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J.J. Brevelle place of death]
title
J.J. Brevelle place of death]
Subject
Crimes
Date created ms
1930
Abstract
Digital image of a newspaper photograph depicting the place of death of J.J. Brevelle. Caption: "Place on lonely road 300 yards off the DeRidder-Sugartown highway and 6 miles east of DeRidder where Brevelle was hammered and stabbed to death."
Murder and trial in Ouachita Parish in 1816.
title
Murder and trial in Ouachita Parish in 1816.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Slaves, Homicides, Crimes, Judicial proceedings, Law & legal affairs
Date Issued
1870-11-12; 1807
Abstract
Text, November 12, 1870. An Old Pioneer's Story, 1816. Description of murder and subsequent trial in Monroe, Louisiana of Ouachita Parish. A Mr. Stephen Maddox married a Patsy Donivan after living for four years with a Miss Baker. The new Mrs. Maddox was found murdered in the year 1807 at the house of Miss Baker. Miss Baker was put on trail and eventually found not guilty. An African American servant forty years later confessed to the crime on this deathbed to the judge of the trial.
Resolution to forbid all slaves from playing rackets within the limits of municipality Number One in New Orleans Louisiana in 1836
title
Resolution to forbid all slaves from playing rackets within the limits of municipality Number One in New Orleans Louisiana in 1836
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Slaves, Documents, Organized crime, Crimes, Prisons
Date Issued
1836
Abstract
Text, May 13 to August 12, 1839. Journal of the First Municipality 1836. Council of the municipality Number One. Page 23. From May 13, to August 12, 1839. Sitting of August 5, 1839. Resolution to forbid all slaves from playing rackets within the limits of municipality Number One.
Murder of Captain De Hart in St. Mary Parish in 1841.
title
Murder of Captain De Hart in St. Mary Parish in 1841.
Subject
Homicides, Crimes, Victims of crimes, United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana
Date Issued
1841-10-31
Abstract
Text, October 31, 1841. Murder. Published in the Baton Rouge Gazette. Murder of Captain De Hart in St. Mary Parish in 1841.
Man sent to jail for beating a slave in New Orleans in 1845.
title
Man sent to jail for beating a slave in New Orleans in 1845.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Slavery, Jails, Crimes, Law enforcement
Date Issued
1845-02-12
Abstract
Article about a man, Adolphe Henry, sent to prison by Recorder Genois, for beating a slave and drawing a knife on the officers who arrested him in New Orleans.
Major Louis O. Heard at Crime lab at the state police department in Baton Rouge Louisiana circa 1950
title
Major Louis O. Heard at Crime lab at the state police department in Baton Rouge Louisiana circa 1950
Subject
Police, Criminal investigations, Crimes, Laboratories
Date created ms
1950
Abstract
B&W photo, circa 1950. Major Louis O. Heard at Crime Lab, State Police Department, Baton Rouge.
Article describing the duel between Judge Cooley and Colonel Rhett in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1873
title
Article describing the duel between Judge Cooley and Colonel Rhett in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1873
Subject
Gunfights, Firearms, Shooting, Homicides, Crimes, Death
Date Issued
1873-07-02
Abstract
Text, July 2, 1873. Article entitled: The Code. Duel between Judge Cooley and Colonel Rhett. Judge Cooley Killed. Article describing the duel between Judge Cooley and Colonel Rhett in New Orleans, Louisiana in which Judge Cooley is killed. A brief life history and description of the personality of the deceased Judge Cooley are provided as well.
Eighteen seafaring men charged with piracy
title
Eighteen seafaring men charged with piracy
Subject
Pirates, Boats, Prisoners, Crimes, United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana
Date Issued
1819-09-16
Abstract
Text, September 16, 1819. Eighteen men from the same vessel are charged with piracy and sent to prison. A list of the men's names is given.
Clementine Barnabet trial--officials think she had accomplice
title
Clementine Barnabet trial--officials think she had accomplice
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Crimes, Criminals, Criminal investigations, Homicides, Serial murderers
Date Issued
1912-04-03
Abstract
Article updating the public on the the trial of Clementine Barnabet, accused of murder of several adults and children. Discusses the public opinions about the murders and the murderer.
Double homicide and lynching of their alleged murderers in Vienna Louisiana in 1872.
title
Double homicide and lynching of their alleged murderers in Vienna Louisiana in 1872.
Subject
Homicides, Lynchings, Jails, Executions, Death, Crimes, Criminals, Violence
Date Issued
1872-03-16, 1872-03-23
Abstract
Text, March 16 & 23, 1872. Continuation of Double Homicide at Vienna. A description of Dr. Jackson and Mr. Huey, one a surgeon and the other a hotel-keeper, the murdered men. Another article follows describing the pursuit of a Mr. Peace and Mr. Whatley in which Whatley is killed and Peace is taken from jail and lynched.
Slave of is charged with attempting to decoy a slave girl from her master in 1852.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Slaves, Slavery, Law enforcement, Crimes
Date Issued
1852-05-29
Abstract
Text, May 29, 1852. Superstitions and Crime. William, a slave of Elijah Creswell, in New Orleans Louisiana is charged with attempting to decoy a slave girl from her master. William's methods of keeping the young woman faithful included talismans, charms and other statements concerning their eventual freedom together.
Murder trial for young slave for the killing of a white child in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1851
title
Murder trial for young slave for the killing of a white child in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1851
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Homicides, Children, Carts & wagons, Punishment & torture, Whipping, Accidents, Crimes, Death, Streets, Slaves
Date Issued
1851-07-10
Abstract
Text, July 10, 1851. Trail of a Negro for Killing a white child playing in the street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The trial was overseen by a special tribunal of slaveholders. The slave named Pompey accidentally ran over John Fitzgerald, son of James Fitzgerald, with a cart . He was sentenced to 50 lashes, one month in prison and fines his owner, Mr. Callender was made to pay. Published in the Daily Picayune.
Court of impeachment; articles of impeachment against Judge Thomas W. Chinn
title
Court of impeachment; articles of impeachment against Judge Thomas W. Chinn
Subject
Law & legal affairs, Crimes, Bribery, Impeachments, Judges, United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana
Date Issued
1826-06-06
Abstract
Text, June 6, 1826. Articles of impeachment against Thomas W. Chinn, parish judge in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. The document itself is dated April 3, 1826 but was published in June.
A man dressed as a woman from Caddo Parish was tried as a woman for petty crimes in 1877
title
man dressed as a woman from Caddo Parish was tried as a woman for petty crimes in 1877
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Sex, Cross dressing, Female impersonators, Crimes, Women's prisons
Date Issued
1877-11-02
Abstract
Text, November 2, 1877. Was She a Man, or Was He a Woman? The Question Settled. Description of a man dressed as a woman from Caddo Parish, who fooled the court system upon his arrest and was tried as a woman for petty crimes. The man's name was Ben Jane Jones. His entire life, the man had dressed like a woman and had a "voice [that] was feminine." The man's true gender was discovered upon his imprisonment in the women's penitentiary when the inmates there complained.
Infamous crimes, trials and punishments in Louisiana.
title
Infamous crimes, trials and punishments in Louisiana.
Subject
Law & legal affairs, Impeachments, Bienville, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de, 1680-1767, Prisons, Prisoners, Executions, Indians of North America, Punishment & torture, Criminals, Crimes, United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana
Abstract
Text, date unknown. Trial of Bienville. A history of infamous crimes and trials in Louisiana. The accounts include one of the first criminal trials in Louisiana against the Governor Bienville, who was impeached in 1707; the prosecution of Denis Braud, first printer of Louisiana; the trials and punishment of suicide, in which curators were appointed to represent corpses and an account of an Indian slave dragged through the streets as a punishment for taking his own life; and a few other odd or tortourous crimes against criminals.
Two young women of a disreputable house in New Orleans fight over a man and one is mortally stabbed in 1871.
title
Two young women of a disreputable house in New Orleans fight over a man and one is mortally stabbed in 1871.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Homicides, Prostitution, Crimes, Wounds & injuries
Date Issued
1871-01-28
Abstract
Text, January 28, 1871. A Woman Mortally Stabbed. Cutting Affray Between Females. Two young women, under the age of 18, "inmates of the disreputable house of Hattie Hamilton, engaged in a quarrel," during which one drew and knife and stabbed the other. The assailant was named Cora Howard and the wounded was Kitty Mead. The incident took place on the corner of Basin and Common Streets.
Saddlebags stolen from the home of James Colbert
title
Saddlebags stolen from the home of James Colbert
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Crimes, Criminals
Date Issued
1809-11-17
Abstract
Announcement that the saddlebags of Col. Joseph Vanmeter were stolen by George Lanehart from the home of James Colbert. This article states that no blame should be placed on James Colbert.
Murder of General St. John Liddell on a steamboat in 1870.
title
Murder of General St. John Liddell on a steamboat in 1870.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Homicides, Feuds, Steamboats, Crimes, Firearms, Death, Sheriffs, Insurance, Dueling
Date Issued
1870-02-19
Abstract
Text, February 19, 1870. Killing of General St. John R. Liddell. Published in the Ouachita Telegraph. Murder of General St. John Liddell on the steamboat "St. Mary's" a few miles South of Trinity Louisiana. Liddell was shot several times by Colonel Chas. Jones. The two men were involved in a feud regarding land fifteen years previous. The detailed article uses other passengers' and witnesses' accounts.
Death car
title
Death car
Subject
Automobiles, Crimes
Date created ms
1930
Abstract
Digital image of a newspaper photograph of a car. Caption: "Wreck of car which J.J. Brevelle was driving at the time he was killed, and in which his body was taken from DeRidder to Pickering where it was dumped in a mill pond, and which afterwards was abandoned and set on fire in a covered spot near the Sabine river ferry."
Crime lab at the state police department in Baton Rouge Louisiana circa 1950
title
Crime lab at the state police department in Baton Rouge Louisiana circa 1950
Subject
Police, Criminal investigations, Crimes, Laboratories
Date created ms
1950
Abstract
B&W photo, circa 1950. State Police Department, Baton Rouge, La. Crime lab.

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