New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-17
THE DAILY CRESCENT.

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4 an inquest on the body Of child named Julia
i Epgel aged five days, found dead at the house
Of its parents in the Third District. The jury
4 after hearing the evidence returned a verdict Of
death from commissions, caused by its mother
having been greatly frightened, and her breast
\ milk thus poisoned, by her husband" The
= husband, whose name is Theophile Engle, and
& who is notorious character, it appears had
\ assaulted and brutally treated his wife, threat
ening to kill her, and all that sort Of thing;
h the fright she experienced from these threats,
n the physician who examined the child stated
had operated as poison on her milk, which
4 being imbibed by the child, commissions and
Y death ensued On the strength Of this verdict
Engel has been arrested and awaits an exami-
nation on charge of having caused the death
I Of his own child. The mother, too, is not ex-
pected to live.
FIRST DISTRICT
CuTTING.-Ellen Fleming was arrested yes.
terday evening for assaulting and cutting Mary
McManus. and was remande,a to await examina-
ton Maryis not danger ously wounded.
4 DRUNK.-Bridget Core Again, so called, we
suppose, from the frequency of her visits to the
various ponce ofhces'. was found staggering about
helpomene street, night before last, so drunk
# 'nat she was una ole to find her way home. She
was aocommoda ted with lodgings in the watch
house.
Et hoNoKABi X DISCHARGED. - General George
8ashingto n Dixon, who at one time contempla-
tel reVoi utionizing the world, taking Cuba and
annexlr 1g South America, was examined before
actin Recorder Bloomfield yesterday, on a
tha rye of having stolen a dray load of hams
If ON the store of Shultz, Hadden & Latting, on
the day of the big fire. From the evidence, il
was apparent that George had only taken the
aams for the very laudable purpose of saving
them for the owners, and preventing their being
stolen or borrowed, and as his character fol
( honesty has never been doubted, the Recorder
discharged him.
SECOND DIsTRICT.
ANOTHER Duel PREVENTED. passage a
arms under the outrageous shade of the ''oaks'
with small swords between two colored gentle
men, of the Second District, named Baptiste St
B Armand and Louis Tunegano, was to have CONT
] off yesterday evening, but for the interference,
of the police, who were informed of the affair b,
I the mother of one of the parties. The ohivalri
gents were arrested and bound to keep til,
Epeace,
KILLING AND BURNING.--A furious woman
manned Madame S. Reichart, was yesterday ar
Erested in the Second District for having threat
ened to kill the wife of Henry Whitman ever
though it had to be done in that lady's Owl
j bed and then burn down her house with all it
zcontents.
TAxED.-Alf Boswell and Andrew BradIe,
we're each fined $780, by acting Recorder Eli
leul, for aggravated breaches of the peace
INouEsT.-The Coroner held an inquest Of
the body of woman named Elizabeth Eckmeyer
Ia native of Ireland, aged SO years, at the GENE
= terry of St, Vincent de Paul. Verdict, ''Deatl
from apoplexy caused by intemperance."
THIRD DISTRICT.
WIFE BEATING. Frederick Reader is in Gus
tody in the Third District, charged with as
saulting and beating his wife Louisa Rober
Forbes is also charged with committing SINH
lar offence on his wife Margaret; and job
Cochran is in custody on a charge of brutall
beating and kicking his wife.
ASSAULT ON A WoMAN-Patrick Waters await
EASAuHlllhtIou III VIC lhilu biobliot vi bAo Shdi
of having cowardly assaulted and cruelty beatel
Mrs Benson.
/ SELLING LIQUOR TO SLAVES. Mr.. Barrere
who keeps a cabaret on the corner Of Union an
Rampart streets, was reported by the Thir
District police for selling liquor to slave
CONTRARY to the statutes in such cases made an
provided.
Il MELANCHOLY ACcIDENT.--A friend in As
assumption furnishes us with the following par