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al trial ended in mistrial as one lone juror held out for acquittal the second trial ended in his conviction and this time judge blackman sentenced him to hang he pointed out that if thomas had hanged for a previous sexual assault that he had committed in indiana then laura belle would not have suffered thomas brady was hanged on december 7 1906 in alexandria louisiana his was only the fifth legal execution which had occurred in the parish since the end of the civil war he issued quite a lengthy statement about his past and what led him into his life of crime from the times democrat december 8 1906 new orleans louisiana the floor dropped at exactly 12 pm december 7 it was a perfectly executed hanging as he dropped precisely 6 feet and his neck broke he was cut down at approximately 12 45 pm and his body hurriedly prepared to be shipped to his family in indiana now i have some speculation about thomas he was known to do a lot of traveling by railroad he worked railroad jobs all over the country it is likely that there were many more victims the mugshots of thomas brady braden laura belle warren eventually married she did not ever have any children she is buried with her husband in the cryer cemetery in oakdale louisiana having lived to be 88 years old i hope her later years were happier ones this entry was posted in uncategorized on october 31 2025 by erinantley night 30 the banister family 1 reply sometimes when i come across a story it doesn t seem like anything more than a sad death but some families seem to carry a burden far worse than most for some families in the world untimely and bizarre deaths seem to hound them throughout generations such it would seem with the banister family of monroe louisiana on february 9 1925 12 year old troy banister and his friend george howell were out being boy scouts and walking around downtown monroe not far from their homes as they walked along the street troy was playfully smacking the sides of things at the corner of layton and jackson street he slapped a chain which was hanging on the telephone pole there he probably never knew what hit him the chain had been thrown across an electric cable and was electrified troy was electrocuted several grown men that witnessed the incident picked up troy and carried him down the street to the st francis sanitarium but he had died within minutes there was no saving him his father was a police officer william henry banister the family lived near where the incident had occurred a few days later the funeral was held at their home where troy was laid out in his boy scout uniform the news reports of the day state clearly that the child was buried in columbia where the family was originally from i don t know if that is mistaken or if he was later moved because his current stone is at riverview cemetery in monroe but that is just the beginning of the misery for the banister family troy s marker in the family plot at riverside cemetery monroe louisiana it is inferred in some articles that troy s father may have started to drink heavily after the death of the boy he did had a fair number of automobile accidents in 1939 he was hurt nearly fatally in a wreck and spent several months recovering only to crash his car again on halloween night 1940 and even though it looks like he could have easily gotten out of the car he drowned he drove off the road into a barrow pit next to what is now old sterlington road the driver s side door was open and the front of the car was submerged but the lights were still on which alerted passing vehicles to the car william banister was buried at riverside perhaps this was when the body of troy was moved the car that william banister was driving is seen in the background as the recovery man is wading out to hook a chain to it october 31 1940 the grave of william henry banister riverside cemetery monroe louisiana the next to die would be troy s older brother dr ray gregory banister in 1946 or rather he disappeared but was certainly deceased dr ray was an adventurous sort of fellow he had attended medical school and made his home in seward alaska he held a private pilot s license and used his plane to make visits to patients in rural areas where they would otherwise be inaccessible it was during one of these visits that dr ray encountered a raging winter storm and the plane vanished dr ray and his passenger were presumed dead his wife refused to give up hope that he was alive in 1947 a piece of the landing gear washed ashore from a lake near cain s head and it as then that his widow accepted that he was gone she eventually settled in montana but made drives to and from monroe to bring their four children to visit with their grandmother dr ray has a marker in the family plot as well the empty grave of dr ray banister next to go was banister brother roy who dropped dead of a massive heart attack in 1950 at the age of 42 he joined the rest of the family in the plot in 1952 the only banister daughter died in memphis tennessee of renal failure at the age of 47 she was ellie may banister jordan she was buried in riverview next to her siblings the next decade would pass without a death of a sibling but the next to go was a fellow surrounded in controversy that would be williams guy banister and if you know a good bit about the events of the 1960 s then the name might ring a bell banister has been referenced in several movies regarding the assassination of john f kennedy so let s start with the known facts william guy banister was an fbi agent and a private investigator in new orleans his private detective agency guy banister associates was in the balter building around the corner but in the same building was the address 544 camp street which is the address that was on the fair play for cuba flyers handed out by lee harvey oswald so oswald was known to banister now banister was alleged to have been involved in some very shady things among them a raid on a munitions depot in houma louisiana which in turn he was alleged to have used to help supply ammo and guns to the bay of pigs invasion in 1961 he was heavily involved in extreme anti communism was he keeping an eye on oswald or was there deeper involvement there is much speculation on the afternoon of november 22 1963 guy banister and jack martin an investigator employed by banister were seen together drinking heavily at a local bar once they returned to the office the two of them got into a physical fight banister pulled a 357 and martin asked him what are you going to do kill me like you did kennedy banister beat martin with the pistol so severely that martin had to be treated at the charity hospital in new orleans martin would testify to authorities over the next few days that a man named david ferrie had been involved in the assassination that ferrie s whereabouts could not be accounted for and that he martin knew that ferrie had driven to texas early on the morning of november 22 1963 the new orleans district attorney jim garrison became increasingly convinced that banister ferrie and a man named clay shaw were involved and had set oswald up as a patsy you may recall that shaw was the only person ever brought to trial for involvement in the jfk assassination shaw was tried and acquitted in 1969 he was dead by 1974 if you want to go down that rabbit hole be prepared to learn some things that you did not know about the jfk assassination banister himself did not even live a year after the kennedy assassination his official cause of death was a massive heart attack on june 6 1964 the have been rumors that he was taken out by a hit man but he did drink a lot and he smoked a lot and he obviously had a family tree that was given to early death banister was a relatively old man compared to his family members at the age of 63 when he died and his secrets went to the riverside cemetery in monroe with him undated photo of guy banister guy banister s grave david ferrie died in 1968 of an aneurysm he was under investigation at the time in his apartment there was found two typed unsigned suicide notes jim garrison maintained that ferrie s death was a suicide the banister s mother aline would only outlive one of her children state representative donald ross banister who was born two years after his brother troy had died he lived until 1996 he spent most of his career as the legal advisor for the louisiana state highway department he is the only one not buried with the family in monroe with the exception of a stillborn baby which was the second born child there s so much speculation and rumors that remain to this day regarding this connection to the jfk assassination what is known is that banister did know lee harvey oswald was the connection purely coincidental or was there more to the story to say i was unprepared to learn what i did was an understatement this entry was posted in uncategorized on october 31 2025 by erinantley night 29 the story of charles dewing leave a reply i ve touched on this story a couple year ago and promised to come back to it sooner but i haven t had a good chance to do it until now charles dewing could be a character right out of any respectable old western novel but the fact that so few people ever heard of him kind of astonishes me the fact that i had not heard of him until a couple years ago surprises me he was one of the toughest most dangerous blood thirsty men to ever live in louisiana the amount of people he killed both legally and illegally is insane the killers you ve heard legends about in the old west they ve got nothing on this dude dewing s actual date of birth is not known possibly documented as 1841 also as 1845 he was rumored to have been born on bloody monday in louisville kentucky august 6 1855 but it is more likely that he participated in the riots on bloody monday dewing claimed to have served with morgan s raiders during the civil war morgan did have quite a few bands which were bloody groups indeed guerrilla warfare being their specialty dewing and three other guerrillas were captured in louisville and held in jail for several days they were told they would be hanged when the day of the hanging was to occur the other three men were led out and dewing was spared he was held for a few more months and miraculously was freed he only stuck around louisville for a couple years and then he headed south where he landed in shreveport around 1870 and became a lawman around 1874 he was made the chief of police of shreveport and he could be a brutal one but he always had the backs of his deputies in one instance dewing came under fire due to the killing of a man named edward pagan pagan was a well known member of the community pagan and a deputy named boles had gotten into a fight and pagan beat boles mercilessly with a club dewing asked the doctor if boles would live and the doctor said he did not think so dewing went down to the jail and opened the door for edward pagan and told him to run pagan did and dewing shot him down as he was running away dewing was arrested and charged with murder thrown into his own jail he argued with the judge constantly about getting a bond set which the judge refused so dewing hatched a plan to escape he was able to his brother and sister in law to sneak him in a gun and some bullets dewing then sent word to the judge that he would kill the jailer when the jailer brought him a meal if he did not get bond amazingly the judge set his bond and he was released when the hearing was conducted he was cleared of any wrong doing dewing bragged about this entire situation another adventure was when three men from texas were captured near shreveport for a murder that occurred near grosbeck texas the sheriff of that community wanted to transport the men back as soon as possible dewing agreed to go with them just as they were entering waskom texas one of the prisoners went for the sheriff s gun and shot the texan through the heart killing him instantly dewing was shot through the leg but in the scuffle he forced the horses to run with the wagon this left dewing afoot but prevented the prisoners from taking the wagon they were later hunted down and killed and were said to have been buried near the site of their execution along the old texas trail another time dewing was involved in the investigation of a couple of evil men who ran a saloon on the old texas road their names are recorded as oliver hill and doc jones oliver had been traveling with the circus when it arrived during the yellow fever epidemic of 1873 when most of the circus folks died he needed to find another method of income that s when he became the accomplice of doc jones who had a habit of murdering patrons of his saloon robbing their bodies and throwing the dead men into a well behind the saloon eventually the two were arrested for the murders and locked up in shreveport they were removed from the jail and hanged on the courthouse lawn in a couple of chinaberry trees dewing was involved in this lynching and probably planned it dewing was involved in the lynching and burning of a rapist near doyline a person at the scene took a photograph which thankfully is no longer in existence in which it was described that dewing was smiling as he watched the body burn this rapist was said to have been chained to a tree and set on fire while he was alive charles dewing had seizures probably brought on by a number of head injuries that had occurred to him in his past he was unafraid of a fight once he had a seizure and fell off of a train while he and other officers were transporting prisoners they later found him bloody and bruised but walking down the track having survived the incident he eventually became the official executioner of caddo parish he had no remorse about his job and said it was a pleasure to hang a man that he knew was guilty at the same time charles dewing was known for his kindness to the prisoners who were in his care he often told the condemned that he would be with them until the end and he was true to his word he kept them company and read to them making sure they had some comforts in their final days over the years dewing collected quite an assortment of macabre souvenirs of his days in law enforcement and especially from the days as a hangman portions of rope and the masks that shut out the last light of doomed men some of these items he had sewed into a coat that he wore it was said that he would sit around touching these items and smiling as if he were remembering a fond memory he treated his ropes and hoods with the gentlest of care as they were prized possessions most interestingly in his elderly years after his retirement he spent a great deal of time on his porch he visited and reminisced with anybody would wanted to listen but he was terrifying to many people in the community he could not hire a driver for any amount of money as nobody was brave enough to be around him for long except for one person alice clark a black house keeper who was hi...