The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-19
GUIDRY SPEAKS
IN A LETTER TO CAPT. CAIN.
And Tells of Rousseau's Confessions O
Murders While I'm the Gender emneG Cell.

And Tells Of Rousseau's Confessions o
Murders While I'm the Condo nlned Cell.
Yesterday Capt. Caio, of the Parish Prisop, re-
ceived the following letter from Jules Guidry
who is to be hanged in Cslossieu parish on the
25th inst:
GALVESTON, Texas, July Is, 1877.
Can't. @. G. Cain, ESQ.
Dear sir and fi'iend-I now have no bopes oi
escaping the galows. but before dying thank
you for the kind treatment you have shown me,
and hope that you may hereafter prosper. / also
hope that you will publish to the world the con.
fessions that am about to make. / hsve no
sins to answer for to my God, nor have com.
mited any crime during my life, with the excep-
tion Of the one that have sacrificed my life for,
which do not regret having done; but as the
lying and dying confessions OF Louis Rousseau
whose veracity you are fully acquainted with, and
as you know, it was not worthy of belief, has
oaused me to die, wish to make brief state.
ment Of what he has often r, lated TO me i'm the
condemned cell. He has often told myself and
comrades that be would not die contented until be
MURDERED G. q. DUsoN,
OF St. Laundry: and must confess that he had
dirk knife brought in the cell for the express
purpose OF stabbing Duson when he (Duson)
came to get him to hang him, but his
eowardly heart failed him. He slso
told Us that he desired that if he
was hung be hoped the last one Of US then in
the cell would follow him. desire further to
relate some few of the crimes com mitted by him,
as stated by him to me in the oe H. one Of which
was poor unfortunate fellow he came across in
the woods, hewing timber He acknowledged to
me OF having taken the mah's axe and deliberate
jy split bis head open. Another Of which was the
killing OF man by the name of Fontinat,
whom be had raised to steal and rob,
when, afterward, Fontinat was caught in
the act Of stealing, and afterwards took refuge in
Texas and that he (Rousseau) knowing that
Fontinat would probably be captured and would
disclose other crimes they had committed TO-
gethar. thereby laying bim tRousseau) liable TO
criminal pro ecrton, he volunteered to capture
him; and there was requisition obtained for
the arrest OF Fontinat and was placed in the
hands OF Louis Rousseau, who thereupon went
to Texas, where he lime across Fontinst and
arrested him, making him believe that he
would deliver bin safely in st. Landry;
whereupon the man agreed and went with him
(fiousseau) for distance Of hundred yards,
when the poor unfortunate fellow was invited to
get down off his horse and take the contents OF q
DOUBLE BAnHEtLED SHOT GUN,
which crime he told the authorities he committed
for the reason that the fellow tried to make
his escape.
Another, which is an attempted robbery and
murder OF an old aud respectable citiz On Of st.
Landry. who had great deal of money
buried about his house, that he (Rousseau) knew
Of Whereupon he (Rousseau) and three or four
others, blscken cd themselves and went to the old
gentlemau's house for the purpose Of robbiDg
him; bu', to his surprise, he found that the money
had been moved that day. Whereupon he got
furious, went to the house, aud asked the old
man to surrender the money; but the old man
had but 5000 or $500, which he offered to Rous-
seau; but finding it not enough, Rousseau struck
the old man blow about the head
WITH RIFLE,
and thereupon took fl ght. The old gentleman's
name 1 do not exactly remember, but think il was
LIS Rose. who does not know until this day who
strut him; but the scar s yet to be seen IL the
old gentleman is still alive. IF not, there are old
citizens Of st. Landry who remember the assault
He slso made mo acqusi tied with other crimes
that will hereafter give you q detailed account
Of. but he told me that he had committed crimes
that he would not acknowledge in this world
that they we're too outrageous to m AXE known
My respects to DR.. Moses and othsrs.
You will hear from me again.
Your obedient servant,
JULES GUIDRY.