White Man Broke Into Monroe Jail

Title

Source Type

Newspaper

Publisher

The Hattiesburg News

Publication Place

Hattiesburg, MI

Publication Date

07/25/1910

Transcript

WHITE MAN BROKE
INTO MONROE JAIL
And Carried Off Negro Woman, Whom
It Is Believed Was Thrown Into
River And Drowned.
(By Associated Press.)
Monroe, La., July 25.—An unidenti
fied man broke into the city jail here
early today and carried off Laura
Porter, a negro woman prisoner, keep
er of a resort where white men are
reported to have been robbed on sev
eral occasions. It is gneally believed
that she was thrown into the Ouchita
river and drowned.
The Porter woman had been warned
to leave town on several occasions
prior to her recent arrest on the
charge of larceny, and officers declare
that they had unearthed a conspiracy
which showed that the woman made a
practice of luring intoxicated white
men to her resort, where they were
beaten and robbed by negroes.
About the same time the city jail
was broken open, five short-term pris
oners made their escape from the
Ouchita parish jail,
are negroes, the other three white
men. Indicationes are that they we%
given tools and weapons by persons
outside the jail.
Apparently there is no connection
between the seizure of the negro wo
man at the city jail and jail delivery
at the parish prison. Both parish and
city officers are searching today for
some trace of the Porter woman, as
well as the prisoners who escaped.

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Laura Porter