s escape to the swamps near
the city. He has never been apprehended, nor has any information ever been
gleaned as to his whereabouts. A mob determined to secure the fugitive
murderer and burn him alive. The swamps were hunted through and through in
vain, when, being unable to wreak their revenge upon the murderer, the mob
turned its attention to his unfortunate relatives. Dispatches from New
Orleans, dated September 19, 1893, described the affair as follows:

Posses were immediately organized and the surrounding country was
scoured, but the search was fruitless so far as the real criminal was
concerned. The mother, three brothers and two sisters of the Negro were
arrested yesterday at the Black Ridge in the rear of the city by the
police and taken to the little jail on Judge Estopinal's place about
Southport, because of the belief that they were succoring the fugitive.

About 11 o'clock twenty-five men, some armed with rifles and shotguns,
came up to the jail. They unlocked the door and held a conference among
themselves as to what they should do. Some were in favor of hanging the
five, while others insisted that only two of the brothers should be
strung up. This was finally agreed to, and the two doomed negroes were
hurried to a pasture one hundred yards distant, and there asked to take
their last chance of saving their lives by making a confession, but the
Negroes made no reply. They were then told to kneel down and pray. One
did so, the other remained standing, but both prayed fervently. The
taller Negro was then hoisted up. The shorter Negro stood gazing at the
horrible death of his brother without flinching. Five minutes later he
was also hanged. The mob decided to take the remaining brother out to
Camp Parapet and hang him there. The other two were to be taken out and
flogged, with an order to get out of the parish in less than half an
hour. The third brother, Paul, was taken out to the camp, which is about
a mile distant in the interior, and there he was hanged to a tree.

Another young man, who was in no way related to Julian, who perhaps did
not even know the man and who was entirely innocent of any offense in
connection therewith, was murdered by the same mob. The same paper says:

During the search for Julian on Saturday one branch of the posse visited
the house of a Negro family in the neighborhood of Camp Parapet, and
failing to find the object of their sea