| Show QUICK VI WREAKED ON A LOUISIANA STATE SENATOR of the lh tragedy 1 that its II 11 etly a abol karlh ITe wath alth coar or r 1 ew I I 1 otillia sli l N mot 9 lo 10 mob kul the killing 0 I 1 senator basile la plate place by an armed mob near new or irani loans rett recently bai has naturally created very intense ex excitement ott ement throughout st 81 charles parish here lere the crime was perpetrated mr laplac e has ha not been a resident of that parish very lone long but bis his loan long with tate state and district politics poll tica made him a familiar r OK cg ure are before the public the method of 0 execution adopted by the crowd was to uy say he the leant cos cowardly ardly but the provocation rumored it is given by the people aa no justification for action of the mob about a ear or two RO senator lot la place came from st 81 john pari 1 tila to the old ormond plantation which he purchased from jam jains mccutcheon Cutcheon Ic mr laplace at the time of the purchase pur chale found that famond and his family of elpha elect thildred ere living la in a portion of the old plantation nl rest deace thee these occupant were not die dis on the conti contrary mr became the manager roa of tho the estate and superintended u per intended the tb planting of this ears rice crop among these eight children who are tire motherless mother leee there Is one who ho has lived at tho 1113 age of won womanhood angood alse 1 lydia ie a woman of very attractive presence and constant association a lack of worldly knowledge and a delre desire lor for the ad vantage vantages to be secured by more fortunate financial conditions paved way to an intimacy which ended la in tho the terrible crime clr croxier la is a roan man who bite rm not ln boon ORI in R r position lon to learn many of the way aye of the world lie ile often warned his young daughter of the dangoia which might arlee from too constant coni tant companionship she fite paid no attention to the warning for the she wai was only a simple country maiden and could not thoroughly un no der stand some weeks e ago mr nir wa a taken eick sick with rheumatism the result of the long ion labors in the rice field one day he held a long talk with sill bis his daughter and at the same time told her that he be would lac I ae the plantation and find some safer place tor for his chit drea to live ala mla ldla later in the day wrote a reply to her father telling him ehe she did not intend to leave ormond plantation at all but would remain where her heart dictated that morning about 9 clock sir aud and the aasen remaining children departed they wen ere driven to the tore store kept by numa Zer angne which ie Is sit bated a mile further down the road Is a brother in law of 0 miss 1 remained at the plantation house ith till basile laplace and augustine calliet abo ho is t t me keeper the plantation reel dence ie to rather oddly constructed there are two brick wines wings built separately from the main body of the house which la is a long building extending parallel with the river bank the ing to the right e r SENATOR LAPLACE wag was occupied by senator laplace while the other wing occupied by calliel Call let about 9 clock in the evening senator laplace and mies MISS were seen for the last time by calliet these three occupant occupants of the house retired about 9 0 clock and hardly an hour later caillet beard heard senator laplace call to him get up we ae have got to go out caillet jumped from his bed and began drewing senator laplace had previously gone to the treat froat gallery which Is reached from his room by a narrow walk alk before caillet could dress he heard voices in the front aard ard at th that at time he heard senator laplace cry out A voice fald said lets get the other I 1 he ile thought that meant him and it he e ran donn the back stairs and out into the celd field he ile had hid looked out ot of a wildow and saw some thirty five live uen drag ging bis his employer these n en ell seemed to be maska but he could not see if they or black that was wa the last b he aw saw of senator laplace un until 4 a clock in the morning is fen en he found the bod ot of the planter I 1 taing ing flat upon this back in the public road directly in front of the house the house Is situated about TOO feet from the road I 1 cailler Call letl thought that the mob wanted to I 1 him alo alto and for that reason hid in the fields M ben the plantation belle bolls rang rang in the morning he returns to the quarters where eight families are and he called the people to accompany him they crossed the w vide ide lane which separates the laborers cabins from the residence and they walked down don the pathway to the road in trint of the levee the 1 levee was crossed and the rapture searched but no trace of ill the kimsing planter was found ills rooms bad had been previously searched and miss 1 Trox lere a room was as also found to 0 be empty nhen hen they returned from the river bank the er tire party walked down a ramp at tl t e hera head of the lane and near the drain ala ditch of the lavoo hc found the body it wu was tp 0 r f eardly 5 lock in tue its morning benator laplace was lying on bis big hack bael bis his feet apart and hie big arms extended at right angles near him was bis his cane which he al at way ays carried and about twenty feet away lay a white handled revolver mr nit calliet printed to carry the body to the home houte but was as told that the coroner would object for this reason the remains were ere allowed to lie ile where they were fc to 1 until the arrival of two member of the finally family robert beltran and nd albert laplace Lap tate about I 1 0 clock A heavy rain came up during th mornin morning and be body lay facing the be heaven heavens hick the laud mud pattered some time after the mob td tiled carried out its it it biblo plan aisis re dented and albed over the mile wile of country road to whore her ber father and sitters had gone it wai was rr mid night when ahe she knocked oo 00 tie the cloned closed door nut but abe she niss a admitted and Is I 1 now living with the tb f it I 1 i y upon whom the be brought auch such borrow sorrow calliet after discovering the body of senator laplace rode rods down to the r reit deLce of judge rost four our mile miles do down n the river and from judge hoit rost 5 bouse house the members of the laplace fam ily were notified in sew ew orlean orleans judge rost alao also notified the coroner of the parish and before noon an inquest vias aa bold held it nai found that the rna tor had bad been killed by a u Win theater t ball 11 that wa was fired directly against the ack back his coat cost bad had been burned and the bullet penetrated raed the intestines and aa as flattened d agal against lIst a re in the right pocket of bit his trousers the mob bad evidently overlooked this weapon from the few facts to rattier it la Is believed that senator laplace waa was induced to leave the house lie walkin dol the ard ard wai was seized by the members ct f the mob III ilia handa hands were bound ith a cotton rope tied in a bailor sailor a knot and thia this rope wa was found by the bod there were no marks on the hanla han la and for this F C A n W TRO LEIl LEIt reason it la to believed that the arm arms were ali at the elbow elbows the startling facts connected with the horrible shooting Bho otine all cor eor ro borated by mr droxler in on of the noet most diamatit dram atit stories heard I 1 in years lie ile related the little incident incidents chith the way to the assassination lie ile wa was so terri terribly uly shocked at the die dis caery that he knew not what to do then he decided to leae leaie the place but his hi eldest daughter dau ahter refused to ac compan him he ile blamed the deceased for thin thip resolution but expressed sin aln cere regret at the occurrence sickness aad kept him confined to his room all thesda and tuesday night he ile knew nothing until hl his daughter pounded upon the door heartbroken and begged togged to be allowed lovied al to return during his etory story he broke down and crad like a child lie ile pointed out his position a poor man with ith eight children who vi ere motherless mot herleM without a home without money and crushed by a sorrow that Is more terrible than even his sympathetic friends can realize subsequently applied to judge rost tor for a position as stable keeper and asked for the use ot of a building to place ills family the people of the parish believe that if the facts as given are true the action ot of the mob bad had some excuse but they condemn the cowardly means adopted to accomplish this result sult mra mrs laplace widow of the dead senator drove fifteen miles from lap ice plantation vi with ith her hildren and accod panted the remais remains to new orleans abille alle senator I laplace owned the ormond plantation he be spent hobt ot of hie blis time at laplace station in st john parish an I 1 only left that point the sunday before the tragedy J H MEAD |
