The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-02-21

DdIuSuSI, his vile, SUI anu uduSu-
ter. The arrest was brought about
through the son complaining that
the old man had tried to kill his
wife as he had killed the Andrus
family" The old man was tried for
murder, the members of his family
being the witnesses against him. The
son sWore the father sent him to the
Andrus cabin for his pipe the morn
ing of Feb. "a, but when he got there
the police were in possession. He
also testified that when he returned
and told his father that Andrus and
his wife were dead the old man said,
Yes, and the rest of the tribe is
dead, too"
On the evidence of the old man S
family Barnebet was found guilty of
murder in the first degree.
When the convicted man was ask
ed by the judge if he had anything
to say why sentence of death should
not be passed upon him the old ne
gro staggered to his feet and pleaded
so earnestly that he was innocent
pointed out so clearly that the only
witnesses against him were the mem
bers of his family and urged so con-
vincingly that they wished to get
rid of him that the Judge forthwith
set aside the verdict and ordered a
new trial, which is set for April.
The girl Clementaine especially
seemed so unnaturally anxious to
fasten the crime on her father that
many were led to believe that she
was the actual murderer or was
deeply implicated.
If the various crimes, the butcher
ing of whole families, were really
bloody links in a long chain of mas
sacres as they seem to have been
then one must doubt the guilt of
Barnebet.
Another Family Butchered.
The trial of old man Barnebet was
over before this whole sec
ton of Louisiana was Mortified and
the negroes driven to a frenzy of fear
by another wholesale butchery in
Lafayette.
Norbert Randall, his wife and
three children lived in the thickly
populated negro settlement in the
west end of the city. He was
Woodworking, respectable negro and
his wife was an intelligent, quiet
woman, liked by those frr whom she
worked. Both were active church
members.
Latest in the Awful Chain.
Several similar crimes have fol-
lowed the bloody murders. The lat
est link 20 be forged in the frightful
chain of Wholesale slaughter
no one believes it will be the last
was the butchery of Felix Broussard,
his wife and three children at Lake
Charles. This crime was committed
during the night of Jan. 20. Prac-
tically the only variation in this from
the preceding murders lay in the
fact that the murderers had placed
buckets beneath the beds to catch
the blood of the victims.
An Inscription.
On panel of the front door is an
inscription in pencil in trained
hand in quotation marks
when He maketh inquisition for
blood He forgetteth not the cry of
the humble"
Below this inscription but SEEM
ingly in different hand is the name
Pear Osot." Nearby in almost il
legible writing is what appears to
be Humans"
Whether or not these these in
scriptions have any connection with
the murder has not been determined.
The negro neighbors do not remem-
Der to have seen them previous to
the discovery of the crime.
The "Sancti1ed Sect has been
particularly active in Lake Charles
and almost within a stones throw of
the Broussard cabin is the dilapidat-
ed shell of building which had been
given them for a church and which
they were preparing to move to an
other site. Work on this ceased i'm
mediately after the murder. A ne
gro named Crockett is the minister
and holds meetings at his house.