New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-20
NE us OF THE CITY.

The following is the report of the interments
4 in all the Cemeteries of the City for the week
ending at o'clock A. NJ. on Sunday, the 10th
inst /: Odd Fellows Rest, 1; Cypress Grove No.
| /, L; Cypress Grove No. 2, 10 Charity Hospi-
| tai, 8; St Patrick's, %; Catholic No. l, Second
District, s; Catholic No. 2, Second District Z /;
| St Vincent de Paul, Third District, II Lafay-
cite, Fourth District, 81; Hebrew, ?. Total,
1903.
fnguest---An inquest was held yesterday
upon the body of Scotch woman named Ann
Hanton, aged about 55 years. found dead in a
| ditch near the corner of Poydras and Johnston
streets. A verdict was rendered attributng her
death to apoplexy. 1t appears deceased had
gone out on the night previous to obtain some
groceries, and had stumbled into the ditch,
either under an attack of apoplexy or under the
| influence of liquor, and being unable to extri-
cate herself she persisted. The fact that her
head was above the mud and water led the Jury
| to believe that she had neither drowned nor
smothered.
| A slave named Beverly is under arrest in the
First District on suspicion of having stolen two
| sacks of cotton, which were found in his pos
session.
| Fire.--A fire broke out about daylight yes
| terday morning in grocery store at the Mobile
Landing, New Basin, 1t was extinguished be.
fore doing much damage.
Ctatmg.-Patriok OMAHA was arrested on
Melpomene street night before last charged with
cutting John Farrell on the neck with knife.
| Farrell was not dangerously wounded.
| .Nurder.--A man named Frank Smith was
| arrested last evening on Common street charged
with having beaten his wife SO severely as to
preclude the possibility of her recovery They
lived in o shanty on Common street, far out
| towards the swamp, and it is said the deed was
committed while Smith was laboring under a fit
| Of drunkenness The woman was conveyed to
the Charity Hospital in dying condition, and
Smith was locked up in the First District police
jail.
Examination on the Charge of Murder
| 1t will be recommended that a man named John
Morton was arrested in the First District a few
| days since, charged with the murder of free
woman Of color named Nancy Davis, who lived
| In house on Phil1ipa street, between Girod and
| Julia. The evidence of several women living in
| the immediate neighborhood of deceased went
| to show that on the 9th inst. Morton, who was
| in the habit of visiting her, quarreled with her
| because she refused to give him small sum of
money; he finally threw some water, and becom-
| ing enraged by the language she used towards
him, knocked her down, stamped upon and kick
| ed her, inficting such severe injuries that she
died on the 18th inst. A coroner's inquest and
| q post niortens examination were held on the
body, and it was found that death was produced
by infam8ti0n of the stomach, caused by the
blows and kicks she had received. Morton has
been sent before the Criminal Court for trial on
| the charge of murder.
FIRST DISTRICT CoURT-Judge Robertson
The State VS.. Louis .SchIesinger. The trial
of this cause occupied the whole of last week
and has attracted considerable attention from
the probable responsibility of the parties con-
cerned, and the talent engaged in the prosecu-
ton and defense.
Schlesinger was flibuster in the Lopez
expedition, and pretends to be q Hungarian
refugee He is charged with having stolen
1850 from Mrs Bryan, who, at the time, kept
boarding house. and with whom accused had
previously boarded The main object of the
defense appeared to be to show the existence of
q malicious conspiracy against the fllibustering
Major, and to prove that an improper intimacy
had subsisted between that individual and the
prosecutri4. We believe, however, that this at
tack upon Mrs. Bryans character did not
amount to much #M
After lengthy arguments by the District
Attorney and W. J. A. Roberts, for the prose
cution, John G. Larue and j. L. Segur for the
defense, the case was su admitted to the jury at
late hour of Saturday night
We learned last evening that the jury were
unable to agree, and that there was little pros
pect Of a verdict being soon rendered.
Sentenced, The following sentences were
pronounced in this Court on Saturday last, by
Judge Robertson
On Geo Weltering $40 fine and costs. Found
guilty of an assault on H Martins, on the 18th
Of June. The jury in giving their verdict re-
commended him highly to the mercy Of the
Court, which, we presume, accounts for the
lightness of the sentence
Thomas Carol, sentenced to forty eight hours
in the Parish Prison and costs of prosecution
He was found guilty on the 10Th of February,
of an assault and battery on Blaize Michlier,
and recommended to the mercy Of the Court.
Louis Loyenstein was sentenced to twelve
months hard labor in the State prison. Found
guilty on the 18th of February of an assault
with q knife on Louis Croizy