Volsin Julian
Volsin Julian was one of three Black brothers held in a small jail on Judge Estopinal's property above Southport in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. According to a New Orleans dispatch printed in several newspapers, a mob came to the jail on the night of Saturday, September 16, 1893, and took him and his brother Bakal out. One account says about twenty-five men came at about 11 o'clock and hanged them in a pasture, while another says a grove near the jail, and a later report says one of the men was taken to Camp Parapet.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. According to New Orleans dispatches printed in several newspapers, an armed mob took Volsin Julian and his brothers from the Jefferson Parish jail on the night of September 16, 1893, and hanged them.
Reported by: The Herald (New Orleans dispatch) (reporters); The Morning Call (New Orleans dispatch) (reporters); The Record-Union (New Orleans dispatch, Sept. 17, 1893) (reporters).