Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-26
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A CHILD OF THE STATE.
The Count dc Serrant Sent up Tor
Five Years.
ents.
N. 0. Tilnes.

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N. o. Times.
Some time ago there arrived in
this city young man who gave his
name as Walch de Serrant. He said
he was q count, all the way from
France, and as his manners were very
smooth and ingratiating, his story
obtained wide credence. He fell into
bad ways, however, and in conse-
quence became intimately acquainted
with the criminal laws Of Texas, Ar
kansas and Louisiana. The editor OF
the Little Rock Gazette "wrete up"
the count in very Imaginable manner,
and the victim swore that he would
be avenged upon the writer as soon
as he had righted himself i'll the eyes
of the public. circumstances inter
veued, however, preventing the exc
cntion OF this laudable resolve. A
very short time after his arrival in the
Crescent City, he INDUCED in one OF
his peculiar pranks, called in legal
phraseology grand larceny, and was
taken before u court, tried, found
! guilty, and sentenced to five years In
the State penitentiary.
His counsel took an appeal to the
Supreme Court, and yesterday the
verdict and judgment OF the lower
court was affirmed. Justice Todd
who read the decision of the Supreme
Court, took occasion to say in the
course of his remarks:
We have closely scrutinized the
proceedings pertaining to this prose.
cution, and we cannot find a single
right or privilege guaranteed to al
accused by law that was denied tx
defendant, but on the contrary tina
every means of defense in the powei
Of the court was afforded him, and WI
find no error or irregulaity in an.
| part of the proceeding.
The count will take visit mp tb'
river as far as Baton Rouge, where il
the privacy and reclusion of the peni
tentiary Or work on the road he vii
have ample time and opportunity tt
D perfect his bellicose arrangements TO
| the humiliation of the Arkansas edi
tor who gave him such eautiin
send off in bis paper.
The Sparta Rural Times gives the fol
lowing account of the killing Of the col
ored boy who raped and murdered a lit
the colored girl some weeks ago: "Betor
our last Saturdays paper containing al
account Of the horrible double crim
committed in Our parish last sunda
week, had time to reach its readers, th
perpstrator, Cherry Nichols, was dang
ling between earth and heaven with sey
eral bullet holes in his body. Saturf!a
night last, at about II O'clock, Mr.. Whit
low, the sheriff, was aroused by part
of six men who informed him that the
were new corners in the lower part G
this parish and that they had a hog THE.
who they called Dock, in their posse.
sion, and wished to put him in jail
Not suspicioning anything at all, tn
sheriff went at once and unlocked til
iail and ordered Dock, who by this tim
was all in tears at the idea of going j
prison, to walk in. But Dock wouIdn
walk worth cent. BY this time a pei
feet little army Of both white and co
, ored men, who had concealed themse I've
in a clump Of woods near the Jail, ha
completely surrounded the jail dool
when Mr.. Wbitlow, was told that Doc
was one of their citizens-they wante
Cherry Nichols, and Cherry Nichols the
would have. They were demonstrate
with for several minutes, half an hol
perhaps, but without effect. For OF
manIto undertake to control forty Or tiff
armed and determined men, and tn;
too, after the prison doors were throw
5 open, would have been worse than foil,
!. 50 the sheriff surrendered the boy int
} their hands. He was made secure an
+ marched off in the direction of MOul
Lebanon. He was found about 81
: miles north OF here in an old field la
6 Monday hanging to tree literally sin
| to pieces. The same day DR.. HaTel
) the coroner, summoned Il jury aud r
paired to the scene, where post mo
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