The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-22
CONFESSESSEVEN MURDERS
TWO ITALIANS LRNCHED FOR ONE,
AND WE PAID INDEMNITY.
Remarkable Story or n Negro in New Orleans
ne Was Leader or = GANG which Included
Two other Men aud Two w~omen-Murdcrs
Occurred All within . space or Two Miles.


Two other Men aud Two women-Murdcrs
Occurred All within . space or Two Miies.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. 2l.-Antonio Rich.
ard. alias Creole the negro arrested on the
Ellington plantation in st. Charles parish, q few
miles above New Orleans. charged with the rob
berry and murder of Louis Iieglcr, Is actually
staggering tho authorities with the extent Of
his confessions. Creole was tho leader OF n
gang which included two other men, named
Morris and Washington, and two women.
named Octavie and Lavinia Alexander. They
wore r frosted because some of Zieglcr's prop.
erty was found in their possession, and they
we're suspected of the murder.
Creole confessed tho crime and told how Zieg-
Ter was robbed and murdered. Yesterday no
confessed 10 a second murder. saying that no
had killed Charles Constantine. a peddler, who
has been missing for some time. Creole told
how he robbed and killed Constantine and hid
the body In the swamp. He pointed out the
place OF burial. and the remains we're found
there to-day. with proof that tho body was Con.
the manner in which Creols stated.
To-day Creole renewed the CONFESSIONS and ad-
said. a man named Patterson In 81. Landry, and
O year afterwArd a tramp at Melville. In the
s.. I,ndrS and h" SS U moved to e'e St, aV ch lor e.m In IN
1898 he killed q negro woman Mt the Lone star.
tho c,Inp near Ellington plantation, where he
was working; also Alexander johnson. q colored
laborer on that plantation; also an old Spaniard
OF the name OF Alexis.
The murder OF Alexis, which occurred last
June, caused a gre I sensation ut the time, and
was attributed to two Italians, who were said to
have killed him through business rivalry and
jealousy. The result WAS great excitement In
the parish Tho IIalians were confined In the
local jail, but were taken therefrom and lynched
by u mob which came from the neighboring
parish OF Jefferson. Tho United States State
Department paid damages to the Italian Gov
eminent only the othe- day for these lynched
Italians. who. Creole now declares, were inno-
cent, no being the true murderer of Alexis.
Including the ZiegleT and Constantine crimes.
he confesses In III TO seven MURDERS. all being
committed with tho idea OF rohbing his victims.
In one case the murder yielded him only 81. %.
Creole confessed toIa number of minor crimes.
He beat and severely injure n boy, knocking
out his eye, for which crime he served two years
In the penitentiary, this being the only punish.
ment hr has ever received. He announces that
he has other crimes TO confess when he can re.
member them.
There seems to DO no reason for the authori.
ties to doubt the truth of his confession, AS he
has been able to substantiste and prove his
crimes. 1t now seems proba BILE that the total
number OF victims OF this st. Charles gang OF
assassins will exceed a dozen. nearly all muir
dered within a radius OF a few miles. The gan7
murdered very one upon whom they could lay
their hands who seemed to have money.