New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-27
NE US OF THE CITY.

The following is the report of the interments
in all the Cemeteries Of the City for the week
ending at o'clock A. NJ. on Sunday, the Goth
inst; Odd Fellows Rest, 0; Cypress Grove No.
l, 4; Cypress Grove No 2, II Charity Hospi-
tai, Is; St. Patricks, 81 ,Gathoic No. l, Second
District, 0 Catholic No. 2, Second District, 10;
St, Vincent de Paul, Third District, a. Lafay-
cite, Fourth District, Is; Hebrew, Metairie
Ridge, Protestant, Girod street, s. Total,
116.
The Murder Case.-On Saturday last
Frank Smith was examined before Recorder
Winter, charged with having murdered his
wife on the night of the 10th inst. Deceased
and her husband, as we have previously men
toned, lived in shanty on Common street,
far out towards the swamp, and on the night
in question come persons in the neighborhood
heard cries and shrieks of distress, and soon
after Mrs, Smith was found outside the house in
a most awfully bruised and mangled condition,
speeches. and apparently dying. Officers were
sent for, and when they arrived, Smith was
found lying in bed he was not apparently
drunk, yet he looked with brutal Indifference
upon the mutilated body of his wife; avowed
himself the author of the deed, and declared
that he was willing to be hanged for it. He has
not SO far as we can learn, yet assigned any
| reason or cause for his crime. The woman was
conveyed to the Charity Hospital and died in q
few hours. post norton examination was
held by DR., Bayles, who testified that her skull
was completely crushed and broken in on the
back part and left side, which must have been
produced by blows with some heavy, blunt in
strument. The brain was so much injured as to
render recovery impossible. Both arms were
broken, and several Commissions and cuts found
| upon the body. Smith was sent before the First
District Court for trial on the charge of murder
.4rson Cdse.--It will be remembered that a
few days ago Manuel Latino, who kept grocery
store near the New Basin, and Manuel Bosque,
| his clerk, were arrested on charge of having
set fire to said grocery store the lower story of
which was almost entirely consumed before it
could be extinguished The examination of
these two promising Castilian gentlemen came
1 off before Recorder Winter last Saturday, and
resulted in Latino proving an dls6a, by hook or
crook and he was accordingly discharged
Matters not appearing quite SO clear for Bosque,
however, he was retained fora further examina-
ton of the case. He made, yesterday, to the
| officers at the lookup, statement which, if
true, amounts to a confession of his own and his
masters guilt in the affair. He declared that
on the day previous to the fire Latino informed
/ him that he intended to burn down the building
and recover the insurance, and warned him not
to sleep in the store as he had previously done
| that after the store had been closed, Latino
collected large quantity of combustible ma
| terial brooms, barrel slaves, etc and sprinkled
whisky over the pile he (Bosque) then made
his way out through a back door, and the fire
soon after broke out, Upon this statement Latino
was Immediately re-arrested and locked up to
await second examination. We are informed
by persons who reached the scene of the fire
immediately after its discovery, that there was
every indication of its having been the work of
an incendiary,
Murder, 1.-Two men named Jean Bodard and
VALERIE Monin got into a quarrel night before
last on ST. Claude street, in the Second District,
when the former stabbed the latter in several
places, cutting open his intestines and inficting
such severe injuries that it was thought by the
physicians who attended him he could survive