Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-08-20

which II Sunnarily PunisheA with
Instant Death, ~ IN outraged
Population.

and daughter in little house in the
vicinity Of Abbeyille. On Friday
evening he left his wife and daughter
ut home and went to church at Able
vile. During his absence negro
named Harrington, who bore no envi-
able reputation in the parish, entered
the house where Henderson's wife and
then lay sleeping on differ
ent beds. He'll and lust were in his
heart, his fiendish purpose well made
up, and he approached the daughters
bed and rudely assaulted her. Her
screams awoke the mother, who seized
an ak and attacked the ravisher, but
he turned ferociously upon her,
wrenched the weapon from her hand,
and with one blow split her head
open. Maddened with his own des-
perate purposehe subsequently, struck
the bleeding woman nine blows with
the Ak, cutting off her lower jaw, am
putating her right hand and splitting
open her back. The wretch then,
leaving the mangled corpse on the
ground, turned with redoubled fury
in pursuit Of
HIS OTHER VICTIM,
who had fed. He overlook the poor
young girl, almost paralyzed with
terror, within half a mile Of the house
threw her to the ground, accomplish
ed his hellish purpose, and with .
club beat his victims brains out, till
like her mother, she was a bleeding
corpse.
When the unfortunate Henderson
returned home he found his wife
hacked to pieces, lying murdered il
the yard. He looked for his daugh
ter, but she was not there. Some
traces Of blood showed the direction
in which the murderer had gone. TIL
frenzied father followed this crimson
trail only to find his daughter furthe
on,
A LIFELESS CORPSE,
with brains battered and bleeding
His cries attracted the neighbore
and the sheriff and coroner were sen
for.
Henderson having informed tn
sheriff that he suspected Williar
Harrington Of having committed tn
deed search was made for him imme
diately, and he was arrested by tn
sheriff before daylight at his house
When arrested he had blood upo
bis hands and upon his hat, and
was noticed that one of the heels I
his shoes was missing. The missin
heel was subsequently found nes
; the murdered woman's body. H
clothes, from which he had been 81
, deavoring to wash ont the bloc
were wet. harrington was taken
, Jail at daylight Saturday and put
irons.
At about II o'clock some two
three hundred men, white and blac
) rode up to the blacksmith's shop al
ordered the blacksmith to folio
them and bring all necessary tools
burst the prison doors. When Il
crowd reached the prison the jail
= was on the point Of leaving, but b
fore he could close the door numb
of the party penetrated into the ia
They seized upon the prisoner, u
shackled him, placed him in a wag
~ and drove him to the place. where
had committed the first murd
= There the foresight of the lynch'
- had already caused
A SCAFFOLD
to be erected, and the grim object v
the first thing that greeted the mi
:, derer's arrival. He viewed all t
o with remarkable nerve and composu
10 and when he saw that his fate Y
D. inevitable, calmly confessed his thr
n fold crime, telling how he had kill
+ the old woman first, then what
le had done to the girl and how
d, afterwards murdered her. He '
10 thereupon asked by the lynch
IS whetherhe thought they were RICH
Is hanging him then and there, to VIII
he simply answered that che thou
. So" The wagon was driven un