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THE OPELOUSAS JOURNAL.OrELOUSAS. LA:.Saturday, • - • - April 9f 1S70.TAKDREW CO., 41 Piirk Row, New York, arc our Ag*-uts.WHARTON A CO., Merchants' Exchange Co'i Rooms. New Orleans, arc our Agents.Inducements (o Subscriber*.We will send to ench Cash Subscriber, for one year, iheJutftKAL and Ameruan Slock Journal.for..............................$2 2aJoL'RlCALand Suturday Ewing Post,for.............................. 3 COJOURNAL and Lady'* Friend, lor...... 3 GOtBLOODY WORK IN OUACHITA.The Jail at Monrce Broken Open — Sheriff Wianer and Offutt Johnson (a Colored Man) Killed.—A Man named Beavers Liberated.—Another * Man Killed in a Separata Aflray. 1Gov. Warrooth yesterday received the , fallowing dispatch from Monroe, in this l State, under date of March 31 :Winner, sheriff, and Offutt Johnson, wit- , ness In jail, kilKrd last night, and Beavers, | accused of murder, in jail, liberated by per- i sons unknown.Wimberly killed Jpst night, also, in a separate affray. Jons Ray.K explanation of the above we would { state, from information which we gleaned ; yesterday, from persons living, when at , home, at Monroe, that Beavers, who was . liberated by the gang who broke open the jail and did the killing, was in prison charged with having, on election day, in Mon roe, been one of a band who shot and killed three negroes who were supposed to have , been returning from the polls.The story gocs#that there were four no groes, Offutt Johnson one of the number, . « ho were paptured by the hand and taken | into the wood*, wh:re they wore placed in t position and fired at by a squad. Three of i the number were killed, but Johnson j springing aside, escaped the bullets, and | though pursued and shot at, managed to i make good his escape and give the al*rm. i The band made off for parts unknown, but t Beavers, who Johnson testified was one of s them, was subsequently captured and pi i- « ced in jail at Monroe. Johnson, through fear or for some other reason, also left for Texas, we believe, but he was also gubse . quently arrested and placed in jail, and held us a witness against Beavers when the trial , should take place.When the gang attacked the jail night t before last for the purpose ofliberating Bea- f vers, they were doubtless resisted by Slier . iff Wianer, who had the reputation of being a resolute and fearless man, and m thi** way moit probably he met his de.ith ut their , handsJohnson, I ho colored witness, was killed j either through revenge for the information v which he gave, or because the gang wished , to get rid of the only living witness against \ them. eThe man named Wimberly, m ntioncd at “ tho close of Mr. Ray’s d-spntch as haring been killed on the same night in h separate affray is reputed to have been a dangerous 1 character living in Monroe, a d was prnba I bly killed in a street brawl of some kind. G'.v. Warmoih will this morning pu' li h a proclamation offering a reward of $5000 f for the arrert of the murderers of Sheriff a Wiener and Johnson. fBy a telegram received by the Amocia'ed a Press, ar*f published under our head of ' “Telegraphic,” it will bo seen that the gang c consisted of some fifteen or twenty men, and that after they released Beavers they h barred the doors to keep the other prison ' era from escaping. cWimberly, it will be seen, was killed in a v private difficulty by a Dr. Dinkgrave. the particulars of which are unknown.—[Pica- » yunc, 1st insL e -
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The Opelousas Journal
Opelousas, Louisiana, US
Sat, Apr 09, 1870
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