New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-16

torture is not the true remedy for the evils
which afliet Louisiana. / know you too
we'll to believe that you would knowingly
do so. Yet such is the effect of your letter.
! am, with the highest respect, your
friend, B. WADLEIGH.
ASSASSINATION OF D. A. WEBER.
The Donaldsonville Chief of March 10
contains a long article on the murder of D.
A. Weber. 1t properly characterizes it as
q cold-blooded murder, trscesble only to
political reasons, for which portions of
Louisiana have become infsmously con"
spicuous. He had just left his brother-in-
law, Mr.. Jules Goudran, when five shots
were fred from the courthouse in rapid sue
cession, and he fell dead. The coroner's
Jury, though the deed was done in broad
day, found no clue, and the Chief doubts if
the reward will stimulate the local officers
any for Mr.. Weber was . leading Repub-
liean. After showing that Mr.. Weber had
not personal enemy in the parish, but had
the warm esteem of his political opponents,
it is shown that it was false that he had
been going about with shotgun, or even
had weapon.
This is shown by the following statement
from Mr.. COlline, q gentleman of unim-
peachable character, and belonging to one
of the Oldest families of the state. This
| letter Senator Weber inclOsed to the Dem
ocrat with request that in justice to his
brother it be published, the statement of
his carrying arms having first appeared in
i ooIpvoa put fbia uaa rafuaad
BAYOU SARA, March 9, 1877.
EDITOR REPUBLICANS:
have seen in the New Orleans Democrat
/ eighth instant, dispatch signed "Vidette,"
which states that sd. A. Weber for the last
| few DAYS has been walking our streets
armed with q shotgun, and in a defiant
way threatening many of our citizens" l
pronounce this statement to be an inmiti-
| gated lie.
On the day that deceased was asssssina-
ted he and had gone out to shoot birds.
We hunted with gun that | had Dor
/ rowed. / carried the gun. [ have been
with D. A. Weber every day excepting last
Sunday, when he went on q visit to Pointe
| COupee, since about the ninth of February;
| during that time 1 have not even seen him
with pistol; in fact, he lleger carried one.
| 7. HUNTER COLLINS.
From Senator Weber and other RESPONSE
BILE parties the following additional in
formation has been received:
On Wednesday, the seventh of February,
| at about noon, Weber was passing the
courthouse square on his way home to din
| ner. He was unarmed. AS he came oppo-
| site to one of the gates leading into the
square he was fired upon and instantly
killed by four or five parties standing in a
| room of the courthouse. The weapons
used were shotguns, loaded with buokshOt.
The courthouse was occupied during the
day, and under the control of John j. Bar
row, Democrat, claiming to be sheriff;
Charles NJ. Barrow, Democrat, claim
ing to be clerk of the court, and T. W. Ro-
Riilio, Democrat, claiming to be recorder.
These men and other prominent Democrats
were found few minutes after the killing,
but gave no account of the same.
Weber had had no personal quarrel with
any one.
Der of the Nichols House of Represents
tives from West Feliciana, in his testimony
before the congressional committee, said he
considered D, A. Weber, the tax collector
a faithful, upright and efficient officer, and
in his intercourse with him he had always
acted like gentleman"
D. A. Weber was a young man of con
spieuously fine qualities OF mind and heart
he was a native Louisianian and leaves 6
|
His death was evidently the result of 6
/ we'll matured conspiracy to destroy him
because his political course and influence
! were obnoxious to certain Democratic par
) tlsans and office-seekers.
The failure of the eoroner's Jury to dis
cover the authors of such crime, commit
! red at noon day in the heart of q populOu
town, the fatal shots fred from the court
r house occupied by the self-asserted officer
D above named, make full proof of the COZ
4 spiracy.
J. gives unwilling testimony to support thl
8 view. Says the Sentinel
"As the affair is in progress of thoroug
d investigation, we forbear further common
= than to say that Mr.. Weber had made hin
self odious to q number of our citizens
o colored as we'll as white, through his pa
# tisan acts, and that he had become o.
g noxiOus through articles appearing in tn
LEDGER abusive of our citizens, and of whiC
a he was believed to have been the autho
d although not the ostensible editor. tt
i last number of that paper contained threa
B. that were calculated TO engender i'll feelir
ID toward their authof, rather than to ira
quilize the public heart
h The threats above referred to are the II
30 lowing:
le awe propose to publishsin our next iss'
ic the following letters and documents; Fro
Thomas H. Hews to John F. IRVINE makii
b. a bid for the Democratic nomination
ic district Judge; on divers subjects from
th s. d, Hamilton; certified list of defaulti
es tax collectors for West Feliciana."
n, 1t may be well to mention that Charl
n NJ. Barrow, above alluded to as claiming
m be clerk of court and at the cOurthOI
of about the time Weber's murder, was sho'
by convincing testimony taken before
lie congressional committee, to have killed
is colored man, Isaac Mitchell, and to ha
tic assisted to kill Gilbert Carter, anOtl
y, colored man, both Republicans, during
campaign of 1876.
he John j. Barrow, claiming to be sher
lis which office he took by violence, who v
M also in or about the courthouse when
.st fatal shots were fired, was noted b.
dozer during the said campaign. See ts
to mony of Amy Mitchell, Wash Spooner g
ed others before the congressional commit
he The statement of the above facts make
,er sufficient commentary on Louisiana
ny mocracy in the Felicianas and fully expla
IN. the modes used to give apparent majorii
IN to Tilden and Nichols.
M