The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-13
A SPECIMEN OUTRAGE.


We invite the attention OF the pubic
to the following article which appeared
in the New Orleans Republican yes
terday, under the sensational heading
- IA Life for d Blow" Wu5
eliot and killed arrt.stti,ai The got tlt, says
IN Mi. Bossatts store. The reason Tor tfia Rflf-
tna was that the eolored man struck Halter
s sY Is yqqFf Tbs sg e5 20 ws q Mt Mt n
bar. apd Halter walked NJ to him and asked
him three times If he wins not the shue negro
who struck him aud was not his name Alex.
Johnson Johhsb pfevaricated. and on his
1nestoning him the fourth time lie shot him
killing him instantly 1t was Johnson, how
The FOREGOING statement IL nsarly eomplsts as
stands. II tells of the killing Of il colorod man
by white person, The colored man was in q
by not asking him to take drink MI. Hattsr's
eNeise however. Tor killing was hatMe. coiofed
an ~, :, hna ~, sheh h,m Msee gears ago was m
done three years after the indignity WIS Offered
u Will Re gll d dajpstiilable hpmicde. amurder
kn6w ihat tn eolorsd mi, would NOT not have % hillsG
him thres years ago2 And ths only way to de.
Tend himself was to step ~ to his. victim. and
ask him II his natue was johnson. The SEQ enpe
shows That II made no sort of difference whether
the man 70 be killed was natned johnson or not.
he look ed ike johnson. and Halter killed him.
but not until he had asked him four times If his
name was Johnson. Some rash men would have
shot him after rsking his name only three times.
which shows how good heart had Halter. n The
victim had been Jones instead Of johnson II
would have hsep necessary to hold eoroners
inquest. That tho Survivor. Of this contest may
be n =, no way blamed for his uneodly net. com
Inltted whom his temper was up. and stnaitng
under Q blow three years old, the chronicle
comes to the rescue. and says: 1T WAS Johnson.
and 1 bis name Ws si"s W'ho Ss a9a otSndne ah
to sander this community or to take n single
laurel FROM the brow Of Halter, il can he said
isiauh."
Fortunately we happen to be in pos
session Of nll the facts in this lamenta-
BILE affair which the Republtcan has
entirely misrepresented for the purpose
of creating little miserable political
capital. About two years ago Alex
johnson, the negro who was killed, with
little or no provocatiop. fell upon
Halter and brutally beat him. The lat
ter, for some time, was actually Ig-
norant Of who the negro was who
had attacked and maltreated him.
Since that time Alex. Johnson, who Is
large, athletic, brutal and vicious negro.
has several times declared bis purpose
of killing Halter on sight. Only few
days previous to the meeting in Mr..
Boissat2s store, ut Cofile, Johnson was
met on the road with d doubled arreled
shot gun, aud on being asked what he
was carrying the gun for, answered, re-
ferring to Halter, 'fcr the purpose Of
killing that Cd Id white scoundrel." "
Hearing these repeated threats Of
a reckless and vicious negro, the white
man naturally became apprehensive
that he would be murdered, and he
armed himself. The morning Of tho
killing, Johnson heard that Halter was
ut the store. and started to 60 there
his friends insisted that he should not
go; he persisted. saying that he wanted
. drink his friends, knowing his de.
purpose to ankill Halter,
offered to go and bring him
all the whisky he wanted, but he
insisted on going himself. with
what purpose, In view of the facts we
have given, it Is easy to divine-his |
evident purpose was to seek difficulty |
with the white man, whose life he had
4 dozen times threatened to take. The
result was tnAI johnson WIS killed. |
rhe man who killed him was arrested
md taken before Judge Osborne, who,
after thorough preliminary examina-
ion, discharged the accused, saying
hat he had discharged other men with
ess defense than this one had.
1t happens, too, that Judge Osborne
s a Radical Judge; a regular negro
over. He was defeated for Judge OF the
District, in 1879, by Judge W. A. Seay,
,ut was counted in by the Returning
Board and Federal bayonets with Kel-
ogg and the balance, and he has been
citing as Judge OF the District ever
ince. ELF
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