New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-11
City Intelligence.

Leblanc, who owned and occupied house on the corner
of Claiborne and st. Phillip streets The body fonnd
early yesterday morning gashed and mutated in most
horrd manner.
The deceased unmarried lived alone and had kept
small grocery store at the place of his residence He
much beloved by circle of acquaintance
for his Quot and honest and correct department
By of industry and economy he had managed to
acquire competence lie had got reputation in the
neighborhood of possessing considerable sum of money
and had frequently been applied to to change bank bills
for which purpose be would resort to bag in which his
gold boarded This bag and it's contents attracted
the attention of visitors and the sequel will show did
fail to excite the cupidy Of who determined to
possess themselves of it. 1t caused the loss of the old
mans life.
Early yesterday morning baker who had been in the
habit of furnishing the deceased (LeBlanc) with bread
called on his usual Grand The old did respond
to the call whereupon the baker finding the street door
of the house aar IAN unusual circumstance) went in and
to his horror found the occupant stretched cot be-
hind the counter. covered with blood dead! Coroner
Wilkinson, being informed of the fact proceeded
hold inquest on the body, He discovered first
view and without removing tie clothing of deceased,
that nineteen wounds visible upon the body The
cot on which he lay swimming in blood and his gray
locks matted with it. He had been dead hours
On further examination the body appeared covered with
gashes and stabs from the head and face to tile hips In
the language of the Coroner it appeared literally hashed
up!' Forty-fve ineised wounds discovered forty
out of which would have singly proved mortal The cuts
stabs and gases appeared to have been made with three
different instruments-with threecornered sletto,
Bowie knife and Ratchet Hence the inference that he
had been assaed by three persons at the same time.
The most CHASTITY and important wounds were the d-
vision Of the windpipe each side above the
breast bone another Immediately below the angle the
left martqrV awbone, which divided branch of the
carotid artery There eight deep stabs the left
side of the chest cutting the second and third ribs and
penetrating to and piercing the lungs There two
other wounds which open and penetrated the upper
part of the breast bone The left aurcle of the heart
dsartculated at the end next the breast and the SUBJ
cavan vein opened Three other wounds in the anterior
part Of the left side of the chest penetrated that cavity
cut open the lungs and the right aurice of the heart
Another fatal wound inflicted the left side of the
abdomen inch below the careges of the ribs where
the ntestines protruded being pierced in several places
Altogether spectacle ghasty urpasses all powers of
description.
The verdict Of tho Coroner's jury that the de-
ceased murdered by person persons
known
Police officers were soon on the alert to ferret out the
perpetrators of this most foul and unnatural murder
negro boy named Antonio who had lived with the de
ceased being questioned by the Coroner evinced
siderable repdation which fact led to his
imprisonment of the suspected parties Suspicion
also fell upon two Spaniars who kept goats for milking
in clubhouse adjoining the tenement Of the murdered
man further discovered that the where the
deceased slept only to be entered by the
through this courthouse, and that the front which
had always been bolted inside and could only be opened
from within wide open the morning of the catas
tropbc Hence the inference that the murderers
through the courthouse. and unbotng the front door
from within escaped to the street From these facts the
Of the goats suspected Of being the murder
ers. Two of them, Francois Zamite and another have
been by officer Bouloussa the charge 1t is
singular fact that zanite who had been habituay
early the morning after the murder, wearing
heavy of whiskers caught hour after
without this hrsue appendage and clean shayen.
examining the house three cornered stiletto was
found upon the floor but without any boodstans upon
it 1t also discovered that all the trunks and draw
the house had been forced their ried
and scattered about the and about $500 supposed
TO have been in the old mans possession gone,
There were no marks of blood about the house, save
upon where the body lay; from which it is infer
red that the unfortunate must have been killed by
the blow and that being in the dark his ayers had
continued to hack and stab lin to make work OF it
We have thus attempted give a faint sketch of this
unprecedented butchery feeling assured that language
incompetent to portray in all its Accomplishments of
hendishness brutality and horror The accused parties
arc detained in close custody and the meanwhile the
police the look out for others whom suspicion
has fallen.
CHAPTER OF HoRRoRs-Railroud feel
Enthusiastically day usually quiet and of
incidents the seeker after news, brought with it
in which the horrible and real mixed with
the romantic us to put to the test and utterly conound
the confding credulity. murder that rivals in
trocty the verrest fables that sprung from the
lamentations Of the concOctors of horrors was enacted
midst apd under circumstances the revolving
in detail that stained the chronicles of crime But
of this, elsewhere.
Two other constructive attempts upon lives Of cti
which according to the circumstances that attended
evnced careessness and disregard of human life
such degree to crminality also to be
noticed the brief records Of the day But to the facts
Yesterday the arrival ofhe O'Clock train of from
1yphp tbn truin
ing man in attempting to jump from the before
the locomotive detached was knocked down and fell
under the train The car wheels ran over both his
crushing them completely. He taken up in state of
nsensbiy and conveyed to the Charity Hospital where
discovered that his arms much crushed
TO require amputation Immediately, The of the
unfortunate man is Thomas Whtby. He is English
man by birth and twenty one years of age.
About the same hour, named John Quinn, also a
native Of England and aged nineteen years
Nayddes street. by the locomotive of the NewOreans
and Carroton Railroad, and had his leg broken by the
wheels The conductors this road give their
count of the affair and lay the blame of the accident
the unfortunate sufferer.
Whether these socaled accidents were the results of
imprudence the part of the sufferers brought
about bv the careessness or msmanagement OF the en-
poyees the respective roads it not to determine
haps calculated to shake the confidence of the travelling
public in such conveyances, and may well create
pcion that things not conducted as they should be
FlREs.-Early on Saturday morning, fire
discovered in the Fourth District Live Oak street
between Second and Third streets 1t broke out in &
house owned by Mr. Young Of Bouligny and was occu
pea AT the time by Mr.. Charles, pilot board
steamboat Saxon. The house and furniture which
both covered by insurance destroyed Two houses
adjoining the occupied by Mr. keslee and the othe
of wood and one story in height The supposed
have been the work of inceudiary. Mrs Charles say
that she saw n man jump from the back window of he
residence few moments before the flames We're discovered
fire also broke out about 10 O'Clock on Saturday il
the Second District, the of Customhouse an
Roman streets Notwithstanding the active exertons
the remen who assembled in full force. four one-stor
frame dwellings and two kitchens DESTROYED One
the burned dwellings was owned and occupied by NJ,
Silva another by MIR. Sinclair, and third ,y Carl JIof
Most of the furniture in the houses saved The osse
chiefly covered by insurance.
OLD SHOOTING AFFAIR.-Francisco yassall
was, Saturday examined before Recorder Gepois O
the charge of being concerned in the shooting of Aur
Cutino in the Vegetable Market the 10Th June las
The has been heretofore published length Cup
is the man who arrested few days ago, the r,
corders office. and fonnd to be armed with loaded p
tolls and very savage looking stietto for which he
fined 500 Nicholas Marquezi who was arrested for ben
concerned with Nassale discharged and Nassalle
committed for trial before the First District Court.
FUGITIVE ARREsTED.--A man named N. L
WaGegh is reported to have left Mobile Friday las
with a large of money which he had collected
Montgomery, Alabama, for the firm Of b. & N. b. Nix
Go, The fact telegraphed here, and when Wadeig
arrived at the Lake end of the Portcharrain Railroad
he was waited on by Captain McGovern of the Secon
District Police, who politely escorted him to the Paris
Prison. where lodgings furnished him at the publ
charge oftorgery also preferred against IL
He is to be sent back to the Of his depredatons