Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1908 — Negro's House Is Stormed. [ARTICLE]

Negro's House Is Stormed.

New Iberia, La.. Oct. 13. —Fully 2,000 men and boys stormed a house in which Nicholas Hector, a negro desperdo, was resisting arrest. Hector was killed by one of several hundred bullets which riddled the house, and wgs dead when the door was opened. His arrest had been ordered for assault upon a peddler. He barricaded himself and made.an effective show of resistance for perhaps an hour, with one revolver and two boxes of cartridges as his ouly weapons.