New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-08
CITY ITEM 9.


THURSDAY, September o.
Edos CfeseentIin your paper Of this morning, under
the head 81 Horrible Murder Of Little Girl you have
done horrible Injustice TO innocent inosps;ye worthy
and intelligent woman Frustrated on bed Of sickness
and unable from her bodily inrmes to appear before
the proper authorities to yndicate herse from The Toni
charges that have been published against her The mat
ter y now undergoing legal investigation That inves
tgston VIII show that the sick woman accused Of
derng the child Is entirely guiltless Of any offence
eyerthat she was lying helpless the bed, when by
some ignorance of the servants the
pnene took hre which caused the death Of the little girl
me servant woman Of the sick lady burnt OF her
hands very badly in caspng the chids head in trying
put out the flames that enyeoped It, For her pains she
was accused of throwing camphene the child there
Is any crazy woman In the 1t is Mrs Brown the
foster mother Of the child In the excitement and dis
treas Of mind entering the and seeing the child
enyeoped In flames and the servant girl trying TO exn-
gsh the fire. she crazy enough to jump to the con-
cuson that the sick womans servant girl throwing
scared the girl on To-day however she came hack 10
Mrs Browns and has, or will give, doubt very diff
ferent version to The calamity from that published this
morning-one which will entirely exonerate the sick vo-
man from any blame in the matter whatever
de,s error aso % represent the sick lady as
to leave the house before she did The immediate cause
o. her leaving was that Mrs b. objected one of her
ady visitors coming to the house to ait up with her The
ady VINO came to sit up with her has long still
s teacher In the public schools Of this city and was or
dered out of the house By Mrs Brown and not going a
Waterman was called to put her out but the watchman
"a polite Frenohman) finding that the sick lady had
rented the and the sick lady fortunately speaking
ST up and watch by her side all night The next day
the sick lady determined to leave the house. and her
friends engaged lodgings for her elsewhere The follow
Ing day as she got ready to leave the house the
cdent with the camphene which resulted in the death OF
the little girl occurred It mooted point where the
camphene came from The sick lady used candles In
cpoking lamp. When nearly ready to move the servant
girl got the lamp from which unknown had
moved the candle and substituted campheus which the
sick ladys servant girl mistook for oil and hence the
accident which resulted in the death Of the child who
happened to be standing near by when the cspsne AZ
ploded. A Fa1Rsp 70 JusrIcE
New 0RLEANs FRipAr Sept T.
Messrs Editors-Your remarks on my communication
this morning have rather made the in regard to
that it is in conflict with the evidence given before the
Coroner It will appear from further investigation that
ne verdict OF the Coroners inquest erroneous being
medical Jurisprudence, and that science will demonstrate
to every the utter mpossbty of the evidence
before the Coroner, on which the verdict founded
being true That evidence that the sick woman
threw the child on the burning flames of eamphne The
child would In that case have been uniformly burnt or
all that part OF the body thrown into the flames Dr.
Mosss testimony will that the child was burnt in
spots precisely would have been burnt If standing
beside an exploding lamp, near it's head Mrs. Browns
servant woman, or some else the candle out of
the sick womans lamp and put in caphfpe and the SER
want girl taking for oil to pour in more and the
accident happened The sick womans lady friend Who
Is teacher in public Schools told the sick lady that
MIS-. z house was not proper place for her, and
wanted her to change her lodgings Mrs. Brown
ing it, became violently incensed against the school mis-
rsss and forbade her coming house and actually
called Waterman to her of the
night This was the cause of the sick lady leaving
gether with other matters convincing her that 1t was not
3 proper house for her to stay at.
FRIEND JUSTICE.
THE CHILD MURDER.-Deputy Coroner Mitch
oil yesterday made bis affidavit before Recorder Ramos
charging Mss Sheldon with the Of the little girl
Mary Brown, and Ann Jones with being an accessory
CHARITY HosPITAL-The following is the re-
Of this institution for the week ending Friday even
Ing, September 7, at o'clock: 49, 49,
Admitted
Diaenarged.. ........................ 214
p,sa lo4
hehalhing.... 5Ta
Of the deaths 81 were by yellow fevera considerable
from last week. During the ast days the
decrease was very rapid.
DUEL WITH KNIVES. joaquin Blaneo and
Dionitio Real two OF the Mediterranean bhoys drew
their whugers and rolling up their sleeves for
real pirntical duel Thursday night Eysau Fields
street Officers Berlin and Henderson, happened to be
close by stepped in and prevented the u by marching
both to the caabooae there to remain until Recorder eu
xaneau should act as an arbiter In the matter.
FIRST DISTRICT CoURT.--Judge Robertson
opened court yesterday to hear applications for hoas
coas-one for admitting to bail Mrs Theresa smelser
awaiting trial as an accessory to the murder of her
band and the other for admitting bail Mr. Crosse the
writing master of Canal street awaiting trial forgery
Mrs smelser,s application was continued till to-day Mr.
was fully argued and taken under adriseen by
the Judge.
DIsNrssED-Mary Murphy Margaret Feen-
arty. Isabella Domingo and Mary MEG rain accused OF
Of keeping dsordery house. yesterday discharged
by Recorder Bright after sitting of cases Tho
OF Mary osbornes dsordery conduct appeared
consist In not paying her rent it being her landlord
who prosecuted |
SELLING TO A SLAvE.-Charles and Elizabeth |
Blade though toeraby sharp pair of blades were still
not sharp enough for Capt Moynau who yesterday had
hem up before Recorder Bright on charge of selling
glass of brandy to Mrs Parks Oscar in their coffee
at the OF Baronne and Grod streets on the
I'D ult. They gave bail to appear on the 18th
ASSAULTS AND BATTERIES The following COM
olaints lodged before Recorder Ramos yesterday
BY Mary Stanton, residing at the of Bienyie
md Basin streets, charging Mrs Ford with abusing
cratching and beating her with stick of Tues
lay last and Mrs Gurren Thomas Murphy, and Thomas
tolloran, with rendering Mrs Ford material aid. All
trrested and held to bail.
By Louis Mouedous, residing at the of Cont
md burgundy streets, charging Thomas Zauki with as
aultng him with stick and threatening to kill him
Arrested and in prison.
BY Peter Hanson, of No. 24S Bienvle street charging
ohn Filler with striking him with his fist. Warrant
ssned.
By olemence auadezf c. Of No $50 st. Peter street.
marrying Madame Ball with beating her (Clemenee,sl |
little child. Warrant issued
WoRK-HoUsE, ETc.-Mary MeManus, Ba-
street incorgbe yesterday sent out for sixty
lays; Mary 9. Davis and Mary Beam Drawer street
bominables. were sent out for mouth.
Owen Hamberry, sent out to tho Work house on the
day. was found to be actually crazy and
erred to the Insane Asylum.
Christians Riques for disturbing the peace and smash
one Of Mr Hooks windows at the Lafayette
md Prieur streets, sent to the Parish Prison for
Month in default of paying S25 fine. Philip Conners for
esstng and abusing officer Dalton sent to prison for
en- days, not being able to pay up S..
James WikinsoD, for interfering with and resisting
cer Nixon, St Charles street. got off by paying $40
F. H. Lenning, the Third District policeman who tried
pull August Richter out of his bedroom window in
runken froc, was bound in 5000 to behave himself
Or six months.
ABUSING WHITE PEOPLE. - Mary Douglas, f,
was arragned before Recorder Bright yesterday on
charge of necessarily and outrageously abusing Mrs
iercie Gonzales, her daughter servants at No
% Carondelet street. Mary furnished $500 bail to toe
he mark on the 18th.
A WATERMAN. - Corporal Mcfarland has re-. +
orted Policeman Nelson for gross neglect of duty in
ot answering his raps and in permitting helpless blind
,an to sleep and crawl about his beat when should
ave taken him to the lookup. The Mayor and all the
'ecorders will investigate the matter ss>es.
CoTToN STEALERs Officer Porche Yesterday
ad Lawrence Chartres Loyanne Dupendollar and Mar
aret Clause arraigned before Recorder Ramos ON a
barge Of stealing cotton the leyee on the dsy pre-
lous. They all gave bail to appear when notified
&s THF MOST HFFIOACIOUs. IL
QuEEKc, February It'll, 1866.
IN ESSRS. B. A. FAHNESTOGK u Cove
had the pleasure oreceiving this morning. within cc6
70 your which will very gratifying you as
wac cent voluntarily. = e
We are gentlemen, yours very traly. -
GRsrLEMgN My little daughter yeara old and nv son. Older