[archive] the Axeman of New Orleans literally wrote to the paper saying he'd spare houses playing jazz

Existing this so I stop having to re-find it. From the Times-Picayune reprints people have scanned + a true crime board's summary. New Orleans, roughly 1918-1919. Someone's going around at night breaking in — usually chiseling out a back-door panel — and attacking people in bed with an axe, often t……