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Show The Louisiana Investigation. New Orleans, 4. Before the congressional con-gressional committee to-day, T. W. Abney, witness for the conservatives, read a written statement ol thoCou-abatta thoCou-abatta n flair. He denied that the prosperity of Coushatta was due to northern men. The settlement was more prosperous before they came than after. His account of the arrest and circumstances leading to it of the six men, and their subsequent mas acre, did not differ from the accounts ac-counts heretofore published in the Shreveport and New Orleans papers. |