:e active ASSISTANCE % gle 0..ce.s .: s6e .ay
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Aoh sece.se,! a: TIE EEscee.Vs Department.:
es 81 assus gle Syen:v.e.sats Ca. q sc Ssse.
S3-;. BODY Ct persons. Ses"ns. 10 seIIa .r.ss
9h.S 0r:aa:zasoS knc,s4 IS gre Who leag.e q
louisiana Assembled a It's Sous Il cc,.shatta,
PARISH OF RED EiyeS IN SIS s.a:e. 70. the 2u-pose
q eompelYng.ts 9n:ce % a:sns sAe S:a:e e:E .s:s
ct ;aaf ya:!aa 20 5esigB 5ie.r rOs4e.cass
shese@i:cers Sese NEE .: good e:.a.a6..s ness
81 s.en :ars e:y Interested "a pant. aid me: .ate
s!se pursuits 9Ies is:d :hew POSITIONS with :!4e
Assconsens o: ar admittedly :A<se majority u ::e
e ga: So:e1a cg tie parish. :i.s Beng : Largely
Republican parish. as sdm.::e: Sses " .Le f1..as
se:x-r:Ag boards
3te~l'Y known otiees'cn - 3eu .s.e q as they
we're Of REPUBLICAN, pr.n.i PIES. frank S. gIserton.
tie day qualified s!e:.S OF ;te parish. in G:rics
compliance WITH tie Jaws OF ts!s s.a.e, and o: the
United States. sun.inone! Jesse com.ta:ss Of c.:
Aens. white and corei. TO .ss:s: him IN project.
81 Tie par:sE atce.s "a the exercise q their III.
Lo.b:ed rights and dates from :ie threatened tile
:aw:,ls violence OF Sc white Leagues HIS posse.
consisting o: s.2ty.fye mens was oveTpowered by
a superior force assembled from, tie adjacen: par.
.sies. and finally. after se~era: cc'orec anSwkite
nea had bee. k.!.ed. surrendered themselves prs
es,e:s. VISA she ex?ic: s:araa:ee tina: their lives
would Sc spared il :he more prominent Repub.
scans wo.i1 sgree % :eave size parish. and chose
:.'.c.ns ofce wo::d .es:ga then positions.
these stipuiatfors. though unIawful:- exacte3.
wee complied WITH On the part of the Republican
officials. who were ..es :ocke1 So -. she TAI: for
the night.
Tie following canned perso.s were au..s those
50 surrender.ng and resgnils:
Homer J. Tw.:eneif. planter and tag collector O.
Red River. ard dep.ty United States postmaster
g. Charge of tie postofce at coushatta. Robert A.
Devices, supervisor Of registration, De Soto parish.
Clark Holland, merchant aad supervisor Of -eeis.
tratione Red River parish We j. howell parish
attorney and united states commissioner Prank
S. Edgerton. sheriff Of Red River parish: NJ. G.
Willis, merchant and justice of tie peace.
On the following morning, Sunday the tbirtfeth
day OF Augusto these persons were bound and
conducted By az armed guard to the Mcfarland
Plantation, Just over the parish line Of Red River
within the boundaries Of Bossier parish. abont
were set upon and deliberately murdered in c"id
blood. Their bodies were buried near whera +ba1
tel, without inquest or any Formally whstever.
On me night preceding the surrender a BODY of
parish, mounted and armed, LETT the citv Of
Shreveport and were seen riding in the dirrc+:on
of the place where the murder was subsenuentiv
se37p Sove9no..