St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-02-19
Parker Of Tangipahoa.
His Appearance Not in Keeping
With the Charges Against Him.

His Appearance. Not in Keeping
With the Charges Against Him.
Picture q bearded rufian, grim
of face, broad-shouldered, swart,
with murderous eyes and stern
fancy q shifting glance.
Call to mind assassins, robbers, ABB
ductors. When you have finished
you will have summoned before
your mental eye the very opposite
OF julius Parker, and yet Parker is
at present confined in the Parish
Prison charged with an assassina-
ton or so, murderous assault, rob-
berry and running away with .
young girl when he had q wife and
child.
Parker is under $1,000 bond for
charged completely in the killing OF
Sam Hyde in Tangipahoa. He is
under another bond OF the same di-
mansions for the affair OF the Hart
boys. He is wanted for tue assassi-
nation of Joseph Reid, and for muir
derously assaulting H. J. Saunders.
He has q wife and child, aud was
arrested in Meridian, Miss in
company with Miss Molly Kicks,
who had, prior to her flight with
him, taken all the money from
home she could get her hands on.
Parker when arrested at Meridian,
said he was willing to be brought
back to Louisiana without o requi-
sition on one condition, that lie
would not be taken back to Amite
City. He expressed the desire to
he locked up in New Orleans, and
this request was granted him. He
was taken to the Parish Prison OF
Friday afternoon A Times Demo
crat reporter visited him yesterday
afternoon.
i The reporter was prepared To-
the worst. He remembered tin
name that TaDgipahoa Parish has
He called to mind the bloody deed
that have been perpetratcd within
its borders, and mentally enumer
ated the heinous crimes with whlcl
the prisoner stands charged.
Imagiue his surprise when Parker
in answer to the summons walke'
into the rntunda of the prison ant
showed himself q straight, houes,
looking, bronzed young fellow wit
a very slight mustache, a mustach'
that hadn't been there long, an
that proved youth prima facie
! Parker looked the reporter straigll
/ in the face. The shifting glanc
. wss noticeable by its absence.
Parker didn't have much OF
state ment to make. He SAID h
was not ready to talk. He didn'
: deny that he had run away with til
l Kicks girl. He couldn't. He di
i not deny that he was married. bu
+ he said that he and his wife ha
e separated, an6 that he had person
: ally taken her to her mothers. He
father is dead.
"As 10 Miss Kicks, I have n0thin
, whatever to say" declared Parkel
: "except that l did not have an!
thing to DO with her taking an
= money away from home. She wi
;. tell you so herself. I had lit
money of my own, and didn't kno
that she had taken any until s!
/, told me.
= ..As to the killing of Mr.. Re
= and the otter charges against me,
: Will merely say that am innocen
!, intend making statement sou
!" day soon, but l am not quite reat
{ to do so yet. The last time l "
:, in New Orleans l made sta.eme
T. to reporter, and he put in abo'
T. five times as much as l said."
t. "Why didn't you want to
g taken back to Amite City 10 stat
re trial?" asked the reporter. ave
n, you afraid Of being lynched"
/ .'Not bit Of it," was Parker
ID reply. 81 was afraid of bel
IL cooped up in a dirty little cell
Sc by six. wanted to come where
n. least I would have room enough
lie move around ana get a little fire
!" AIR."
.'When you left Tangipahoa d
IN YOU mean to skip the bon0s y
re were under!"
Te II most certainly did not.
al told at least two dozen Of my frien
v tina. was going to leave, and IL
I would be back in June in pier
of time to stand :rial."
Parker declined the offer to pr
for a picture. He said that he b
had one picture in the paper alreao
anG the inference was. after his
mark, that the likeness was not
wv flattering one.
ON Parker will remain in the Par
Prison in New Orleans until Co
lu convenes in Washington Pari
~ when Le will be tried on the chal
of being one Of the party OF Il
.r who assassinated Joseph A. Reid
Nv that parish in December, 1897.