The San Francisco call., 1898-01-08
One Fiend Called Creole Who Confessed to Nine As
 SaSSinatiOnS.
SOME OTHER EXECUTIONS
All the Men Legally Put to Death but Two, Who Fell Into the Hands
 Lynchers.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 7-Three ne | gro murderers died on the scaffold al ] 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 Washington and ! Foxy Morris, also negroes, he was sentenced to death for murdering and robbing a Jewish peddIer named Zeig- | Ter, last June, on Ellington plantation, near Hahnville. The murderers were traced by the discovery of Zeigler's goods in the possession of their female companions.
 Creole confessed, duplicating the other two, and with his statement the authorities obtained conclusive evil dence of their guilt
 Creole also confessed that since 1884 he had murdered at least nine men and one colored woman on various plantations. His victims were princi- pally Italians and Jews, who made a living by peddling among plantation negroes. Close investigation revealed that his confession was entirely cor rect, and it cleared up numerous mur- der mysteries of years ago. Here is a list of Creole's crimes, given by himself:
 April 2, 1884, wounded Albert White. SmartsYille, La
 May, 1888. murdered and robbed Pat tison, colored. Melville, La. In 1892, sentenced to one year in the penitentiary for robbery.
 December IS, 1893, killed unknown tramp, white, Melville, La
 January D. 1885, murdered Mary Par ker, Ellington plantation, St. Charles Parish.
 July IS, 1896, murdered and robbed Roccina, Spaniard, Luling, St.
 December IA, 1896. murdered and robbed Alexander Johnson, Ellington plantation, St. Charles Parish.
 January, 1897, murdered and robbed another Alexander Johnson, Ellington plantation, St. Charles Parish.
 June 26, 1897, murdered and robbed Louis Zeigler, peddler, Ellington plan tation, St. Charles Parish.
 ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 7.-Thomas Cy- rus, colored, was hanged here at 11:40 a. m. The moose slipped from behind his ear and death resulted from stran- gulation. He made no statement what ever on the gallows.
 The crime for which Cyrus was hanged was the murder of Annie Johnson, negro woman, who was em- ployed at the home of Governor Atkin- son as domestic. The crime was com mitted on the night of June 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 he went to her home and found. another negro man in her room. Cyrus asked for an explanation, and, failing to receive a satisfactory answer, drew his pistol and shot the woman. She died the next day.
 MERIDIAN, Miss, Jan. 7.-Watts and Sam Cole, colored men of Neshoba County, were lynched in Pearidge, Kemper County, a few days ago.
 Watts and Cole went to. Pearidge to visit relatives, and became too friendly with their kinsmen's wives. Their lynchers are said to have been colored men,
 ST. LOUIS, Jan. "A special to the st-Dispatch from Bainbridge, Ga, says: Simon Hopkins, colored, was hanged here at 11:30 to-day. He made a confession to the effect that he in veigled a friend named Harris into a swamp and killed him.