New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-10
News from the Interior.

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From the Shreveport !SouAcestern I,e
gram, August 4:
District Attorney Wise is still after til,
! law breakers, and if our citizens will only
| give him the necessary assistance, we guar
antee he will do his part in the matter. He
Is nov after the Stevens b0ye, who are
making the vicinity of Summer Grove q
perfect terror with their depredat,ons. One
OF their last exploits was to ride into a col.
Ored mans field while he was blowing, and
with drawn pistols presented at him. take
his mule from the plow and carry it of.
Another time they came into Summer
Grove, and with drawn pistols threatened
to move on number OF ladies and gentle
men playing croquet. and they went into
the house for protection. 1t is said thew
are living over the Texas line, and we are
snrprised that the citizens do not arrest
them and bring them In when they make
their appearance. One of them is now un-
der Indictment for murder. and recently es.
capped from the parish Jail. District Attor
ney Wise has asked Governor Kellogg to
offer reward for their capture, and we
hope the Governor will act promptly in the
matter.
From the Shreveport Times. August ):
We have before given an account IN our
columns Of the most horrible murder of Mr..
Dan McNully. Of this city, in Panola county,
Texas. The mnrderers were supposed TO
be- two men, Spradley and Cox, who are
under arrest. and who were travelling in the
same wagon with the murdered man.
This wagon, which these two men brought
to Shreveport, was yesterday examined
with results that point. as clearly as circum
the murderers. On the Il o0r of the wagon
body was found spot Of blood as large
as mans hand, which there had been an
evident attempt to erase by scrubbine. The
iron roo that runs across the front part OF
the body of the wagon had blood on it; tho
double tree, right front wheel and right
trace were also bloody. On the under por-
ton OF the seat there was the impress Of q
bloody finger, and IN the wagon was found
soft blood spot substance that ap.
pearea TO % brains or mangled flesh Of
some kind.
These circumstances, when taken toeeth-
or with the facts of these men being the
companions OF the murdered man, the va
gon containing three men having been seen
by one person three miles from and going
IN tho direction of the place where the body
was found and in the time necessary to have
elapsed having been seen by another per-
so2 two miles beyond that place with only
two men in it, and those men having
ousoC Cuo "dSOA " tulo place, Oec0 Ar
rested anu given different accounts of how
they came in possession of it; all the cir
We think point with an almost
lnfallible hand to these men. Spradley and
Cox, as the murderers.
From the Bastrop Republican, August 5:
Mr.. James Williams. q step-son Of Mr..
Thomas w. Williams, of Oak Ridge, met 4
sad tate . few days since. While riding (
along near Lafourche lake his horse |
stumbled and fell with him. which so in
jured him internally that he died before he |
reached homo. |
1t appears that he had remounted his
horse after the fall and endeavored to 90
home. but was compelled to dismouut and
was unable to proceed further. He. by his |
cries, attracted the attention Of some freed |
men, who went to his assistance. He told !
hem OF his accident and requested them to !
procure conveyance to take him home,
which they did: but before they could re. !
urn to him he had died.
Mr.. Williams was = young man OF much |
promise. and has many friends to lament |
lis fate.
From the St. James Sentinel, August
Tuesday morning about eunrise. as Mr..
Aicee Bourgeois was coming down the road !
vast Duncan +. Kenner1 Boudoin planta-
ion, in the parish of Ascension, he was |
topped by two co)Ored men on horseback, |
ne of whom drew a revolver and demanded !
lis money. They succeeded in getting 81 |
n money and half y dozen chickens, which |
hey helped themselves to from his cart. I
rom the best information Mr.. Bourgeois !
ould get, these men have been depredating !
rom Baton Rouge down, and are supposed
0 be escaped convicts.