owent to hold an inquest. I found the body of Jerry Myers hanging by the neck, dead. I collected a jury and cut him down. The evidence showed that the deed had been committed by a party of bull-dozers, who hung him in my opinion because he was a Republican. Within 100 yards of the house I found Samuel Myers … shot in the back with six balls … and dead. Both the deceased were honest, hard-working farmers; neither of them held any office, and had for the last five years put the first bale of cotton on the market in the parish. On the 17th I received a letter through the Post Office:

Mr. Ben Morgan, Coroner:

You will please bear in mind that your absence is required in the county, and I further inform you that if you are caught therein any more your fate shall be as those you came to hold your inquest over.

Yours truly,

Captain of Regulators.²²

This same report lists these murders alleged to have been committed by white regulators in East Baton Rouge Parish in 1876:

Jan. 5—Taylor Hawkins, murdered; Jan. 6—Major Selve, hanged; Jan. 14—John Jackson, shot; Jan. 16—George Washington, shot, then burned with oil; Feb. 3—Peter Henderson Painter, shot to death; Feb. 16—Johnson Stewart, shot dead; Feb. 17—Charley Robertson, hanged; April—Job Johnson, burned to death in his house and shot. Occurred in the 11th Ward where he was constable. Alice Gilbert was roped and threatened with hanging. April 13—W. Y. Payne taken from house, rope put around his neck, the other end tied to a saddle, and then dragged until he died when his body was thrown in the River. Sept. 1—Sanford Smith, Paul Johnson, Arch Stewart, shot to death.

One of the bloodiest riots on record occurred in St. Landry Parish where the Ku Klux Klan killed and wounded over 200 Republicans, hunting and chasing

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