The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-21
A LYNCHING.
Three Brothers Strung Up Near
New Orleans By Mob.
Their Crime Consisted In Refusing to Swear
to the Guilt of Their Brother-The
Real Murderer, Who Killed Judge
Estopinal, Is at Large.

Estopinal, Is at Large.
New ORLEANS, Sept 1s.-There was
a triple lynching almost within the
shadow Of this city Saturday night, but
1t was conducted SO quietly that the
account published Sunday morning
was a surprise. The victims were three
Negro brothers, named Julian, and
the crime was the shielding of q
fourth brother, Raselius Julian, who
on Friday afternoon shot Judge
Victor Estopinal to death while the
latter was trying him for q trivial Of
fense, seriously wounding the judges
son. The shooting occurred in the
courtroom, and the murderer contin-
ned firing until the judge, who follow
ed to close in upon him, fell mortally
wounded, Immediately outside. The
Negro then stood over his victim and
fred fourth shot. Officer Korber ran
to the judge, and the Negro made .
dash across the grounds for his cabin.
Just at this time August Estopinal, .
son of the murdered official, was COM
ing in from his work, and he gave
chase to the man whom b had just
seen murder his father. The Negro
reached his cabin. and coming out,
fred two shots at the young man, who
sought safety in . house. The Negro
provided himself with ammunition and
q rife He then made for the swamps
in the rear Of the city, and was soon
hiding. Posses were Immediately or
ganized, and all night and all Saturday
the surrounding country was secured,
but the search was fruitless.
The mother, two brothers and two
sisters of the Negro Raselius were ar
rested Saturday by the city police and
taken to the little Jail Another broth
or was arrested later in the day in the
same neighborhood and taken to
to the same Jail. On a visit be-
ing made to the house these women
were found wrapping up some
clothing and loafrof bread. This
aroused the suspicion that the articles
were to be conveyed to the fugitive.
The brothers were discovered going
over the Blackridge, and had a shirt
bundled up as If it were intended for
Julian. The two brothers were caught
coming out of the swamps, and as they
persistentlv refused to state whence
they had come, they, too, were ar
rested.
About II o'clock Saturday night
about twenty-five men. armed with
rifles and shotguns, came up to the
Jail. Some of them were drunk. They
unlocked the door and held a confer
ence as to what they should do. Some
were in favor of hanging the five, while
others raised objections, and insisted
that only two of the brothers should
be taken out and hanged. This was
finally agreed to- and several of
the men went into the Jail and
brought out the two Negroes. They
were hurried across to pasture, one
hundred yards distant, and there asked
to take their last chance of saving
their lives by making confession.
The Negroes made no reply. They
were then told to kneel down and pray.
One did so, the other remaining stand
ing, but both prayed fervently. The
taller Negro was then hoisted up. He
remained hanging fully five minutes
before the second one was hanged.
The shorter Negro stood gazing at the
horrible death of his brother without
f1inching.
The mob remained 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, and it was finally decided that
they should go back and take the
remaining 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 execu-
tion. The third brother was taken out
to the camp, where, about mile dis
tant in the interior, he was hanged to
tree, his body hanging in full view Of
morbid crowd during the day, "as a
warning to the Negroes that they can
not go about killing white people," as
one of the members of the mob put
it.
The lynching was conducted very
quietly, and not shot was fred during
the entire proceedings In the mean
time the real murderer is at liberty,
and his brothers, who died to save him
from the fate which they met, will
soon be resting in unmarked graves,
heroes of a peculiar distinctive type.
During the search for Julian on Sat
urday, one branch of the posse visited
the house of Negro family in the
neighborhood of Camp Parapet, and
failing to find the object of their
search, tried to induce John Willis, a
young Negro, to disclose the where
abouts of Julian. He refused to do SO
or could not do so, and was kicked to
death by the gang.
Porest Planes Checkei