Blake, Franklin Parish, LA

Submitted by Lora Peppers

July 2000



Source: The Ouachita Telegraph 



 



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The Ouachita Telegraph

Saturday, June 10, 1871

Page 2, Column 5

FRANKLIN.





An imported Irish or Scotch laborer named Blake, who went to Franklin

last March, has come to grief.  As a man unscrupulous, as a laborer

worse than worthless and as a citizen a general nuisance, the people

gave Blake a warning to behave.  The Sun, of the 3rd tells the balance

as follows: Unscrupulous and intrusive, he went where he pleased and did as 

he

pleased, regardless as to who he pleased or displeased.  Taking a notion

to a widow in the neighborhood, he sought to marry her or possess her

any how, but he failed.  He then commenced to work on a young colored

girl, and, watching his opportunity, ravished her.  This act filled to

over-flowing the cup of public forbearance towards him.  He was brought

before Judge Lynch, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hung and his

body thrown into the Bayou, and the sentence was duly executed on last

Monday.