The true Democrat. [volume], October 23, 1909, Image 2

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The True Democrat.
i.:LlE ROBINSON " N Eitors.
MRlS. MAY E.ROIIINSON ors.
O()lcial Journal of the Parish of West Feli P
icana. the Towns of Bayou Sara and St. Fran- '
clsville. and of the School Hoard.
We also own and publish Slaughter Enter.
rise,a weekly newspaper for the town of
Slaughter. La. Advertisers will do we to get r
joint rates for both papers. F
Entered at the Post Office at St. Francisville,
La.. as second class mail matter. a
Subscription $1.50 Per Year in Advance. ii
Saturday, October 23, 1909.
ii
A: gentleman in conversation
said that the difference between
Louisiana and Georgia. (his na
tive state) is that in Georgia the
wagons go to town full, in Louisi
ana they go empty and return
home full. It is the difference
between a one-crop and an all
round crop country, a country
that lives and dies on credit and
one that pays its way as it goes.
The wagon that goes to town full
of home-raised products and re
turns with only such commlnodi
ties that cannot be produced at
home means a fuller i)ocket-book I
than an empty wagon coming in
and a full one (and perhaps a full
driver) returning with produce
that should have been raised on
the farm, a string of debits on
the town merchant's ledger, and
an empty pocket-book most of
the year.
If any Southern man has $1,000
to spare for the benefit of thel
South, let him put it into some
local undertaking for the better
ment of his own community, for 1
the implrovement of roads or
streets or for the maintenance of
his local papers, which are al
ways doing more than their 1
share of public-spirited and un
paid work, or his local business
organizations, in' order that by
accomplishing things at home a
more favorable impression may
be made upon men of energy
and capital who may be drawn 1
by seeing local peolle . doing
things at home to join in the
good work. Let the South stop
chasing rainbows and filling the
pot at the end of them with gold
for some one else.---Manufactur
ors. Record.
State Supt. Harris has found
money from "outside the state"
to provide an inspector for the
lower grades of the public
schools. It's a dull month when
some new wheel is not added to
the already compilicated machin
ery of public education in Louisi
ana.
'The United States Supreme
Court has decided that an
amount owed in a deal in futures
is not collectible, as it is a viola
tion of the anti-gambling laws of
Mississippi and Tennessee. A
real estate owner in Memphis
escapes paying a debt of over
forty thousand dollars in that
way.
The legal hanging in Tangilpa
hoa last Friday was the first one
since 1677. A country must
either he no less than heaven, or
just as lawless as Tangipahoa
was, in order to have such a rec
The second trial of Fabian F.
Bouvy at Plaquemine for the
killing of Prof. Van Ingen has
been ended by a verdict of man
slaughter. All salacious details
were excluded. An appeal will
be taken on technicalities.
The time has come to think
deeply of what to crop next year.
No man will ever solve the prob
lem unless he decides to make
his farm self-sustaining.
('omnander Robt. Peary has
filed his papers at Washington
concerning his discovery of the
Pole. Copenhagen insists on get
ting the first view of the proofs
of Dr. Cook's observations.
Gov. Sanders is in New York
seeing the sights. The sights
are also seeing him.
Wyatt H. Ingramin Jr. has been
convicted of embezzlement on
two cIharges.
ATROCIOUS CRIME UNEARTHED.
(( 'ontinuled f1rom IIh'st Iia;le.)
Pipes of Jackson were in St.
F'rancisville all day Tuesday. t
They declined to express them- r
selves to the press, Later to a
Times-Democrat reporter, Mr.
Pipes is reported as saying: 1
"Dr. McKowen never gave me
any reason to believe that he was
insane. But if he is guilty of
this murder, which I do not be
lieve, he must be insane. I have
never considered him eccentric
even. He has had a fine medical
practice for many years, and
none of his patients even sus
pected him of insanity or they
would not have trusted them
selves to his ministrations."
The arrest of Dr. McKowen
recalls to general notice the
anonymous letter scandal in
Jackson, last year, which rent
that community in twain, and
engendered bitterness and ill
feeling among the best p)eople of
the town and p)arisil. For a
period of some months in 1908,
there was an outbreak of anony.
mous letter-writing, the vilest
effusions being addressed to
many of the most I)rominent peo
ple in the town. Complaint was
made to the postal authorities,
and investigation was made and
Dr. McKowen was indicted on
two charges of this kind in the
Federal court at New Orleans
and his case assigned to the
Federal court at Baton Rouge.
At two terms of the court the
trial was continued, but it is
scheduled to come up at the
November term. On the night
of Oct. 3, 1,9)O, an explosion of a
bomb occurred on the premises
of Dr. McKowen. He exhibited a
wound which he claimed to have
received by the explosion of the
bomb, which was very crudely
constructed out of an old pot and
some wire. A number of the
townspeople unwilling to suffer
the imputation of committing
such an outrage employed a de
tective, who expressed the opin
ion formed on his investigations
that no real assassination had
been attempted. On the other
hand, Dr. McKowen had em
ployed a detective of the Mc
Mahon agency in his own inter
est, who made counter claims
and assertions.- Nothing definite
came of it, although for a while
trouble was momentarily ex
pected, but which simmered
down to a tense and never-forgot
ten feeling between the two fac
tions-those who believed in Dr.
McKowen's entire innocence and
those who did not.
Dr. McKowen gave an article
to the newspapers at the time of
the occurrence in which he stated
that he wonild shortly make some
startling developments and inti
mated that he would take legal
action against some of his ene
mies. He never did so, and the
public was waiting for devel
opments of the case at the ex
pected trial at the November
term of the Federal Court.
Whether the crime of which Dr.
McKowen is now accused, is con
nected with the former charges
against him, remains to be prov
en. It is however certain that
an intimacy existed between the
physician and the demented man,
as the latter on the occasions
when he visited town always
I stated that he did so to visit Dr.
McKowen.
The prominence of the Mc
Kowen family in East Feliciana
and their great influence in every
phase of its life, political, com
mercial, religious and social, at
taches overwhelming interest in
the present case. Dr. McKow
en himself is widely known as a
skillful physician, and has a large
practice, enjoying the great con
fidence of his patrons. Be was
formerly president of the East
Feliciana School Board and is
still a membe,' of that body, rep
resenting his home ward. He is
a director of the Bank of Jack
son and a man of practical tinan
cial ability. In a word, there are
few men who are so well hated,
or so well-loved, as this promi
nent man. He has hosts of
friends, who stand by him
through all his troubles, and who
refuse to believe any ill of him.
Many other good friends, who
have hitherto stoutly maintained
his innocence, staggered by the
array of circumstantial evidence
adduced in the p)resent case, de
clare that if it is possible that he
can have committed so heinous a
crime, that it is an evidence that
he is insane, This hypothesis is
largely accepted. Dr. McKowen,
by advice of counsel, has made
no statement, except a general
denial of the charge at the be
ginning, and preserves an air of
calmness and even inidifference
to the grave issue that now con
fronts him. Many of his friends
visit him at the jail to show their
sympathy and interest, but the
all important subject is not
broached. Mrs. McKowen visit
ed him on Wednesday, and if lie
remain in jail, will come to St.
Francisville to be near him.
Those, who theorize on the J u d
son murder case, account for the
finding of the body at that par
ticular point, by supposing that
it was brought there to be laid
on the track before the passing
of the Bayou Sara Accommoda
1 tion at 9:30, but by some miscal
e culation was prevented. The up
' train Sunday night was late and
did not pass Wakefield till 10:20,
and there were people all about
P there at that hour and as late as
11 o'clock. Colored carpenters
from town, employed on the new
schoolhouse at Wakefield, came
up on the train and passed over
the spot where the body was af
3 terwards found but saw nothing
e of it.
2 Mr. Judson's only sister, Miss
Alice Judson of Crowley, La.,
was notified by Dr. Pierson of
e her ill-fated brother's deplorable
end, and started for St. Francis
ville, coming by way of Jackson
and arriving Wednesday morn
ing. Miss Judson is a fine little
woman, refined, cultured and
broad-minded. She displays no
animosity to the alleged murder
er of her brother, but says if he
is guilty he should be punished
in the interests of justice; if mor
n ally responsible, rigorously; if
e insane, he should be confined
' where he cannot injure others.
. She will probably employ coun
d sel to assist in the prosecution.
She returned to Jackson Thurs
Sday morning to attend to several
- matters of business concerning
.her brother, and probably left
d Friday for her home at Crowley,
where she is employed as a steno
grapher in the office of a promi
le nnt legal firm. She will most
f likely have her brother's body
d removed to Grace Cemetery after
e the expiration of the required
period. The authorities regret
Sted the necessity of burying him
I1 before her arrival, but had no
- option as they could not get into
e cor m unication with her.
1. Judge Brunot has been asked
to give a prelimlninary hearing of
the case at the earliest possible
r date, but as he is busy holding
t. court in Baton Rouge, it may be
. some little time before hIe is
. ready to do so.
s It is possible that Gov. San
ders will have the Atty. General
assist in the prosecution, as Jud
it son was a wam'd of the State.
Notice of Judgment.
Mirs. Katie Davidson Temlpel.
vs.
Jno. Q. Tempel, her husband.
This cause came on to be heard up
on plaintiff's petition for a Separa
tion of Property:
When after hearing the pleadings
and the evidence: the Court consider
ing the law and the evidence to be in
favor of the plaintiff for the reasons
this day, orally assigned: It is there
fore ordered adjudged, and decreed
that there be judgment in favor of
plaintiff Mrs. Katie I)avidson Tempel
and against defendant Jno. Q. Tempel
her husband, decreeing a dissolution
of the community of acquets and gains
heretofore existing between them, and
a Separation of Property between the
said plaintiff, and the said defendant:
costs to be paid by defendant.
Judgment read, rendered and signed
in open Court this 13th day of c)eto
ber, A. D. 1909.
GEtO. J. WOODSIDE,
Judge of the 24th Jud. Dist. Court.
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Jeff Franklin, a negro on L. W.
Peebles' place, caused consider
able excitement Saturday night
in the Fourth Ward by attempt
ing to murder his wife on the
public highway. Franklin and
his wife had had some trouble,
and she left and went to the
Stewart place to avoid him.
Franklin followed and was or
dered off the place. He went for
his shotgun and secreted himself
in the underbrush along the I
roadside. Hearing his daughter
and another woman coming, he
fired upon the larger of the two,
thinking it was his wife, but it
proved to be Jane White, another
negro woman. After seeing his
mistake, he fled and is still at
large. The woman, Jane White,
is filled full of small shot from
her waist down.
A negro, Henry Scott, was ar
rested and lodged in jail, Wed
nesday night, by Marshal G. S.
Davidson. The negro attempted
to pass a check for $20, on M.
& E. Wolf. The check was filled
in on one of the Bank of West
Feliciana's forms, and was writ
ten in red ink. The negro rep
resented that he had received the
check from the J. F. Irvine Co.,
in payment for a skiff. The
signature was neither spelled nor
worded correctly, and the whole
is a bungling piece of work.
Suit is to be brought by the
State to annul the sale of the
lands of the Tensas Levee Board
to the Tensas Land Company.
Beautiful weather for clearing f
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Taft is riding cow ponies and
playing golf while the rest of us
struggle to scare up the illusive
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