The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-01-08
Three Negroes Executed at Hahn
vile. Louisiana.
One Confesses to Having Killed Nine Men
and One Woman.
A Man Hanged at Greenwich, Mas
sachusetts, for the Murder OF
Woman, Protesting His 1nno-
cence to the Last--Hangman's
Day in Georgia

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. Z. - Three
negro murderers died on the scaffold at
Hahnville a small town in ST. Charles
Parish to-day. Louis Richards, alias
Pierre. alias Creole" by the latter
name being notorious, was one OF the
trio. Together with George Washing
ton and Foxey Morris, also negroes,
they were sentenced to death for muir
during and robbing a Jewish peddler
named Zeigler last June in Ellington
Plantation, near Hahnville.
The murderers were traced by the
discovery of Zeigler's goods in the pos
session of their female companions.
Creole" confessed, duplicating the 9TH
er two, and with his statement the au-
thorities obtained conclusive evidence
of their guilt.
Creole" confessed that since 1854
he had murdered at least nine men and
one colored woman on various plan
tations His victims were principally
Italians and Jews, who made a living
by peddling among plantation negroes.
Close investigation revealed that his
confession was entirely correct, and 1t
cleared UP numerous murder mysteries
of years ago.
Here is a list of "Creole's" crimes,
given by himself: April 2, 1884, wound
ed Albert White, Smartsville La; May,
1888, murdered and robbed Pattison,
colored. Melville, La; 1892, sentenced
to one year in the penitentiary for rob
berry; December IS. 1898. killed un-
known tramp. white, Malville, La /;
January 5, 1895, murdered Mary Park
err Ellington Plantation, St. Charles
Parish; July IS 1896, murdered and
robbed Roccina, a Spaniard, Luling, st.
Charles Parish; December II, 1896,
murdered and robbed Alexander john
son. Ellington Plantation, st. Charles
Parish: January, 1897, murdered and
robbed another Alexander Johnson,
Ellington Plantation, St. Charles Par
ish; June 20, 1897, murdered and rob-
bed Louis Zeigler, peddler, Ellington
Plantation, St. Charles Parish.
A HANGING IN MASSACHUSETTS.
GREENFIELD Mass) Jan. John
O'Neil. Jr., was hanged in the Franklin
County Jail to-day for the murder OF
Mrs. Hattie E. McCloud in auckland
on January Sth of last year. O'Nell
protested his innocence to the last.
Mrs. McCloud was found dead on the
highway on which she had been walk
ing from the village to her father s
farm. where she resided. There were
indications that she had been strangled
to death. O'NeI, 26 years of age, Of
bad repute. was arrested for the crime.
He had in his pockets sum of money
corresponding in amount to the sum
Mrs. McCloud was known to have had
when she was killed, and this proved a
strong link in the chain of circumstan-
tial evidence that led TO O'Neils con-
viction.
DEATH FROM STANDARDIZATION
ATLANTA (Ga), Jan. Z. = Thomas
Cyrus. colored, was hanged here at
11:40 a. m. The moose slipped from
behind his ears, and death resulted
from strangulation. He made no state
ment whatever on the gallows.
The crime for which Cyrus was
hanged was the murder of Annie John
son. a negro woman, who was en-
ployed at the home of Governor Atkin-
son as a domestic. The murder was
committed on the night Of June I'd in
a little cottage on Belle street in this
CITY. Cyrus was infatuated with the
woman. who had been his mistress for
some time On the evening Of June
Cd he went to Annie Johnson's home
and found another negro man in her
room. Cyrus asked for an explanation.
and failing to receive satisfactory
answer he drew a pistol and shot the
woman. She died the next day.
CONFESSED HIS CRIME.
ST. LOUIS, Jan IA special to the
post Dispatch" from cambridge, Ca,
saws: Simon Hopkins. colored, was
hanged here at IL 80 to-day. He made
n confession 10 the effect that he in
weighed a friend named Harris into a
swamp and killed him.