The Axeman of New Orleans was a serial killer active in New Orleans, Louisiana ( and surrounding communities, including Gretna, Louisiana ), from May 1918 to October 1919.

Most notoriously, on March 13, 1919, a letter purporting to be from the Axeman was published in the newspapers saying that he would kill again at 15 minutes past midnight on the night of March 19, but would spare the occupants of any place where a jazz band was playing.

Not everyone was intimidated by the Axeman.

While radically different than the Axeman's usual modus operandi, if Joseph Momfre was indeed the Axeman, the Schiambras may well have been an early victim of the future serial killer.

* The Axeman of New Orleans was a serial killer in New Orleans circa 1918-1920

It is not clearly explained how they find themselves in the future other than some sort of time warp, either intentional or inadvertent, but he occupies himself in that era as a professor at the New Avalon Institute of Science on the world of New Avalon within the Federated Suns successor state and is also a Battlemech designer, having designed the Hatchetman and Axeman mechs according to the sourcebooks Battletech Technical Readout 3025 and Battletech Technical Readout 3050.

His other achievements in woodchopping include winning the Australian Axeman of the Year award nine times in a row ; winning every major woodchopping event in Australia and New Zealand ; becoming the first person in sporting history to have won 1000 championships ; and been the only axeman to have ever won six out of seven championships at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.

The city has 4 clubs in the Country Rugby League of NSW's Group 2 rugby league competition ; Coffs Harbour Comets, Sawtell Panthers, Woolgoolga Seahorses, and Orara Valley Axeman.

Some well armed citizens sent the newspaper invitations for the Axeman to visit their houses that night and see who got killed first.

One invitation promised to leave a window open for the Axeman, politely asking that he not damage the front door.

I am what you Orleanians and your foolish police call the Axeman.

Let them not try to discover what I am, for it were better that they were never born than to incur the wrath of the Axeman.

Two of the alleged " early " victims of the Axeman, an Italian couple named Schiambra, were shot by an intruder in their Lower Ninth Ward home in the early morning hours of May 16, 1912.

The 1945 book Gumbo Ya-Ya, A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales includes a chapter on the Axeman entitled " Axeman's Jazz ", which helped spark renewed interest in the murders.

Writer Julie Smith used a fictionalized version of the Axeman events in her 1991 novel The Axeman's Jazz.

The Axeman killings are also referred to in the short story " Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz " by Poppy Z. Brite, published in 1997.

In Chuck Palahniuk's 2005 novel Haunted, the Axeman is mentioned in Sister Vigilante's short story.

The 2007 song " Deathjazz " by Las Vegas progressive rock band One Ton Project parallels the story of the Axeman.

The only remaining original members of The Rock crew are Rog, Tracey Donaldson and Paul Martin aka The Axeman.

The Axeman is the longest-serving member of The Rock, having been with it soon since early 1992, hosting his show " The Axe Attack " every Sunday night.

* David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to U. S. President Barack Obama, is sometimes referred to as The Axeman in the media

At the 1988 national championship tournament the Bobcats defeated the Western Mustangs in the semi-final thanks to 21 points and seven rebounds from Partick Jebbison, before beating the Acadia Axeman 81-68 in the gold medal game on March 20, 1988.

PCs also have classes, like Wavemaster ( ex: Mistral or Elk ) or Heavy Axeman ( ex: Subaru ) for example, that correspond with the character in the anime series.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.

What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.

He was caught in a machine.

Here he was, suddenly caught up in the delirium of a war, in the spite and calumny of Whigs and Tories.

yet was never caught up in it -- never a slave to its academic dialectics.

It was falling over her head when a branch of a bush caught it and it fell in front of her on the rock.

She was closing and within one more bound would have been able to reach the rear end of the bay, but -- and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were holding breath for all they were worth -- she never quite caught up that last bound.

He hurried across to the courthouse and caught the sheriff just as he was leaving.

She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.

He was caught driving the day after the sentence was pronounced and given a warning.

His statistical record that year, when Texas won only one game and lost nine, was far from impressive: he carried the ball three times for a net gain of 10 yards, punted once for 39 yards and caught one pass for 13 yards.

Her veil was caught to a crown, and she carried gardenias and stephanotis.

Her veil was caught to a pearl headdress, and she carried stephanotis and orchids.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

It was so cold and so wretched that a sort of desperate gaiety infected all of them, like people stormbound or shipwrecked or caught in some other freak of circumstance so that time stood still and minor anxieties fell away and the only important thing was to cling together and survive.

She felt mindless, walking, and almost easy until the church spire told her she was near the cemetery, and she caught herself wondering what she would say to Doaty.

He had loved and lost Vivian Wayne to somebody else, had watched her marry the somebody else, and had caught a bear of a cold by kissing the bride good-by forever, which was really piling it on.