Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Priest Is Stabbed by Robbers. [ARTICLE]

Priest Is Stabbed by Robbers.

Rev. Father J. Lennert of Chicago was waylaid by footpads at New Orleans and dangerously stabbed in the back. He is here for his health and ia living near the United States barracks in the lower part of the city. He encountered the footpads in a dark place. They were three in number and all negroes. He fought them off, but one of them plunged his knife in the priest's back. He is thought to be bedly wounded.