The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-23
A TRIPLE LYNCHING.
Terrible Deeds of q Jefferson Parish
Ga.) Mob.


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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 1s.-There Was
triple lynching almost within the
shadow Of the city Saturday night,
but 1t was conducted so quietly that
the account of the horrible affair pub
lished yesterday morning was quite
surprise to the community. The vic
Tins of the vengeance of the mobwere
three negro brothers named Julian,
and the crime which they expiated in
so summary q manner was the shield
ing of q fourth brother. Roseylus
Julian, who on Friday afternoon shot
Judge Victor Espinolt to death while
trying him for trivial offense, Sc
riously wounded the judges son and
then made good his escape. -s
TIE shooting occurred in the court
room, and the murderer continued fir
Ing until the Judge. who attempted to
close in upon him, fell mortally
wounded Immediately outside and to
the left Of the building. The brutal
negro then stood over the PROSTATE
form of his victim and fired a fourth
shot which Is supposed to be the one
that passed through the heart.
Officer Forbes ran to assist the Judge,
and the negro ran across the grounds
for his cabin. Just at this time August
Espinolt, son Of the murdered official.
who is employed on the Carrollton
road, was coming from his work and
gave chase to the man whom he had
Just seen murder his father. The negro
reached his cabin and coming out fired
two shots at the young man, who sought
safety in the house adjoining the resi-
dence of Mr.. Charles Florey. The ne
gro provided himself well with ammu-
milton while in the cabin, for dur
ing his stay he grabbed mp u valise
and a Winchester rife. 1t was from
this rife that he fred the two shots by
which young Espinolt was wounded.
The negro made for the swamps in the
rear of the city. and being perfectly
familiar with them was soon in safe
hiding.
Posses were Immediately organized
and all night and all Saturday the
surrounding country was secured, but
the search was fruitless so far as the
real criminal was concerned. The
mother, two brothers and two sisters
of the negro Roseylus were arrested at
the Black Ridge, in the rear of the
city, by the police and were taken to
the little Jail on Judge Espinolt's
place, about 4 o'clock. Another
brother was arrested later in the day
in the same neighborhood and taken
to the same Jail, What caused the
arrest of the mother and two sis
tiers was that on visit being made to
the house these females were found
wrapping mp some clothing and loaf
of bread. This aroused the suspicion
that the articles were to be conveyed
to the fugitive. The brothers were
discovered going over the Black Ridge
and had shirt bundled up as il it
were intended for Julian.E This natur-
ally aroused suspicion against them.
The two brothers were caught coming
ont of the swamps. and as they per-
sistently refused to state whence they
had come, they fell under the bane of
doubt, hence all the arrests.
In the pursuit made by the different
posses during the day great lack of
system was demonstrated. They con-
tinually came upon one another's
tracks, and great many becoming
disgusted with the aimless manner in
which the hunt was being engineered,
came in and refused to further partici
pate in the chase. Toward nightfall
the men who had been out man-hunt-
ing all day, and having met with no
success, though they had frequently
been sent on wild-goose chsses, began
to grow fretful, and as the darkness
thickened around them their fretful-
ness grew into desperation, and they
determined to do something to compel
the relatives of the fugitive to disclose
his whereabouts The aroused popu-
lace was generally in favor of taking
no harsh action against the females,
but as to the males, they appeared de-
termined to string them up or make
them talk.
About IL o'clock a body consisting of
about twenty-five men, some armed
with rifles and shot-guns, came mp to
the Jail and lit n lantern. They un-
locked the door and then held a con-
ference among themselves as to what
they should do. Some of them were
in favor of hanging the whole five,
while others raised objections and in
sisted that only two of the brothers,
the short one and the tall one, Valsin
and Bakal, should. be taken out and
strung up. This was finally agreed to
and several of the men went into the
jail and coming out afterwards
brought with them the two doomed
negroes They were hurried across to
a pasture, 100 yards distant and there
asked to take their last chance of saw
ing their lives By making a confess
sion.
were then told to kneel down and
pray. One did so and the other re-
mained standing; but both prayed
fervently. The taller negro was then
hoisted mp. The smaller one stood
gazing at the horrible death of his
brother without finching. Fully if
teen minutes elapsed before the sec
ond brother was strung up. The mob
remained standing at the place for
about half an hour, when some one
suggested that they go back and hang
the three others This was opposed by
several, but it was finally decided that
they should go back and take the re-
naming brother out to Camp Parapet
and hang him there. The other two
were to be taken out and fogged, with
an order to get out of the parish in less
than half an hour.
The mob then started back to the jail,
to put their threats into execution. The
third brother, Paul, was taken out to
the camp, which is about mile dis
tant in the interior and there he was
hanged to a tree, his body hanging in
full view Of morbid crowd during the
day, as a warning TO the negro that
they cannot go about killing white
people, rs one Of the members Of the
mob put in.
The lynching was conducted very
quietly, and not q shot was fired dur
ing the entire proceedings
In the meantime the real murderer
Ii at liberty and his brothers, who died
to save him the fate which they met,
viii soon be resting in unmarked