New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-20
ANOTHER.
LOCAL lF-GOvERNMENT" IN De SOTO
ANOTHER RADICAL KILLED

occurred In heachi, in De Soto parish, on
the preceding Saturday, between John f.
Moore, recorder of that parish, and Mr..
John Fisher, in which both of them were
seriously if not fatslly wounded. Mr.. Moore
was elected recorder on the RepublicaR
ticket at the last election. He was one of
the witnesses before the congressional sub
committee when it met at Shreveport. The
same paper of the fourteenth instant pub
fishes the following statement of the wife
of the victim
DE SoTo PARISH, La, March 10, 1877.
Mr.. EDTToR-I deem itproper and a duty
that / owe to my murdered husband to
make plain statement of facts in regard
to the brutal and fiendish attempt to muF-
der my husband, John F. Moore by a cow
ardly mob in Keachi on Saturday, the tenth
instant. / will state at the beginning that
what say has betn told me by nv hus-
band himself Immediately after he was
brought home. He was perfectly rational
up to twelve O'Clock Sunday, and told me.
the particulars, and what he told me is cor
rObOrated by several eye-witnesses. Mr..
Moore wished to make his own statement
in the form of an affidavit, and l sent for
Justice Roach tor that purpose, but before
Mr.. Roach arrived Mr.. Moore was put into
astupOr by DIR. Horn, and has not spoken
since, and is now in q dying condition.
am satisfied that my husbands murder
was cOncocted and attempted by band of
political assassins, who set g snare to draw
him to Keachi in order to murder him.
About three weeks ago Mr.. Moore was eued
on q note in favor of j. L. Scales, of Mans
field, before Justice Sinclair, who is a jus
tice of the peace for ward No. /; my hus-
band lives in ward No. 2. Having been
warned repeatedly by friends that he would
~, hax fo
band wrote out an exception to the juris-
ton of Mr.. Sinclairs court, and claimed his
own ward, and sent his exception up by
neighbor. The exception was overruled,
and the case continued up to Saturday. the
tenth instant, when he was compelled to
90 to Keachi. After the trial was over,
Giles Warner approached Mr.. Moore
aud asked him why he had Joined the
Republican party. Mr.. Moore answered
him that the election was over and a discus
siOn of that kind could do no good; that he
would rather not have anything to say on
politics: but Warner insisted that he only
asked him in q friendly way for his reasons
for being a Republican. Mr. Moore then
told him if he asked the question in q
friendly spirit that he would give his rea-
sons, and then went on to give his reasons
for his politics After Mr.. Moore got
| through giving his reasons for being Re-
| publican, Vafner called John p. Fisher.
who was standing near looking Mr.. Moore
in the face while he was talking, and asked
| him what he thought of q man who would
| desert the Democratic party and 20 over to
| the Radicals Fisher and MIR. Moore were not
on speaking terms and Warner knew it, and
| Fisher had threatened TO kill Mr.. Moore
| some time previous. Fisher answered that as
for Long, Roach and Moore, they were
| id thieving SIS of BIS before they went
| into the Radical party. Mr.. Moore then
gave Fisher the d-n lie, whereupOn Fisher
drew a Deringer pistol. At the same time
Mr. Moore drew his revolver. They both
| fred at the same time. Mr.. Moore's first
shot went into the ceiling of the house, and
the next four shots went into Fishers body.
| Fishers shet hit Mr. Moore on the collar
bone and glanced off. When Fisher fell,
| Mr.. Moore ran to his horse, which was tied
close by, and succeeded in getting on his
! horse, when the crowd surrounded him and
| pulled him of his horse. They then placed
| him under arrest and put Silas Mason, Giles
| Warner and man by the name of Henley
| to guard him. He (Mr. MOorel had been
under guard but a short time, when George
| Graves came up in front of him with q.
double-barreled shotgun IN his hands and
| fred both barrels in bis face. The gun was
loaded with duck shot. Mr., Moore ap-
pealed to his guards for protection from
| the mob, but the firing eoon became
general, and Mr.. Moore broke and ran,
| the mob following and firing on him at
every step he took. He ran upon q wide
| ditch, and. in attempting to Jump over it,
| he fell in it and the mob overlook him and
continued to fire on him. Up to this tune he
| had received no mortal wound. G.. Graves
then walked up near him and fred pistol
ball in his mouth james Fisher then walked
up to him and commenced beating him over
| the head with his revolver. and beat him
until they thought he was dead. G. Graves.
proposed to cut his throat and leave him,
| but they concluded he was dead and left
| him. Mr.. Moore, after some time, rallied
| and erawled out OF the ditch and erawled
| aud staggered to house near by where he
| found three ladies Ia Miss Pac1sOn and two
others). He implOred them to take him in
| the house ana take care of him; he
| told them that he had a wife and
! five children, and wished to see them
before he died, but they refused
| him admittanee, He then crawled of
and crawIed out to the main road, where
he found his horse tied to a weed lmmedi-
! ately in front of him. When he was ar
rested the horse had started home and some
| one had caught him and tied him, proyi-
dentially, where Mr.. MeOre happened to
strike the road. He managed to get on hia.
horse and struck out through an old field.
The mob were soon notified by the afore-
| said ladies that the man they had left in tho
ditch for dead was up and gone. whereupon
| they started in hot pursuit.. Mr.. Moore, in
the meantime, had gotten to an out Of the
way place, to the house of colored man,
| who took him to o place of safety in the
middle of an old 6eld, where he carried
him q bed and watched and cared for him
| all night. The mob continued their hunt.
for Mr.. Moore during the whole night and
part of the next day, but he was found by
my two brothers and brought home early
Sunday morning.
l believe that my husband is dying now,
| and am afraid that he will be murdered
here in his bed by the cOwardly brutea who
have trailed him like bloodhOunds. Ny
two brothers and friend stood guard over
him last night, and had the cowardly
brntes have come to finish their diah0iieaa
work the world would have been rid Of
some of its worst hende, who call them
selves men. i appeal to the good people Of
the country for protection againat the mob
who threatened to come and kill my hua-
band in HE bed, in the presence Of hia
family. appeal to humanity to pr0teet
me, q lone woman. from the eOwardly a.
sassins. The deputy sheriff is in my hone1
now with q warrant to take my husband -
Mansfield In case ne should live, and he
mob intend to kill him on the road. Mr..
Editor, lie there any way TO protect my hus@
band trom this mobl II there ia. IN the
name Of God and humanity, ! ask that e
HALLIE MOORE.
Later informatian lerelppes the fact thnS
3 few benga af tbs above Lester was
wFitton hs yissiraof White League malice
breRthsd bis last.
Score another for Stanley 2Iatth6un ana
''ioeal sslf-gogernmsns."
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