Seizing the dying man he laid him on the dissecting board and covered him over with a sheet.
He went to the writing desk and quickly scrawled the following note.
"DOCTORS: "I have stepped out for a short while.
Don't touch the nigger until I come.
"Zackland." He pinned this note on that portion of the sheet where it would attract attention at once if one should begin to uncover the corpse.
He did this to delay discovery and thus get a good start on those who might pursue him.
Having done this he crept cautiously out of the room, leapt the back fence and made his way to his boarding place.

He here changed his clothes and disappeared in the woods.

He made his way to Baton Rouge and sought a conference with the Governor.

The Governor ordered him under arrest and told him that the best and only thing he could do was to send him back to Cadeville under military escort to be tried for murder.
This was accordingly done.

The community was aroused over the death of Dr.Zackland at the hands of a negro.