New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-23
CITY Intelligence.

MlRuER OF RoNsoN Mrs. Duree, the W life Of
Charles Durce Saturday brought before Recorder
euHrncau examination the charge of having muir
derrd Ronson batter Of Exchange Alley who dap
prscd i'll August last and whose supposed remains wer"
recently found the Lake Shore n the Railroad Ter
minus .
Oscar Nicsecm who made the original affidavit in
the before Recorder Gcnos, sworn aud stated
that in September last be applied to Duree he husban
of the accuse for employment as an accountant III set
ting the accounts of the partnership brokc 10y the dis
appearance Of Ronsou In reply to his application Bu
said that the partnership had not been confirmed
either by notaral ct private agreement and as Ron
son had disappeared seven eight months before. with
all the funds belonging the there was no use
he trouble If settlement "t the books, witness
knew that Ronson had been in the city within the pre-
cclins fifteen ,ys, and that one part OF Dfees stite
IN, Mt WAS not trua.
Witness again met purec on the llth ut and drank
wit him in coffee house in Exchange Alley. bur"e
hrn tod him that Eonson was dealt aud would never
back but would moi state 10" he knew that he was
dead Witness Then suspected that R"son disappear
anco been cu-ed by Duree aud his suspicious were
confirmed by the subsequent discovery of the remains at
thu lake
On the crsscxnmnatiou the witness stated that Duree
had what he should do under the circumstances OF
Ronson, having disappeared and not being heard from
during period Of eight nine months? Witness nd
yisai him to wal. until there certainty Of bis having
entirely withdrawn absconded, before preceding to
set tie the accounts,
Witness could not swear positively the hat the hair
shown him by the Recorder the hat Of tie
kind as w,nn nv Ro,son and he believed it to his
witness himself had found tho hat and the hair the
Lake shore. the grave yard at Aliineblrg not far
from the Railroad Dcpaprobaby five HUNDRED PAGES
graveyard ot many when witness found the hair it
in The and while wet correspondent in color
with R0sona its present dry ana discolofed state he
could not identify it.
keeps boarding house there In AuEnSt last on sun
day about o,r o'clock III the afternoon site saw Mrs
Durce and called Mr.. Charles with another man,
whom she did not remember to have seen before He
wa dressed i'll black clothes and wore small white straw
hal similar to that exhibited in Court. This man with
Madame passed the door of witness along the
beach walking toward Bayou Cochon. Mr. Charles did
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house and went through the briars and bushes IN INC '
rcon Of the swamp Witness soon alter saw th, three
together ut the grave yard and in about ten minutes
after they she heard loud cry from that direction
1t was the cry that she heard and surprising
that an of violence had been committed she called
some ncighbos and watched with them until late hour
for the appearance of the two men that she might have
them arrested they he%eysr ala not APPEAR About
Durec and Mr. Charles walking i'll company toward the
place whence she had heard the cry Witness has never
the that dressed in black since the time
| she heard the cry.
uner SANITATION the witness stated that three
ar our fishermen who in her house at the time also
heard the cry and they believed with her that violence
had been committed the woman, hut they did not go
ascertain what was 'H ai % "nt s nth e y
uf crime the cry seemed to come from the swamp
| side of the graveyard.
in the month Of October, while walking with boy she
found the bones OF human bciug partly covered with
rutIcs at about tho spot from which the cry had pro-
cce,lrd beside the remains lay atchet and sword
cane Inc clothes black: she next day visited The
lCnau. anu notcetl inc INliIs
cErly she had noticed the color of the har of thu
mau that she had seen with Madame Dureo and Mr.
Charles. ..
in court as those found by her ut that time The former
is small atchet OF the Kind generally used i'll stores fol
opening boxes etc. the she conld not identity st
ostiyev rs that found by her had an ivory bone head
4lo thought however, il was tho same tie head having
been since taken oil,
through the right temple the hachc eSlctly fitting thu
cut LARGE fracture also appears on the back part of thu
iY1n al. .,y
charles Maugin swornWitncss is hnttcr and lives il
Orleans 81 rect fronting IRENE Market has been goot
: t,Tu,s win MIR and Madame Dulec, and their fmc
have visited other in the iater part OF August las
they visited his house and tod nm that Mr. Roson wa
where they had left him and expected that he would G.
across the Lake the next day for the benefit OF his health
they told witness that while At the Lake they had Wke
to Eyou Cuchou to aok at vessel that was ashore there
al Rosun to have gone with them to see the vesse
bud excused himself saying that lie was too tired to wal
"a far he promised howe,c to meet them al the Wash
ipctu, Hotel when they should return but lie lid nc
keep his appointment though thfy waited loS tno 10
him nj tr hotel they steamboat crossing the LAX
II while they were waiting ut The hotel and concluded Una
Ronson lad left the place in her this mad occurred the
said five or seven days before their visit TO MI Slaugiil
thew told witness that Mr. Ron5on was to have taken 70
cray his cxpenscs but they found that he had take
Il $500 instead OF that amount, =,
Madame De IN Roche swott,-W ituess anu seVe!'i o
n, ladies' including Madame Durce, went to the Lake u
gelhcr the 4ih OF November last when Madame pur'
e pointed out the spot .whcre she last saw MT konso
h Witness became acquainted with Madame Duree abo'
ten months ago had told Duroo That he had better e
NJ tho city, unless he could clear himself 81 Suspicion
jr having murdered Rpnson
~ Madame Farg- Ally sworl--Ii was by witncsss mra
~ that Charles Du'ee became partner with R's'n ~
two had always seemed to lie friendly terms. RtS
~ told witness that he expected to lr absent and asked
X to attend his store while liz should be gone She call
a. at thn store three four days elwai and while tie
the doctor who attended him and told him that
IL might go Ronson lett the san,eday he was going o,
IT, the Lake for the benefit Of his health Ronson had 81
h. or 5000 with him which witness he told with,
a, that ~ Dpges did not drive bis wife from the house