The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-04-26


fore A. Hallett, Justice Of the Peace.
The detectives then had the officers ar
rest the Slaughter boys, Stainbrook and
Roberts. The jail having only three
cells, the detectives billeted tbs prison
ers around in private rooms, with keep
ers to keep them separate.
sTEINBRooK's CONFESSION.
The next confession was Stein
brooks. His confession was sworn to
also, on the oath of. March, and coin
cides exactly with the preceding one.
The additional facts are as follows: |
live in the house near Slaughter's, which
| rented from G. M. White. At on the
evening of the 14th, l, John Slaughter
and Fred. Conway went from Slaugh-
ter's house down Eighth Street. Short
ly after we went out on the Humboldt
Road and met Eugene Roberts and
Chas. Slaughter,who joinedus. We then
went up the road, and turned towards
the Chinese camp. At Lemm's Ranch
Roberts and John Slaughter went
ahead, and got over the fence into the
field, where they stopped and talked
about who should lead into the camp.
Roberts agreed to. John Slaughter
first entered, and then all rushed in.
Roberts proposed shooting but l and
Conway objected. When the other
boys entered l stood outside. None
were disguised. Roberts gave me the
word to shoot first. When | first heard
of the intent was at the fence. When
Roberts and John Slaughter proposed
the robbery, near the camp, Roberts
proposed killing, l think for safety.
Roberts hal bottle of kerosene, the
contents of which he threw over the
Cinnamon. When the firing c.m-
menced, some one asked: (which one
do you want?'
CHARLES SLAUGHTER'S CONFESSION,
made on March rs, and indorsed by
John Slaughter oh the Goth, says:
There were six Cinnamon and five of
US. We all shot our men with intent to
kill them. We then left, not waiting to
see how much mischief was done, and
returning, came down between the
fiume and road, through the brush, till
near the sash factory, when and my
brother Fred turned off and went
around by the race track and came into
| town. Did not see the others again
that evening, but went home to bed.
On the night of the murder John
Slaughter wrote on a little stick. eve
want you tonight" and handed it to
either me, Steinbrook or Fred. All
read it and agreed to be on hand, not
knowing what was wanted. Myself,
John Slaughter, Roberts, Jack Maho-
ney and Adam Holdenbaum fired old
Chinatown on the night of March 8.
We had sacks filed with straw and
soaked with coal ell, and put them I'M
der the house where the fire broke out.
John fired one and 1 tried to fire the
other, but failed to ignite it. Holden
baum said he was acquainted with the
dog and could steal oil. He started
off and soon returned with a five gallon
key. The night we.fred old Chinatown,
myself and brother John, with others,
fred new Chinatown. The others are
Eugene Roberts, Adam Holdenbaum, C.
Wright and Thomas Steinbrook.
The five confessing to murder are the
two Slaughters, Roberts, Steinbrook
and Conway. The other confessions
| are by Holdenbaum and Virgil OF in
cendiarism. HIT. Jones, third Slaugh-
ter boy named Pleasant, and John Ma
honey, are in Jail as incendiaries. These
have not yet confessed, but doubtless
will. Wright says he and Jones fired
the soap factory. The three Slaughter
boys, Conway and Jim Fay, burned the
Chico Creek laundry and Mrs Roberts's
barn and the Chinese tenement near
Chico. Holdenbaum was arrested last
night in lumber camp thirty-five miles
from here. Fay and Pleasant Slaughter
were arrested here to-day. The two
Slaughters, Conway, Holdenbaum,
Wright, Steinbrook and Mahoney were
this afternoon, taken before Justice
Hallet and waved examination. The
five murderers were held without bail.
The incendiaries were held to bail in
$4,000 each, and were committed in
default. Sheriff Schneider to-day, for
the first time, appears to demand the
prisoners, but the Citizens Union, who
have the jail here guarded, object to
parting with their captives. The JUS
tice will decide the question tomorrow.
Steinbrook is a young farmer, twen-
ty-four years of age, with a tiorid COM
plexion and black, piercing eyes, being
the cool-headedest of the crowd. The
mother of the Slaughter boys is
Cherokee Indian woman, and the IA
Their is white man with q swarthy In
dian look common to laborers. John is
aged twenty-five, Charles nineteen, and
Pleasant sixteen. Roberts worked for
Kemp, the butcher, here, and is twenty
two years old, and has good figure and
face, except bad mouth. Conway is
a loose, slab-sided, green-looking young
eountrYman, about tWentY-one wears