| Show rr 10 and queer law 8 n 0 n dmn R d nDe cords man who committed suicide in 1738 was tried on murder charge in new orleans w t if you sometimes nes think our 4 t laws are drastic what do you 4 think about what they had to 4 I 1 stand for way back in 1738 i 4 new orleans even though the pre present ent day american Is so surrounded surround ea by laws laus that lie lias has to watch ills his step st ep nt at every turn he Is not so bad oft off fit after all tit in 1738 a n person in new kew orleans could not oven even commit suicide and go unpunished someone having asserted that tile the sixty seventh congress recently adjourned jour ned enacted new laws and with many state legislative bodies clearing their decks for action in order to add a few broadsides broad sides to the list of statutes inquiring persons here have been ex a luening musty old spanish and french official records in new N w orleans to ascertain how bow tile the people e of other das fared sentence dead man A man committed suicide here in 1738 and the records show that the courts tried him for taking a life lie was found guilty and it Is set r et forth that the inanimate body that held life too great a burden was vas sentenced to abandonment without burial petty theft involved a penalty of flogging throe three years imprisonment confiscation and a fine of 60 francs persons convicted of having shot or wounded an animal owned by another were sentenced to capital punishment As lu in these days and times a murderer was executed by hanging but execution tor for wife murder was by strangulation there was wag no law but for permitting his slaves to become intoxicated one man was forced to mount a wooden horse and was drawn through the streets while his neighbors laughed at him the wooden horse seems to have placed a prominent part in the punishment of petty criminals patients at the city hospital learned that meat had been consuming with it rel Vs awas was do dog and cat flesh one robert villeneuve a butcher who supplied the institution was baled before the court on a complaint filed by the patients who charged that they had bad been served roasted dogs the records show that villeneuve was mounted upon the wooden horse and given the same treatment received by the man m an who lind had permitted his slaves to become drunk in the case of villeneuve however his chest and back bore placards inscribed master blaster later eater of dogs and cats tie cat around neck after this punishment had bad been meted ait it the record further states that an old gray cot was hung around the hie neck ek of the culprit and finery tor for thelmen the omen played its part then as now for one document refers to the purchase by a father of seemly clothes for his eighteen year old daughter the parallel of the clothing problem then with that of the present day continues in this case tor for it seems tile purchase consisted of feathers and thread stockings the finery got into the records because tile father nent ent into debt tor for them and debt then was a crime it if one could not pay so reduced in circumstances cum curn stances was the parent that he reported to his creditor 1 I am on broth I 1 have but one chicken to kill tile the outcome of the could not be ascertained from the documents |
