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| alKew Iberia was last week the i*1scene of excitement and bloodshed, j Mr. James W. Trainor,* most es-i fa is i timable young mac, was foully mar ty n dered by a megro named Samuel! * Wakefield, eon-of tho negro senator of that name. The murderer was promptly arrested, but while on the way to jail he was taken from tho officers by a mob of angry moo who lost no timB in shooting him to death. That night all the negro saloons and barber shops were get* ted by a mob, and twelve disreputable characters warned to have the State immediately. It was rejiorled here on \V edncMay that one of these parties who was hmlhardy enough lo remain, wis caught and hung on Tuesday night. Such occurrences are truly deplorable, and if they are ueoet«urj, as we suspect, why don't the good citizens make a clean sweep of all disreputable chaiactersln one wholesale job, and put an end'to such spasmodic outbreaks which do so much to injure the fame and disturb the business of a cornmunitj.srclHTinray«q«Thralla!aL;T*A „ll ..... .
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The Meridional
Abbeville, Louisiana, US
Sat, Feb 02, 1889
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