The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-28
TWO MURDERERs.
both of Them i'm Jail, ana What will
Become Of Them.

| Roth Of Them i'm Jail, ana What viii
Become Of Them.
| Items were scarce yesterday-the police courts
and stations failed to furnish anything that woult
interest the general public; so g DEMOCRAT re-
porter repaired to the levee to see IL there wal
any chance for strike, but the workingmen were
plying their different avocations. and not thing
could be discovered to give rise to the belief tina
anything unusual WAS going to occur, regardless
| of the fact that Dame Rumor had it that there
was going to be strike among the Jackson Bail
road men, and that their modus epera,sdi would
be known at IL O'Clock that night.
This was too long to wait. An hour after that
the reporter found himself in the parish jsi oil
jefferson, and through the courtesy of Mr.. Rose,
the Tailor, was allowed to see the murderer J. J.
Daniels.
This mans c,se ia a very peculiar one, and one
that will have to be decided at the next sitting OF
the Supreme Court. In the year 1873 Daniels,
while drunk, murdered man named J. o. Cook
on the right bank of the river in the parish of
Jefferson.
Daniels, after the committal Of the crime, was
IMMEDIATELY ARRESTED
and lodged in the parish jail at Jefferson.
Wh6n the Rranu Jury uet, bney IOuuu d true
bill against the accused As soon as the bill was
found, he was tried by q jury composed mostly OF
the colored element and found guilty of murder
without capital punishment.
The lawyer for the accused took an appeal to
the Supreme Court on the ground that the
courts in which the accused had been tried had
no jurisdiction.
The Supreme Court sustained the point taken
by the defense and granted new trial.
Daniels was then taken before Judge Pardees
nta Irf
out capital punishment. Three days after he was
convicted he was before Judge Pardee, who SEN
fenced him to the Penitentiary for life.
King Cutler, the lawyer for the accused tried
to get Kellogg to pardon his client. Kellogg re-
fused, but the day before surrendering the
gubernatorial chair he commuted Daniels
sentence from Penitentiary for life to three
years in the Penitentiary, the imprisonment to
date from the time Of arrest. Consequently at
the time OF the Communication, the prisoner, who
had been confined in the parish Jail
FOB THREE YEARS
and ten days, was considered as having served
his term of sentence, and was released.
Some five weeks ago Attorney General Ogd N
investigated the matter, and knowing that the
Senate had not confirmed the communication is
sued by Kellogg. ordered the rearrest Of Daniels.
A warrant was taken out and the accused was
again arrested, and thrown in the same eel,
where lie had spent three long years, and the
chances are that he will remain there until the
next session OF the Senate.
After leaving the cell occupied by Daniels. the
reporter came to the cell occupied by the noto-
rious negro. August Davis. This negro, in 1874,
ravshed q white woman on the right bank Of the
river, near the Company Canal, and after COM
hitting the deed. for fear that she would tell on
him, knocked her in the head with cudgel. The
blow did not cause instant death, but the woman
fell senseless to the earth, and Davis, believing
that life was extinct, rolled her down the bank OF
the river and then left the scene.
The woman was shortly afterwards discovered
by some strangers, who, seeing that she was not
dead found out where she resided and took her
home.
The unfortunate woman survived the murder
GUS assault for two days, during which time she
made declaration. in which she charged Davis
with having raped her and then made q
MURDERoUs ASSAULT UPON HER
with cudgel. The woman died and diligent
search was made for her murderer, but he had left
the parish for parts unknown. Butitis an old pro-
verb that murderer always returns to the scene
Of his crime, and it did not fail in this instance,
for after two years absence Davis returned to his
parish and went to work on Mr.. Kennedy's
plantation. where he was recognized and arrest
ed on the 18th Of May, 1876, and has remained in
prison to this date without trial.