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Court is now in session
title
Court is now in session
Subject
Judicial proceedings, Clothing & dress, Witnesses
Date created ms
1930-02-25
Abstract
A group of people on a street corner conducting a trial. The trial is between an insurance company and a woman involved in a traffic accident at this location.
Murder and trial in Ouachita Parish in 1816.
title
Murder and trial in Ouachita Parish in 1816.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Slaves, Homicides, Crimes, Judicial proceedings, Law & legal affairs
Date Issued
1870-11-12; 1807
Abstract
Text, November 12, 1870. An Old Pioneer's Story, 1816. Description of murder and subsequent trial in Monroe, Louisiana of Ouachita Parish. A Mr. Stephen Maddox married a Patsy Donivan after living for four years with a Miss Baker. The new Mrs. Maddox was found murdered in the year 1807 at the house of Miss Baker. Miss Baker was put on trail and eventually found not guilty. An African American servant forty years later confessed to the crime on this deathbed to the judge of the trial.
Display of a project concerning re-indexing court records in Iberville Parish in the 1930s
title
Display of a project concerning re-indexing court records in Iberville Parish in the 1930s
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Judicial proceedings, Documents, Flags
Date Issued
1930, 1939
Abstract
B/W photo, 1930s. Display of a project concerning re-indexing court records. Sponsored by the Iberville Parish Police Jury and the WPA
Four jurors: the result of two days labor; J.M. Seligman, Soloman J. Mayer, John Berry Jr., and Frank W. Pfister chosen as jurors in the Hennessy case
title
Four jurors: the result of two days labor; J.M. Seligman, Soloman J. Mayer, John Berry Jr., and Frank W. Pfister chosen as jurors in the Hennessy case
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Judicial proceedings, Courtrooms, Juries
Date Issued
1891-02-19
Abstract
Text, February 19, 1891. An accounting of long hours of proceedings in a court in New Orleans, Louisiana, choosing jurors for the Hennessy shooting case. Descriptions of the many people questioned is included.
Superintendent David C. Hennessey
title
Superintendent David C. Hennessey
Subject
Police, Law enforcement, Kidnappings, Trials, litigation, etc, Judicial proceedings
Date Issued
1890-10-16
Abstract
Text. Superintendent David C. Hennessey. His study of the criminal classes and their misdeeds. Capture and Kidnapping of Esposito. The firing upon the Matranga Party by the Provenzanos, police friendship with the accused, and biographical information about Hennessey
Decisions of the Grand Jury presented to the Criminal Court of New Orleans in 1841.
title
Decisions of the Grand Jury presented to the Criminal Court of New Orleans in 1841.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Grand juries, Criminals, Judicial proceedings, Prisons, Prison reform, Prison laborers, Prisoners, Taxes, Tax payers
Date Issued
1841-01-31
Abstract
Text, January 31, 1841. The Grand Jury. Published in the Daily Picayune. Decisions of the Grand Jury presented to the Criminal Court of New Orleans, Louisiana concerning prison conditions, a workhouse system, lottery tickets, annual transient visitors who do not pay taxes and the establishment of an inferior court for minor offenses.
More arrests and questionings made in the Barabet Murder Case
title
More arrests and questionings made in the Barabet Murder Case
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, African Americans, Homicides, Serial murderers, Judicial proceedings
Date Issued
1912-04-07
Abstract
Text. More arrests and questionings made in the Barabet Murder Case. Daily Picayune, April 7, 1912.
Gaines estate receives check from New Orleans in 1893.
title
Gaines estate receives check from New Orleans in 1893.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Lawyers, Actions & defenses, Law & legal affairs, Judicial proceedings
Date Issued
1893-07-27
Abstract
Text, July 27, 1893. The Gaines Case. The city turns over a check for nearly a million dollars. Which closed the famous litigation as far as New Orleans is concerned. Yesterday administrator W.W. Whitney filed his account in court. Showing how the money will be distributed, the law and the lawyers getting the largest share. Published in the Daily Picayune. Gaines estate receives check from New Orleans for $923,788. The settlement's monetary account is included.
Reports on Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the Eastern District at New Olreans, 1845
title
Reports on Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the Eastern District at New Olreans, 1845
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Judicial proceedings, Law & legal affairs, Petitions
Date Issued
1845
Abstract
Text. Reports on Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the Eastern District at New Olreans, 1845.
African-American woman indicted for multiple homocides
title
African-American woman indicted for multiple homocides
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, African Americans, Homicides, Serial murderers, Judicial proceedings
Date Issued
1912-04-05
Abstract
Text; Daily Picayune, April 5, 1912. Article discussing the arrest and trial of Clementine Bernarbet, who was accused of murdering a family of six.
Criminal Court Building in New Orleans Louisiana in the 1930s
title
Criminal Court Building in New Orleans Louisiana in the 1930s
Subject
Courthouses, Judicial proceedings, Law & legal affairs
Date created ms
1930, 1939
Abstract
B&W photo, 1930s. Criminal Court Building in New Orleans, Louisiana. Written on photo, "The architectural design contrasts a beautiful colonnade, suggestive of the Roman forum, the place of the origin of Roman law, with the massive pylons of orderly government to enfore law."
Legal trial of Myra Clark Gaines in New York City, as reported in a New Orleans newspaper from 1891.
title
Legal trial of Myra Clark Gaines in New York City, as reported in a New Orleans newspaper from 1891.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Gaines, Myra Clark, 1805-1885, Marriage, Law & legal affairs, Bigamy, Courtship, Marriage proposals, Judicial proceedings, Divorce, Widows, Clark, Daniel, 1766-1813, Forgeries, Wills
Date Issued
1891-03-28
Abstract
Text, March 28, 1891. Mrs. Gaines Will. The Interesting Testimony in the Brooklyn Trial. Some Very Remarkable Personages Give Their Testimony. A Witness Who Has Served a Term in Prison. Another Who Has Been in Communication with Mrs. Gaines Since Her Decease. Published in the Daily Picayune. The legal trial and its scandals concerning Myra Clark Gaines in New York City, as reported in a New Orleans newspaper.
Madame Zulime Gardette (Mother of Myra Clark Gaines)
title
Madame Zulime Gardette (Mother of Myra Clark Gaines)
Subject
Marriage, Law & legal affairs, Bigamy, Courtship, Marriage proposals, Judicial proceedings, Divorce
Abstract
Text, date unknown. Description of the marital events surrounding Madame Zulime Gardette of New Orleans. Her first marriage took place shortly before 1802 to Jerome de Grange, a pretended count who was actually a poor French confectioner. Her second marriage took place in 1802 to Daniel Clark in Philadelphia. While Mrs. Gardette returned to New Orleans to end her first marriage, Mr. Clark married Miss Caton, the daughter of Chas. Carroll de Carrollton of Maryland. Mrs. Gardette then married Dr. Gardette and became the mother of Dr. Gardette and Madame Myra Clark-Gaines of New Orleans. Myra Clark-Gaines was the actual daughter of Mr. Clark and Zulime.
Jefferson Parish man charged with malpractice and assualt with intent to kill towards his wife in 1899.
Subject
Healing, Law & legal affairs, Law enforcement, Judicial proceedings, Actions & defenses, Voodooism, Quacks, United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana
Date Issued
1899-05-10
Abstract
Text, May 10, 1899. Devil in Her Throat. Diagnosis of a Fake Italian Doctor. Antonio DiCarlo Then Proceeded to Beat the Devil Out of his Victim, and as a Result the Young Italian Woman is in a Precarious Condition. Jefferson Parish man, "Doctor" Dicarlo, charged with malpractice and assault with intent to kill his "patient", the wife of Frank Nicoloce, in 1899. Dicarlo promised a "faith cure" by beating the woman to rid her of a "devil in her throat." Published in the Times-Democrat.
Myra Clark Gaines' obituary and history of her life and legal pursuits to prove her father was Daniel Clark
title
Myra Clark Gaines' obituary and history of her life and legal pursuits to prove her father was Daniel Clark
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Gaines, Myra Clark, 1805-1885, Death, Judicial proceedings, Families, Fathers & children, Supreme Court decisions, Clark, Daniel, 1766-1813, Wills
Date Issued
1855[sic]-01-10
Abstract
Myra Clark Gaines' obituary and history of her life and legal pursuits to prove her father was Daniel Clark. Includes the story of how her parents met and the subsequent events that led to the trials that lasted throughout her life.
Elia Theabeau arrested in the Barabet Murder Case that murdered Twenty-Six Negroes as Trial continues
title
Elia Theabeau arrested in the Barabet Murder Case that murdered Twenty-Six Negroes as Trial continues
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, African Americans, Homicides, Serial murderers, Judicial proceedings, Law enforcement
Date Issued
1912-04-06
Abstract
Text. Elia Theabeau arrested in the Barabet Murder Case that murdered Twenty-Six Negroes as trial continues.
Letter to the editors of the New Orleans Daily Picayune concerning Plaquemines Parish and a murder trail held there, from 1850.
title
Letter to the editors of the New Orleans Daily Picayune concerning Plaquemines Parish and a murder trail held there, from 1850.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Homicides, Education, Judicial proceedings
Date Issued
1850-07-03
Abstract
Text, July 3, 1850. Letter from the Empire Parish. Published in the Daily Picayune. Letter to the editors of the New Orleans Daily Picayune concerning Plaquemines Parish and a murder trial held there.
Citizen's letter to the Louisiana Courier concerning the Legislature and the abuses of the Louisiana Supreme Court
title
Citizen's letter to the Louisiana Courier concerning the Legislature and the abuses of the Louisiana Supreme Court
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Legislators, Legislative bodies, Judges, Judicial proceedings
Date Issued
1832-01-24
Abstract
Text. Citizen's letter to the Louisiana Courier concerning the Legislature and the abuses of the Louisiana Supreme Court. The Courier; January 24, 1832; p. 3, c. 1.
Harry and Don Louis, slaves belonging to Augustin Guedry of Lafayette Parish, are tried and executed in 1840.
title
Harry and Don Louis, slaves belonging to Augustin Guedry of Lafayette Parish, are tried and executed in 1840.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Slaves, Slavery, Slave rebellions, Executions, Judicial proceedings
Date Issued
1840-09-30
Abstract
Text, September 30, 1840. Negroes Executed. Published in the Daily Picayune. Harry and Don Louis, slaves belonging to Augustin Guedry of Lafayette Parish, and connected in an attempt at insurrection, have been apprehended, tried, found guilty and executed.
Marriage recognized as false by tribunal court in 1852.
title
Marriage recognized as false by tribunal court in 1852.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Marriage, Law & legal affairs, Judicial proceedings
Date Issued
1852-03-11
Abstract
Text, March 11, 1852. Description of court case involving a marriage recognized as false by tribunal court. The United States Supreme Court rendered the decision against Mrs. Gaines,[mother of Myra Clark Gaines] which excluded her from the succession of Mr. Clark. Another marriage with Mr. De Grange is recognized.

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