New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-04
LEGAL Intelligence.

| ' llIAINous. -About o o'clock last night SOM
unptnelpied wretch entered the Place dArmes aud Gu
large hole in the largest Of Mr. Petns balloons cauin
aeIpetrator Of this deed succeeded making his
We are gratifed to learn however that MIR p. will b.
able to repair the damage in time make his ascension
tomorrow Sunday, as advertised.
FmE.-About o'clock yesterday morning, q
sman frame building at the corner of Benjamin and
| ichoupitonlas streets, was destroyed By FIRE
FATAL RAILROAD ACcIDENr.-On Thursday
| evening at l0l4 o'clock young named Wm W
MeNe was killed the Lafayette Horse Cars der III,
ico"in circumstances He standing on the outside
othe car and holding by the handle of one Of the
doors, at the time that the Bougny Horse Car was
coming down. The horse in the latter car either
through the csrelessness or ipattention Of tho rv -
came frightened and SHE'D the track Of the Lafy
cite Car bringing the shafts full against the latter
ing OIL the handles of several OF the doors striking the
unfortunate young man with the point the shaft in the
right side above the hip. He Immediately sprapc from
the car ran few feet and fell He was taken to thr
house Of Dr. Robertson hard by whore every attention
was paid him that could be devised by medical skin lie
| died. ~
The deceased was about twenty wears of age and -.
tive OF Maryland He is said have been heir to very
large property In his native state and here on visit
| TO his brother-in-laW
The Coroner yesterday held an inquest on the body
found lying at house on Coliseum Place between po-
lynnia and Urana streets-and rendered The toiinun
verdict Died OF injuries received on the Lafayette
Horse Cars while passing from Bouigny-the shaft
Of the Bouigny Car having struck him the right side
above the hip
GRAND JURY FINDINGS. true bill was ves
terday found against John Kelly for perjury The bill Of
Indictment against the same individual manslaughter
was ignored.
UABEAs CORPUS CAsE.--Dayid Hoffman yes
tetay ned petition ia the First District Court setting
forth that lie citizen Of Pos.y county Iadiaua AMI
that some time in October last his wife Eliza Jane It
his domic and decoyed and rprsualed away Nv ono
Edward Martin; that said Martin teonously stole and
carried away from the possession petitioner personal
property and money belonging to petitioner of the value
~ near three hundred and ninety dollars and the said
Martin after leaving the State of Indiana brought the
Ne and infant child Of petitioner together with the prop
ery so stolen TO this city where he lived with the IL
OF petitioner After the said parties left the State If In
diana be made dgcnt search and in1ury in relation To
Whre they mad gone but was unable 10 get any inforna
ton about them until few weeks ago and as soon az he
aarerained their place OF refuge he came on to this CITY
and caused thu said Martin be arrested on charge Of
larceny before the Recorder thu First District Fur
hermere he caused his said ufint lnughter Missouri
Ann. who then in possession Of his ii WIFI nj sqid
Martin to be taken before said Recorder with view NJ
Getting possession OF her and taking back to ri home
The Recorder refused TO allow petitioner to take posses
sion OF his child but placed her the care and
81 one y, cry police officer # sad District 10 be- held
nn detained By him until p, tienpr could establish h
right n the custody Of said child
Petitioner that being TIE husband of the mother
81 'i clld aud as suca preSunug that he il its father
he is entitled % the possession aaI custody oft
The above allegations considered petitioner prayed for
writ OF habeas corpus to bring the child into court in
order that he might prove his rights with respect "a il
The writ was issued and made returnabe this morning nj
clock
4htl'pi'h IhlAl', Luke burke was yesterday
tried in the First District Court for the murder Of negro
man named Harry. slave OF ID Yapcy ON Tho 1ifb of
February ast The Attorney General and District httor
nty NJ G Dunn appeared for the prosecution and A p
Field for the defence.
II was in evidence that quarrel having arisen between
the negro and Burke the latter threw a stone at d.
ceased anu Knocked him down. Burke was driving a
dfay loaded with cotton which passed the body Of
the negro brnising him badly and causing his death
The case having been submitted to the jury they retired
aud in about five minutes returned with verdict Of
guilty, without capital punishment
STABBING WITH INTENT TO KILL.-Edward
ltoidan policeman OF the Second District yesterday
depoed before Recorder Ramos that on Thuriay night
between eight and nine o'clock being on duty in Cros
man street he heard the cry murder proceeding from
the eyee, and that on repairing the spot man calling
himSsit Henry Cook was pointed out to him the
who had stabbed an individual named Lewis Tippy De-
pancnt took TiHpy and lnt him in a carriage in crt
cal condition Cook was arrested and sent to prison to
await the wound inflicted on Tippy
EXPORTING MoNEY,-Joseph pimperi made
oath before the Recorder Of the First District that the
other day when on board the steamboat j w Rayburn
ont John Baker presented to him bill calling tor S0 Ia
and threatened 70 throw him overheard unless it was
promptly paid Deponcnt being under fear of personal
Violence promised 10 pay the bill whereupon he charges
Baker with having attempted to extor money from him
under false and fraudulent preenccs Examination on
The 7th inst
OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCEs. -
VIM Mcintyre has been arrested by the First District
Police, on an accusation preferred against him by
Ghilds, who charges that the 18Th Of October last
Mcintyre applied TO him for loan sl5O0 TO maid nv
draft drawn by him on the propricor of the steamboat
9AiahaA-the dtaIt being made payable at st Louis
Jay Ner ght IL Is charged that Mcintyre represented
himself as the owner OF the Saranak and possessed of un
t'cumbered property Of the value Of $4,000
uonhding in these statements. complainant lent him
r aforesaid sum Of $500 and in his accusation charges
hat McEntyres statements were all false as said steam
boat has since been seized sold for debts due previous
% sAs as! na@sa asIs and ths. the draft though fer