New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-11
News FROM the Interior.

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the mouth by spider or fly few days
| before her death. No one considered it
! serious until her sutferings caused phy-
| sIcian to be sent for. when it was too late.
| The case is said to be ono OF genuine
| charbOn.
| There was bal at Mr.. Edward Higgiu-
bothams in Coulee Croche, last Saturday
night. AS usual. six-shooters were part OF
the male guests toilet. They were deposit
ed on the bed while the owners were dane
| ing. Mrs. Higginbotham's child went to
sleep; and IN removing the pistols. to lay it
on the bed, one Of them dropped from its
| holster, and on striking the floor, fired.
| shooting Mrs. Hlgginbotham in the thigh.
| The wound is not considered dangerous;
| but when last heard from the efforts OF
the surgeon to extract the ball had failed.
The man who was lynched, as reported in
! this paper last week. after hanging day
or two, was taken down and buried. Our
| enterpTis sing coroner took physician with
| him. went out there and had the corpse
! eXhumed, d post mcrtem examination had,
ami an inquest held by a jury OF the neigh
| bornood. The verdict was that the deceased
| came to his death by the hands of persons
| unknown. Well, the coroner's bill for the
! inquest went up 10 the police jury this week
| to bs paid, but that honorable body couldn t
| see it, and row Jake is not happy. He says
| the law makes it his duty to hold inguests
| over dead bodies of this kind, and he ought
|. TO be paid for il. Some Of Jake's friends
| tel. him that the taw in his bill Is that the
work was not properly done, they alleging
| that when they got down to the skull and
| found rope around the neck they stopped
| right there and did not disinter the body.
Others of them tell him that the flaw is
that the inquisitors failed to do their duty
in reporting that the hanging was done BY
persons unknown; that the police jury
want criminals found out, and that if they
pay to have crimes charged to unknown
persons in an easy going case like this.
there is no Use in having such inqulsitors-
in other words. that the coroner's pay must
be measured By his success. We suggest
sc cond trial.
On Tuesday Of last week Mr.. Joseph
Roy. son of David Roy, resident OF Mer-
mento. IN this parish, was shot and NOR
tally wounded Dv one Sharkey, Texan,
not far FROM Mr.. w. G.. Welch's, in the par
ish OF Ca!casieu. Mr.. Roy is OR was mail
contractor. He had had Sharkey employed
to carry tne mail. By eome negligence of
Sharkey the mail was not carried according
to law, aud his employer, Roy, suffered a
ernmenr. Ee discharged Sharkev, owing
him balance of $50, which he declined to
pay on accoun. Of the loss which Sharkey
had caused him. He and Sharkey met at
Welch's on the day above mentioned, and
Sharkev demanded payment of the $50.
Roy refused, giving the reason just stated.
Roy started home, and Sharkey loaded
q double-barreled gun with buckshot
and followed him. On coming up
pay the $50 he intended to kill him.
Roy gave him 81 and Sharkey asked for
the remaining So. Roy assured him that
was al he had, when Sharkey began raising
his gun. Roy made futile effort to escape,
and Sharkey put load of buckshot in the
email Of his back. Parties from Welch's
followed and found him, but his murderer
had gone. to Texas it is thought. Roy was
not dead but no hopes are entertained OF
his recovery.
Since writing the above, Sheriff Duson
has received letter from a brother of
Mr. Roy. When Sharkey drove the mail,
he got drunk and let the horses run away
with the stage; the mail bag was lost, and
so reported TO the department. For this
Roy, the contractor, forfeited part of his
pay; and he refused, therefore, TO pay
Sharkey the balance of $50 The day he
Was shot liz had been to Welch's. Cne of
his stage stands. with q load of corn. He
was shot in the back with five buckshoU
but was still alive when the letter above
mentioned was written. ROy's brother
offers reward of $3.50, and the citizens of
that section offer an additional one Of the
same sum.
From the DonadsonviEle Chief of the
eighth:
A quarrel took place on the Adeiard
Landry plantation, in this parish, last
Saturday evening, between two colored,
men named Joseph Melancon and Joseph
Jean Baptiste, which resulted in the fatal
wounding of the latter. Melancon was ar
rested upon the charge of murder and the
case was examined by Parish Judge Maher
last Wednesday. The facts elected by the
testimony OF witnesses are substantially as
follows: The quarrel originated at a ball,
about some trivial personal matter De.
ceased assaulted Melancon with an open
knife. and as the latter retreated deceased
continued to advance upon him threatening
TO take his life. Melancon picked up an ak
which lay in bis path, and as his antagonist
rushed forward, struck him on the head
with the weapon. causing a fracture of the
skull from which portion of the brains
oozed. Baptiste fingered until Monday,
and then died of his injury. The nature
OF the evidence proving coLclusively
that Melancon had acted in selt.deten4e.
Judge Maher ordered his discharge from
custody.
From. the Slr evepOrt Times Of tie eighth:
The northeast corner of Caddo parish.
known as the BLACK bayou country" has
Tor some time past enjoyed very unen.
vIaDle nOtOriety for deeds of violence and
murder bY Iawless desperadoes, who, being
favored by the isolated location and manv
tor hiding, have baffled all efforts
to arrest them. From gentlemen Just down
from that locality we learn that some two
weeks ago party of men (said to be from
Texasl captured man named Martin. |
living near Black bayou, and rode off with |
him, avowing their purpose to hang him. |
From the fact that Martin has not been |
heard OF since, and his captors exhibited a |
rope with which they boasted he had been |
hung. 1t is presumed their threats were |
carried out.
A short time ago one Perkins advanced |
to an Old man named McGuirk, wlo had |
recently settled in the neighborhood, sup
pies to the amount of thirty or forty dol
lars, which the son of Nc Guirx; a lad about
sixteen years OF age, was to pay for in work
Being cruelty and brutally treated by Per-
klns, and fearing also for his life, young
hcGnlrk ran away and hid in the woods,
afraid to venture home even for food. Not
being able to find the boy. Perkins went to
the house of old man McGuirk, and with
1ouble-barreled shotgun drove him to his
Pe-k!ns house, where be chained him up
or the night, and next day drove him ID
he field and compelled him to work, and
las had the poor old man ever eince tn u |
chained Up az night and working bv ,.s-
lnder armed guard Some of tie De
citizens learning Of this sent three of 4sl,
lumber to Perkins house t. investipa T..
md they found matters as etated, Perkins
lvowing his determination to keep the old
nan at work until he could catch the bow.
md then hang them both on one limb.
Great indignation was felt by all the bet !
er class OF cltizons and summary action
would have been had, but for the advice
nd persuasion of cooler heads who coun-
elled an appeal - the evil authorities for