DORSELIES FRUGE BROUGHT TO JAIL

Crowley Signal October 10, 1903

Doreselies Fruge, the young man who stabbed and fatally wounded Arthur Roy at a dance near Eunice last Saturday night, was arrested Tuesday night between 9 and 10 oclock at the home of one of his neighbors by Jailer A.V. Johnson and brought down to the parish jail, where he was incarcerated with a charge of murder preferred against him.

The prisoner is scarcely more than a boy and though he seemed a little frightened, he spoke readily enough to one of the Signals reporters who interviewed him at the jail. He does not speak a word of English, and seemed immensely relieved when the newspaper man addressed him in the dialect spoken by the country people of Louisiana.

Fruge said in substance: Last Saturday night I had gone to a ball at the Charlots, or Fontenots they call themselves by either name and after having danced awhile had grown warm and gone out in the road to rest. I was just about to go home and was leaning against the fence. Some of the men there, about twenty of them and all unknown to me, began to sing songs. The masters of the house declared that if the men wanted to sing they should do so outside. This brought on a racket and the others were pushed outside of the house. The racket was continued in the road and some others began to throw sticks into the house. The Charlots returned in kind and bottles were also thrown. After a while the old man, the fellow I stuck, came running out, saying he had been struck by one of the sticks. The crowd backed up to me, accusing me of having struck him. I denied this as he insisted and I did not wish to get into trouble, I turned and began to run away from him. He ran after me and struck me in the back so hard that I was unable to run any more and had to turn. Facing him I began backing away, and soon fell into a deep ditch, when he jumped on me and sitting on my chest began beating me about the head; see where he struck me and his left temple. He was a big man, much stronger than I, and I was helpless under him. I called two or three times for someone to separate us, but nobody came to help me, so I stuck him once, and he continued, I had to defend myself. After he was stuck he got up from me crying jsuis pique, and ran into the house. I rose to my feet and staggered home, weak from the beating he had given me about the head. Last night they came and got me and put me in jail.

The weapon with which the killing was done is a small, common pocket knife, and not a large one, which was found about his person when he was arrested. Roy or Richard, died Monday afternoon from the effects of his wound, a stab in the abdomen, and the remains were interred Tuesday afternoon.