New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-03
City Intelligence.

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City Intelligence.
SENT UP-John Casey was sent for trial yes
teray before the First District Court for combng the
head of Sarah Reid with a three-legged stool!
Shoot HIM.-Richard Barrett for drawing
pistol and threatening to shoot James Kennedy is to be
examined in the First District Police Office the It'll inst
STEAL.---William johnson was arrested yes
terday in the act of running off from the of Beer
Co.. Charities street, with piece of cloth worth fifty
dollars. demanded.
BILL ENNIs.-This eccentric chap has been
pitching into Mahala Backso charges the fair Black
with the view and intent she alleges in her complaint
to cut her with knife For this Bill is to confront Ma
haa before the First District Court BY order of Recorder
Winter, given yesterday.
SALTY.-Jim Mclaughlin disturbed the quiet
of that haunt of the vesa Grod street by battering
Ellen Tuorny on the 9th u then and there against the
peace of the State And delectabe piece of the State
is that Girod street. against which Ellen was battered
First District Court for assault, as ordered above
lNoUEsT.-An inquest was held yesterday, at
the foot of Jefferson street. the body of negro man.
name unknown aged about forty years. found in the
river opposite Customhouse street. between the steam
boats. The body appeared to have been in the water
about eight ten hours Had on blue cotonade panta-
looms hickory shirt two brass rings the small finger
the right hand The tip Of the right ear had been cut
off. Verdict" Died by drowning''
MYSTERIOUS MURDER. - A most atrocious
crime involving the death of boy nine years old named
Theodore George Wolhey, committed on Tuesday
evening last at the store No Front Levee between Hos
pital and Ursuline streets kept by Ambrose
Dartigue The following affidavit led to the arrest of the
suspected parties
August Grabig made oath before Recorder Genos that
on yesterday morning at about O'clock deponent was
watching fire wood deposited on the bank of the
river between Ursulne and Hospital streets when he OBJ
served negro man, who carrying -four barrel on
his shoulder advancing towards the wharf distant from
where deponent sto ID about fifteen PAGES threw into
the river the aforesaid barrel About hour afterwards
deponen having brought the barrel the shore dis
covered that it contained dead body wherefore left
the same and Immediately went in quest of the Coroner
informed the police, etc.
Captain McGovern the Second District police on be-
ing informed of the fact proceeded to an investigation
the circumstances 1t appeared opening the barrel
that it contained human body which had been packed
in with quantity of hay and other trash taken from
the floor Of stable The Coroner held inquest on the
body but decomposition had taken place to such an ex
tent that the immediate of the death could not
| ascertained. There two bruises on one of thu
thighs the neck was Timber and appeared to have beer
broken and the sutures of the Uranium separated
The attending physician of opinion that the opening
the utures had been by the heat in the
or by the generation Of gases in the damp hay 1t wa
clear from Appearances that the death had been
Eby violence.
The mother and two brothers the deceasedthe lat
ter everay twelve and fourteen years ageere pres
ent, and identified the body The Coroners verdict wa
that the deceased died by violence by the hands of
| person persons unknown. +.
Capt McGovern having proceeded to the scene of tn
| murder, ascertaned the following facts He was in
formed that the boy had resided with his mother and tw
brothers. Moreau street. and that the three boys ha,
been in the habit of playnga bout the Tow boat Office an
hay and feed store Ursune street kept by Ambros
Dartgue On Tuesday last the 3lst t the boy had bee
seen by his brother, about o'clock p NJ playing abou
the feed store The three brothers had been playing til
game of hide and go seek in and around the store an
in and among the bales of hay where the deceased ha
disappeared and could not be found From the evenin
of his disappearance up to yesterday morning the opno
became prevalent that the boy in venturng too til
river had been drowned The about the store to
questions concerning the boy he was drowned
Further search about the store had been given up.
Captain McGovern, in examining the barrel, selecte
from 1t somesprigs of hay and grass, which comparso
were found exactly to compare with the hay and grass
the store He found too that the hay had been trampe
upon by horse and examination found stable in
rear of the premises with horse in it, when exactly
kind of hay with that the barrel was found in
stall under the horse.
number of barrels, with round hoops, that had 70
merly contained flour, and corresponding exactly wit
that in which the body concealed were found abo,
the store Searching further he ascertained that vii
dow in the stable had been lately broken and tit son
of the glass lying about the floor This glass cor
pared exactly with pieces found in the barrel wit
the body.
From suspicion created by these facts the persons col
nected with the store four in number were arrested
yesterday. Their names Ambrose Dartigue, Jes
Tapie Jean Despard and Francois Cazento
They taken before Recorder Genos and after LA
ing been warned that they not bound to ans r
questions tending to criminate themselves andt lay
been also instructed by counsel to the same effect
three first made voluntary statements Nothing was elic
ed to criminate either Of them but of themTape
after the examination was closed made voluntary stat
ment, under OATH to the following effect H.
He said: That on Tuesday evening last between fo
and five O'Clock, the three boys playing around
store the two elder being out of sight at the tin
when Dartgue the of the store becoming enrag
at the youngest one struck him the side of the
with an iron instrument used by flour inspectors for be
1t ing into flour barrels. The boy fell alongside of hi
pile of sacks of BRAN where he lay moonless and apr
is rently dead. Without examining him to see whether
v was really dead, Dartigue Immediately pulled down
huDer OF une Dran SACKS anu pleu theni oH e pouy
to entirely conceal it. The body lay in this situati
the following two nights and day On yesterday MOI
ing about four O'clock Dartigue arose from his bed,
: getting barrel-the exhibited at the Recorde
ofce-and having lifted the sacks from OIL the body p
ceeed to put in the BARREL with quantity of hay
trash Tapie the legs of the body sticking out of
BARREL and recognized the body by its clothing Darg
then headed up the barrel and exhorting deponent
the other in the house to say nothing about it,
the barrel the river bank and into the water viii
last act he by the who made the affidavit
l. The accused were all committed to prison to avn
b | further examination
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r To PERSONS RUPTuRED The many perm
nent and eectual cures made Dr. Sherman ese
70 ing of than passing notice For particulars