The Murderous Canton Brothers of New Orleans

Bloody Angola Podcast by Woody Overton & Jim Chapman

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Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.9 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, The gripping tale of the Canton brothers is told, whose fateful robbery on Halloween 1911 led to the tragic murder of attorney Edgar Farrar Jr. and their subsequent arrest, sensational trial and the aftermath spent behind the wire, inside of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.Timestamps01:30 The Canton Brothers' Crime09:23 The Murder of Edgar Farrar Jr.12:48 The Trial Begins14:02 A Mistrial and New Trial17:13 Verdicts Rendered21:51 A Letter of Clemency29:29 Changes in the Prison SystemGo to HelloFresh.com/BloodyAngolaapps for FREE APPETIZERS for life for Bloody Angola Listeners! Join us on Patron for commercial free, early releases and much more HERE:

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0:00.0	I walk a straight line, shackled chain, oh, glues and gertie
0:24.4	is calling my name
0:27.5	there is no mercy
0:30.9	and it's been a tentury
0:33.9	just as the hill string guy
0:38.2	Rangle of three
0:40.7	I'm here for life
0:44.7	I'm here to die
0:47.8	Inside these walls
0:52.1	Inside the wild
0:54.7	And when the wolf cries
0:58.4	I know it's over
1:01.6	Oh, bloody Angola
1:08.1	Oh, oh, bloody Angola. Oh,
1:11.6	Bloody Angola.
1:14.6	Oh, Hey, everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast, 142 years in the making, the complete story of America's bloodiest present.
1:41.4	I'm Jim Chapman.
1:43.2	Woody is not going to be with us today. He is prison. I'm Jim Chapman. Woody is not going to be with us.
1:45.3	Today, he is somewhere that I'm not really sure if I can say or not, but I can tell you
1:53.5	he is working on a major case for real life, real crime coming, I think in the next couple of months.
2:02.3	But I have a great story to tell you, and we're going to take you back.
2:07.3	I'm going to take you back a little bit to 1911, as a matter of fact, and we're going to go back
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