Shot into his Victim's Coffin
Item
- Title
- Shot into his Victim's Coffin
- Source
- The sun (NY)
- Date
- 1900-06-10
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1900-06-10/ed-1/?sp=1&q=murder&r=0.233,1.177,0.201,0.096,0
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- murder; race
- Race of alleged offender
- black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- male alleged offender
- Race of alleged victim
- white alleged victim
- Gender of alleged victim
- male alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- lynch mobs
- Stage of the Legal System
- crime
- Location
- Out-of-State; New Orleans, Louisiana
- Length of story
- 533
- Description
- SHOT IXTO ma il n VICTIMS VtrlS COFFIN cornxMetro COFFINNur COFFINNegro Metro Nur Evidently PYIenU Insane Shoot Sboot Right BIIh and aal Itt IttKills rl LeftlLihIs Kills ltt On Han Ian and I Is Pirsaed Pauue by a Posse POMNEW Po PoSE PosseNxw NEW SE Onuciss OnLJ June Jun 9 DOret 0Great Great excitement excitementprevail ectent ectentpreVUo excitementprevails prevail preVUo In t West Baton Bton Rouge ROle parish plh and ad a alarge alaree alarge large part prt of tho ho population ppulaton Is I under uder arras arrasMorclilng as asl armssearching searching l cJI for a negro murderer muderer named name Noah NoahPrltchard NoahPritchard OM OMPrith Prltchard Prith who murdered rurdae a young fOu white wble man manRalph ma manIzaiph Ralph Raph Marler 1laler ou Thursday 1hura4Y apparently appenl with without wit without out cause Oue The To murder mud occurred ocurre at It Duvall Duvalland Duvnl Duvnlad Duvoiland and ad was done with Uh a rifle rlfe Prltchard Prllchad fired fed In Indiscriminately IndlclmlnlJy indiscriminatejy discriminately dlclmlnlJy at lt those tbOe he met and od f1 nd d to tothe tolhe tothe the woods wo Last Lt night nlth he returned rEturnfd to Duvall Dual Dualand Dusalland Duvalland and visiting vlltn the tl house houo where wbee the tu body bo bodyot of young youngMarlnr youngMetIer OUD Marlnr Mallr was Wi opened opned fire le on the to corpse corps crazing crazingIt rvl several bullets Into the coffin coffinThere cotnThere It and ad putting putUI vern buUel It cmn There were no men rcn about abut only ony women sitting sittingup sittingup lllr lllrup up attack attackWhen attackIVben with wit the corpse cp who ho fled te at Prltchard Prltchardattack Plthnda Plthndaatt Pritchardsattack att When several men came ce up In reply to t the thescreams te teIlrer thescreams Ilrer screams of vra the women omn Prltcnard Plchad rpy opened fire fireSouge fro froun firein un in them tod dod t to the river bank sotsed opne a It akin akinand ld and tem crossing the t rivr river e escaped btl t to so 1ast t Baton BatonHoUe BatonItouge Souge Itouge oOI A P0 posse poa e Bttd started op afr after hi him After Atlr Alterho Aftero ho o had IeTrely severely wouded wounded a deputr deputy sheriffand sheriff sheriffand 10 ad and let sent bullet bulet through te the coat coa1 0 of severalothers several severalother ae other olhee of hL hU pu pursuers uor ho succeeded I in tnra Wdln4 hidingin hiding hidingIn In a wood nea near Zacho Zachary suce He I U lurroudl surrounded surroundedby I h by 1 a wo largo lare nubr number of ame armed men ad and there te thereis thrU U little chac chance of hi his escapeAs escape L As I tte a consequence Ocp of the Prltchard Prlohad affairconsiderable affair affairconsiderable 1 cOueo te considerable cOMlderabl race rae friction frcton prevails In aar aarcOMlderabl West WestBaton WMBalol WtBaton Baton Balol Rouge ROIe and ad resulted rlute today tday prevas in I the to kill killing kWlr killhug hug lr t4 tation tationDYNAMITE of a negro named Dad Mason Mon on the te Rosa RCa plan planDYXAMlTf pla plantation
