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 search, tried to induce John Willis, a young Negro, to disclose the whereabouts of Julian.  He refused to do so, or could not do so, and was kicked to death by the gang.

AN INDIANA CASE

Almost equal to the ferocity of the mob which killed the three brothers, Julian and the unoffending, John Willis, because of the murder of Judge Estopinal, was the action of a mob near Vincennes, Ind.  In this case a wealthy colored man, named Allen Butler, who was well known in the community, and enjoyed the confidence and respect of the entire country, was made the victim of a mob and hung because his son had become unduly intimate with a white girl who was a servant around his house.  There was no pretense that the facts were otherwise than as here stated.  The woman lived at Butler’s house as a servant, and she and Butler’s son fell in love with each other, and later it was found that the girl was in a delicate condition.  It was claimed, but with how much truth no one has ever been able to tell, that the father had procured an abortion, or himself had operated on the girl, and that she had left the house to go back to her home.  It was never claimed that the father was in any way responsible for the action of his son, but the authorities procured the arrest of both father and son, and at the preliminary examination the father gave bail to appear before the Grand Jury when it should convene.  On the same night, however, the mob took the matter in hand and with the intention of hanging the son.  It assembled near Sumner, while the boy, who had been unable to give bail, was lodged in jail at Lawrenceville.  As it was impossible to reach Lawrenceville and hang the son, the leaders of the mob concluded they would go to Butler’s house and hang him.  Butler was found at his home, taken out by the mob and hung to a tree.  This was in the lawabiding state of Indiana, which furnished the United States its last president and which claims all the honor, pride and glory of northern civilization.  None of the leaders of the mob were apprehended, and no steps whatever were taken to bring the murderers to justice.