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Show l'oisouiue and Lynching iu Louisiana, Clinton, La., 14. On the evening of the 11th, Saunders, ol this place was poisoned with a solution ot arsenic in a-dipper and bucket of water administered ad-ministered by one Catherine Mathews, Bister-io-law of John Ciair. When arrested she confessed her guilt, and said that John Gair and Kobert Ray instigated her to the act. The deputy sheriff and posse arrested John Gair in Baton Kouge, under a warrant from the authorities of this parish to bring him to Clinton. About night they were met by a body of fifty men or more, armed, who took from the deputy sheriff and posse their arms, and took possession of Gair, and sent the posse on to Clinton. It is said that Gair was killed by the men why took him from the sheriff, and the same body'of men or others came into town and hung the woman. |