The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-07-31
Robbery and Murder Of Manuel
NWMeX Near shreveport.
STATEMENT OF THE WIDOW.

HGObDeFy ANA uRIENSF Oh VI 1eRRAcE
NWMeX Near Shreveport.
STATEMENT OF THE WIDOW.
From the New Orleans Republican,. "a
The Republican of the seventeenth
contained a detailed account of the kill
ing Of a Spaniard on the Bayou Pierre
road, thirteen miles from Shreveport,
copied from the Shreveport Times Of the
twelfth instant. In the columns OF that
paper the crime was placed to the credit
Of the young men of the neighborhOOd,
who belong to the White League. and
therefore it fully justified their actions.
But for this colOring given to the affair
10y the Times it might be presumed that
this was an ordinary robbery and muir
der, such DIS are of frequent occurrence
in that part OF the country. fOT the sole
purpose of Illicit gain. That the crime
was, in this instance, however, prompted
10y political feeling, the Times is ample
authority.
The White Leagues of Caddo have
seen tit to start into the political cam
paign with the blood of this poor muir
dered Spauiard on their hands. The
story of the crime will go to every city
in the land, and will show reasonable
Itliliil htiiSSs lAttJubIICf(flS Illt lJtIllC-
Gratis. how lit such. IL community is for
sclf-gOvernment what its tone of civil
i%zatiOn; how worthy it is to be the re-
clplent OF government bounty, and to
what hOspitablc graves, with bloody
hands, they welcome the p0u,inmigrant
from abroad. e.
From the widow of the murdered
man Governor Kellogg has received the
following letter, telling its own story: of
the crime with a simple pltIlo$ that
needs 40 comment. e..
NEW ORLEANS, July 20, 1894. !
Governor Kellogg:
Kind Sir-I write YOU this letter as L
think it is my duty as the widow of
Manuel NnntZ. who was killed at CaddO
parish. As no n c3lne to question me.
from Shreveport, | think 1t is my duty
to report il, on cali upon whom It. may
concern, Us | have been robbed and.
driven away from home. ! am Will my
children, sick; | had my son sick with
the typhoid fever at The same time that
| nly husband was killed. "'.': ':
| found if strange that the judge Of
Shreveport did not do his duty to call. at
my house and find out from me. wrote
to him after my husband was killed, but
did not get any answer. | stayed nine
days after in the same house. IsaW the
daily SOuthWcSiCrn-Telegram paper Of
Shreveport On the thirteenth Of July,
asking an opinion. | will write and let
You know how it happened.
We left New Orleans OIL the last Of
March, on u visit to Shreveport. We.
fancitd Il place at Caddo parish, belong
ing to Mr.. p. Willis, and We made It orr
home. We then thought to buy it, and
my husband came to New Orleans to sell
out our furniture and make Caddo par,
iSh our. home. He came in JUNE to New
Orleans, and got back Oh the third of
July, landing at Mr.. James \. BOytUn's
wood landing, two miles from our home.
On the ninth day of July, at dark, Il
gentleman by the name OF s. Sayers
came to the house to bid his cousin, Mrs.
Stanley, goodbye; that he was going,
home to Texas. He told lis cousin, Mrs:
Stanley, to tell my husband to get up
and play the guitar that he was going
away the next day. SO my husband
got Of his bed, and put on his slippers
and went out on the front gallery. He
had just seated himself and began to
tune his guitar when four men rode up
Oh horseback and asked for q drink of
water, Sayels br0ughta bucket and IL
glass, One of the party asked who lived
here. This same Scott SAyeTS said:
Stanley. Before he could s;ty the other
name. one asked, is there ii man living
here named Manuel? My husband got.
UP and said: Il am MaDuel.if. So one
old man said - am: sorry we have
got orders to visit your trunks. that came
on the steamer Texas. They have told
us you have brought arms to anu the
negroes" My husband said: You
are welcome" So they made tme, bring
two trunks ont. They saw what was
in them, so he told them the trunks were
heavy for me to be dragging them, be-
cause | an in a way that | can not lift
heavy things, They told him, ""rNone
OF yom French" He answered, No,
So they drew their cooked reyolvers.
Then my husband said: Gentlemen,
what do you all mean? | am not guilty
Of any crime; | am not armed ;tyOu. iall
asked to examine my trunks ;IhaYe not
refused ; what do you all mean" So
they told him that. they wanted the key
to, the other trunk He went i'll. the
room with them apd got the key. AS
he was going to open the trunk, one of
them asked him, LET me open it," He
turned TO give him the key, and Que
took the key 1anl the other shot him
two, times in the left breast, and anOther
bloWcd out the light, Ny husband ran
out and fell III the back garden Iwent
out and saw more than four men III the
yard Of the house. They went to him
and they saw him lay Us if dead. They
came halck and examined the trunks
again. They took $3.50 and his gun, al
we had, and left me and nay poor chill
dren in distress and destitute until /
got on board of the steamer Texas, and
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