South Louisiana was not left out when the U.S. entry into World War I caused everyone and his brother to become wary of strangers, and sometimes neighbors, suspected of being German spies.
Folks in Eunice thought they’d found one when a drifter passed through just about Christmas time in 1917. A newspaper report identified him as “John de Armand, alias Frederick Hebert.” The new...
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