Sabine County Louisiana Archives News.....As Good as Dead October 5, 1886
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Galveston Daily News October 5, 1886
AS GOOD AS DEAD.

A Negro Fiend who Will Likely be Lynched at Once.
 
NEW ORLEANS, October 4.—A few days ago while Annie Nolan, the 4-year-old
daughter of a respectable farmer of Sabine parish, was playing in her father's 
field, she was seized by a burly negro, John Hawkins, dragged into the woods 
and criminally assaulted.  The little girl received frightful injuries; and 
when found by her friends some time afterward was in a dying condition. She 
was able to give an accurate description of her assailant, however, and the 
constable, at once started in pursuit.  The negro had stolen a horse 
immediately after committing the crime, and started for the Mississippi river, 
200 miles distant. The constable followed him on horseback, and trailed him 
the entire distance, capturing him yesterday at Hard Times landing.  The chase 
occupied four days, the pursuer and pursued averaging nearly fifty miles a day 
over rough roads.

Now that the officer has the ruffian he does not know what disposition to make 
of him.  If he is taken back to Sabine parish he will be lynched.  He will 
probably have to be imprisoned and tried in another parish away from the scene 
of hi» crime.

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