The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

A YANKEE COURT OF JUSTICE.

Yesterday the room of the Third District Court
was the scene of a very bloody affray between three
of our citizens. Dr. Dupes and Mr. D. Veau have
been partners in a saw mill in the third municipality,
and having lately dissolved partnership, some legal
proceedings have taken place between them. Dr.
Dupes, in settling the accounts of the partnership,
was assisted by Mr. Severe Wiltz, alderman of the
third municipality. Yesterday the parties met in
the 'Third District Court, to try a rule arising
from these legal disputes. The rule had been
tried, and Judge Strawbridge had left his seat
and the room, when an altercation arose be-
ta-een Dr. Dupes and Mr. Veau, the former charg-
ing the latter with net accounting for money he had
collected, and the latter pronouncing it a falsehood
and a calumny. Mr. IViltz, seeing the dispute was
approaching a serious issue, interfered, and stood be-
tween the parties, when Veau addressed to him some
very abusive language, calling him a liar and a ca•
lumniator, with reference to Mr. 'MHz's endorsement
of Dr. Dupas's charges. Thereupon Mr. Wiltz, who
is a gentleman of powerful frame, struck Veau, knock-
ing him down on his knees. Before he rose, Mr.
Veau drew a dirk and stabbed Wiltz in the breast.
Wiltz turned to leap over the railing separating the
clerk's stand from the portion of the court-room
allotted to the bar, and as he did so, Veau gave
him another severe cut in the thigh, but at the satne
time fell himself suddenly on the floor, as if he were
dead. It appeared, afterwards, that he had been
stabbed in the back by Dr. Dupes, who avowed the
act as one done in defence of his friend. The knife,
which was a very sharp one, struck the spinal column,
and immediately paralyzed his lower limbs. In the
meantime, Mr. Wiltz had leaped into the judge's
stand and drew a pistol, when he cried out, ' Gentle-
men, lam badly hurt," and fell in the stand. The
gentlemen were then taken up by their friends, and
physicians sent for. In a little while they ar-
rived and examined their wounds. Mr. Wiltz was
able, with the assistance of his friends, to go down
the steps, and was put into a cab and carried home.
His wounds are severe and painful, but not danger-
ous. Mr. Vertu was entirely prostrated by his in-
jury, and it is feared that it will prove mortal. The
gentlemen engaged in this unhappy affair are all
highly respectable Creoles, and men cf families.—
New Orleans Delta.

DEATH OF A FEMALE BY
TAKING SAVINE.

On Saturday an inquest was held by Mr. Baker, at
the Crown, Mary-street, Kingslind-road, upon the
body of a married woman, named Harret Cole, aged
34, who had been deserted by her husband, and bad
died from the effects of a medicine called savine,
which she had taken for the purpose of procuring
abortion. Mr. John Nicholls, surgeon, Queen's-road,
Dalston, stated that the deceased, during the last three
weeks, had daily called upon him with one of her
children who was unwell. Deceased herself made no
complaint. On 'Wednesday night last his attention was
called to her. He found her in bed at her lodgings. She
was suffering severely from internal pains. He heard
from of-male in the house that she was in the family way,
and that it was supposed she had taken a decoction of
savine to procure an abartior. She was fast sinking.
He gave her some medicine, and she rallied a little.
She died the following morning. He made a post
mortem examination of the body, and found the sto •
mach in a state of inflammation, which was suf-
ficient to cause death. The uterus contained a
foetus about three months old. The iaflainma-
don of the stomach might have been caused by
a decoction of savine. In rimy cases life has
been sacrificed by a person taking it to procure
aborilon. Mr. Finer, parish surgeon of Shore,
ditch, stated that a few weeks ago the deceased
called upon him to request that he would give her
something to destroy the child with which she was
pregnant. She offered him any money if he would,
but he refused. Eliza C'everly, a single young wo-
man, stated that on Tuesday last she accompanied
deceased to a herbalist's at the corner of William-
street, Shoreditch, where she bought twopennyworth
of savine. She boiled it in some water, and on Wed-
nesday afternoon she drank it. Soon after she was
taken very ill, when witness went for a doctor.
Verdict —" That the deceased died from an inflam-
mation of the lanwele, caused by taking a decoction of
savine, and the jury cannot separate without express-
ing a strong opinion that great blame is attached to
herbalists and others indiscriminately vending such
articles."