The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-04-03
N EW ORLEAN MS:
THURSDAY MORNING.. APRIL ,. 1851.

MURDER IN HEvIA STREET, LAST NIGHr.-The lower
end oil Hevia street. the Second Municipality Work
ouse was thrown into state Of great excitement by one of
The most fatal and criminal has been our Int tn
notice for time. About dusk last night man named
Timothy Donovan went down house at the corner of Gil
Iond and Hevia Streets in with another man named
Gnfn, to widow woman who lived there of the name
Of Dolnar. After they had been the house short time
they heard noise in the yard the back of the house, and
poor Donovan went to what was the cause of it. He
nen discovered man named Clark falling with hir wife,
and Mrs. Donar then and nerfered CLARK appea TO
nave struck his wife, and then Donovan nteered and said
was not ia'r Tor man to strike woman and he tried to
part Ciak from his wife and peace. At that
men ne was stabbed by Clark with sharp instrument upon
the breast, and right the heart The wound a three
corneFed one and appears have been made by small
pognad or dirk knife. which entered between the ribs and
must nave punctured the heart for the only turned and
W e door OF the house, where he fell down and died
Immediately. Griffin his assistance. and he
STRUCK across the hand twice. in manner that disabled him
'of time On his going look his fiend he discovered
tnat ne was dead and lying his back in the He
unbutoned his breast and then found deep wound round
the region of the heart which the Of DEATH But
little blood from this wound and il only enough To
wet Just the inside shirt and besmear the breast of the poor
Immediately after the fatal Occurrences. police officer Smell
ser and entered the house. but finding that bs con
not arrest the parties concerned, he the Police Office
for assistance. On his return he found another office,
present. and they arrested Clark his wife, Griffin and Mr.,
Dona and conveyed them to the Work house, where they
were all confined to await investigation
CidTh' ID an Engllshman, and Donovan, who
Is young man about twenty of age came from Boston
Mass 10 New Orleans, in November last and has w, rked
as fireman on board Of steamboat ever since lie lived nj
WIS wary Hacketts. at the of Tchoupitoulas and
Streets and much respected in the spt re in which
ne moved. Donovan not use any weapon AZ his
kn'e was found shut in his pocket with two dollars and five
cents. wv ~ ~ ave
Inc Douy OF the deceased lay the place. where he
's 'e ut ten O'Clock last night and had paid any
MARKS OF attention to it. Many persons viewed it. and mncb
'hefe was excited by the occurrence. The weapon with
Wch the iata blow was struck has yet been found
although strict search has been made for it,
NEwoRLkANs AND JACKSON RA1LRoAp-A meetinp ot
The Joint COMMITTEES Of the Councils of NewOreans and
nyee was TO have been held the Council Chambe, Of the
f Municipality last evening" for the purpose of receiving
Tue report OF the Engineer of the New Orleans and
haway but there were only three members present der
man fancey, OF the Second Municipality Council and
'S nuodecke and Burke, of Lafayette and as they did
o constitute quorum, the meeting adjourned The En-
neer rs also present with Plans and vouminou report
"eh, ~ Inc committee, bat its members were too much
e"gaeed IN Municipal eectoneering matters to attend to the
'"po''aht business of the railway meeting |
iHk 'ARDANNr CREvAssE,-We learned yesterday that
~ ceVasse st increasing and extent and that any
aempt to stop the of the during the present
eh state OF the ver will be futile. The force and volume
OF wafer running through is immense and we were
informed that 1t is deepening well as becoming wider
Boy DRowEDT-A boy named John Muloy six yea,s of |
age whose parents said to reside "a Julia street was
drowned IN the Canal, the toll gate, last evening"
ABOUT haipast five O'Clock. The deceased fell out of ski
~ "hch he had been amusing himself with two BOYS of
hsariy his own door