The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-28
There IS HOPE
FOR BATS0N.
Belief in His Innocence Of
The Horrible Murder
is Growing.

$. E. Renshay returned from
Lake Charles today noon and
states that the reported confess
ion of man by the name OF
jackson to the murder of the |
EARL family has created a furror |
in that city. People are talking
in an excited manner in little
groups.
Mr.. Renshaw says that Downs,
the horse dealer, who testified
that Batson had tried to sell him
some mules, and identified him
by the scar on his cheek, now
states that he distinctly remem-
bers that the party who offered
the animals had d scar on his
right cheek while the scar that
| Batson carries is on the left
cheek.
The followingis from the Lake
Charles Press of Saturday;
On the 23rd ms tant sheriff Per-
kins received letter dated at
Dallas, Texas and signed by
Henry L. Pond. This letter had
a direct reference GA. E. Batson,
who now lies under sentence of
death in the parish Jail. Sheriff
Perkins and Chief Deputy Rich
ard as soon as they received the
letter, put inquiries on foot, but
naturally kept the matter quiet.
However, the story that letter
had been received leaked out and
!. has gained such credence and
+ such exaggeration along the
: streets that the contents of the
; letter are given out:
. Dallas, Tex, Apr. q, 1902.
:. Mr.. Perkins,
Sheriff Calcasieu Parish,
Lake Charles, La
# Dear Sir:-I reside at Ethel
2 Parish of East Feliciana: La. land
Il left there yesterday morning
Z April goth, for the Veterans re
union at Dallas.
A few days after the discovery
al of the EARL murder and the ar
d rest of Batson, one Thomas Jack
< son, born and raised in our par
n. ish, and near Ethel, returned
home after an absence of a lev
months. On the tram from
Baton Rouge to Ethel he showed
- an acquaintance a roll of bills
v which he said contained $500 OF
re more, and also showed it tt
Of others near Ethel on the night O.
O. his arrival. He spent the nigh
o. at a mulatto woman's house, will
T. in about one mile of his mother
IS place. His brother had stor'
a, on the mothers place. The mex
s. morning at an early hour n
IL walked to the store and toun'
G. his brother sweeping it out
TX Without warning he drew III
tie pistol and shot his brothe
ne through the head, which she
Y. killed him immediately; the
ee standing over him he fired tn
in rest of the balls into his brother
body. He then walked Off to al
other negroes house, who we
he one of his associates, wrote lie
er ter to the sheriff stating what l.
90 had done and telling the sheri
to meet him at a certain place
the public road and he would su
render. The sheriff did as tol
- met Jackson and received d
ed surrender. Had two fine pisto
ale on him.
ED The day after the killing, Re
jhe |. II. Kearns, a brother ln-la
raj came up to the funeral. He Sta
: of ed that while attending a Meth
IAN dist meeting over at Crowley,
re- in the Welsh neighborhood, Tho
raj Jackson sent for him to come a.
see him. He did so, and Jacks
told HIM he had been doing we
but had saved up his money,and III
you had about 5000.
at jackson is a worthless char;
it's ter. having nothing to do WI
yer white people and only ASSOCIATE
Soft with negroes, with whom he sic
and oambled. He had no ira
or occupation, save that of neg
even gambler.
re- On the train of yesterday l n
% o of two respectable citizens OF c
move parish who stated to me that
IS at was reported around Clint
dds, that jackson had told She
p haSe Bennett that he killed the Ear
reral One of these citizens is the
Daw- ice Juror of the 9TH ward land
best other farmer from the 9th wa
sin dIs I think Jackson descript
it." would fill the bill for Batson v
rry' ,an