The Axeman's Jazz (City Blues Quartet)

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Meanwhile, Catherine had sustained deep wounds so deep it was said that her head looked like it was about to fall off her shoulders. Sisters Pauline and Mary were staying at their uncle Joseph’s house on the eve of August 10, 1918, when they were awoken by the noise from a fight between the Axeman of New Orleans and their uncle. When I see fit, I shall come and claim other victims. I alone know whom they shall be. I shall leave no clue except my bloody axe, besmeared with blood and brains of he whom I have sent below to keep me company.

Or, maybe the Axeman was defending jazz's honor? In the summer of 1918, the Times-Picayune ran an editorial trashing jazz, saying it was not even music, just noise.Stuff You Missed In History Class did a two-part miniseries on the Axeman in which they toyed with the idea of his murderous acts having begun prior to 1918. [29] Unfortunately, Joseph Romano was a senior at the time and suffered severe head trauma that resulted in his death two days after the incident.

The letter printed in the book is a real letter received by the Picayune newspaper at the time. What do you think the intention of the real-life letter-writer was? Countless people faced questioning, and even some of the victims themselves were suspected of being the Axeman of New Orleans, as was the case with one man named Louis Besumer (who was separately suspected of being a German spy). a b c "Another Hatchet Mystery; Man and Wife Near Death". Times-Picayune. July 6, 1918 . Retrieved May 2, 2012. Newton, Michael (August 2004). The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes (Facts on File Crime Library). Facts on File. ISBN 0816049807.It wasn’t the axe murders that made the Axeman of New Orleans famous, but his seeming passion for Jazz music that led him to threaten the people of NOLA to play jazz in exchange for not targetting them.