Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-03-28
LOUISIANA,
A CHANGE DEMANDED.


New ORLEANS, March l9.-Whilc
General Nichols representatives in
Washington are urging President
Hayes to remove the troops in order
that there may be no obstruction to
pacification, his constituents in the
parishes are steadily and firmly paci-
flying themselves in their own way.
Further particulars in relation to the
killing of d. A. Weber, q leading
white republican of West Feliciana,
on the 7th inst, leave no room for
doubt that 1t was heartless and cold
blooded assassination. He was total.
ly unarmed, and was shot from the
courthouse in broad daylight, while
passing from the Office Of the Bayou
Sara Ledger, of which he was editor,
to his home. Seventeen buck-shot
were found in his body. Notwith-
standing the court house was occu-
pied during the day by leading DEM
ocrats of the parish, who had illegally
forced themselves into the Office, and
Governor Packard and Gen. Nichols
have each offered reward of 5000,
no one has dared to come forward
and say he knows anything of the af-
fair.
ANOTHER CASE
of political assassination occurred in
De Soto parish on the 10th inst. The
particulars are received through q
letter from Mrs. Sallie Moore, wife of
John F. Moore, the victim. Moore
was elected Recorder of Dc Soto par
ish on the Republican ticket, and was,
like Weber, q witness before the
Congressional Committee. He was
sued on q note, and required to APP
pear before Justice of the peace in
the crossroads town Of Keache, for
the sole purpose of getting him into
the hands of the bnlldozers. When
there he was drawn in a political dis
cussion, greatly against his will, and
an opprobrious epithet was applied
to him, which he resented. One of
the bulldozers, named John p. Fisher,
DREW A DERRINGER
and shot Moore, the ball striking his
collar-bone and glanced of. Moore
drew his revolver and shot five shots,
four of them lodging in the body of
Fisher. Moore then ran and mounted
his horse, but he was pulled off by
the crowd, and put under the guard
of three men. While under guard q
man named George Graves came up
in front of him and fired both barrels
of q double barrellcd shotgun, loaded
with duck-shot, in his face. Moore
appealed to the mob for protection,
but instead general firing was COM
menced. Up to this time he had re-
ceived no mortal wound. He ran a
short distance and fell into ditch.
While lying in the ditch, George
Graves fired a pistol ball in his
mouth, and James Fisher beat him
over the head with a revolver until
it was thought he was dead. Graves
proposed to cut his throat, but this
was not done. Shortly after they had
left, Moore recovered sufficiently to
reach house near by, where three
ladies refused him admittance. He
went to the main road and luckily
found his hons The ladies notified
the mob that he had gone, and he
started in pursuit Of him, but they
evaded them and reached an old col
ored mans cabin, where he was taker
care of, Sunday morning, when hi
was found by two brothers of Mrs
Moore and taken home. Her letter
written before her husbands death, il
as follows:
~ believe that my husbandi DYING
now, and l am afraid that he will b.
murdered here in his bedroom by thu
cowardly brutes who have trailei
him like bloodhounds. NV two
brothers and atfriend stood guari
over him last night, and had the cow
ardly brutes have come to finish thei1
diabolical work, the world would
have been rid of some of its wors
fiends who call themselves men.
appeal to the good people of the coun
ty to protect me against the mob who
threatened to come and kill my hus
band in his bed in the presence of hi
family. Iappeal to humanity to pro
tect me, lone woman, from the cow
ardly assassins. The deputy sheriff
is In my house to take my husband tt
Mansfield, in case he should live and
the mob intend to kill him on thu
road. Is there any way to protect
my husband from this mob? If Their,
is in the name of God and humanity
l ask that it be granted"
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