New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-08-15

we copy the following account of very mysteri-
ous murder from the New York Evening Post Of the
7th inst: sSB @ =.sif - J. 8 3{55; IN
we have another of those startling and mysterious
crimes to record which have contributed 10 render
human life II our large cities notoriously insecure
aets VI tis tiaisacton, SO Tar as we have been
able to ascertain them, are as follows m
M a week ago last Sunday an Irish servant nrI who
mad been living with family in. Hudson Avenue
bfoohlyh, was turned away from herplace and being
noeess ana frendess or nearly So called at the res
ldence OF Mr.. R. Powell, 37S Hudson Avenue. She
was told that she might remain there for few dys
at any rate, and that she would probably be perrna
nently wanted. She said she had cousin living in
New & lork q. whom she wished to find and on We'd
nesday "a week ago yesterday she left to hunt him
up promising to return that night or the nextmorn.
ing She did not return. however. till Friday when
she informed them that she had found her cousin and
made arrangements to live there. She accordingly
took her things and left. But yesterday afternoon
about O'Clock, she taken there by policeman
IN terrible condition. having been poisoned in the
street The circumstances as she related them before
her death, are these:
She went to her Cousins to live but he snop to,5
her that he should pay her nothing for her services
ana she determined to return to MI. PoWellis She
accordingly etta little before noon yesterday. and
took the cars for one of the ferries When near the
Roosevelt ferry, she got off the cars and as she was
passing along the street, number of persons all ul-
known to her, came crowding around herand stoned
her She demanded that they should let her pass,
ana one OF them replied 4Ou pass if YOU will
take the contents Of this VIAL at the same time pre-
senting vial to her. "I do not want to take that
I want to co. " But you must take itn Il shall
not take it,, was the answer, and she ATTEMPTED to
escape from them; but strong hand seized the back
of her head and held it, another thrust open her
mouth and another forced the contents Of the vial
down her throat. ~ fsa= 'iT7
She saw man approaching who she thought might
help her, and she attempted to go to him, but the
luffians seized her and threw her into the ditch.
When she got up the men had disappeared into eel
lar near by. ,Jg Jss q 9l
She then went to the ferry and got upon the boat,
and soon began to feel sick and dizzy. She vomted
on the boat, and the man having charge of it called
up policeman when they got acrcss to take her to
the stationhouse, as she was drunk He accordingly
took her to the I'd ward sationhouse She protested
that she was not drunk, but had been poisoned She
was then taken to Mr. Powell, at her request, where
she arrived as above stated, about o'clock. A ply
slcian was at once called, and every possible effort
made to save her; but it was to no purpose, and
| about o'clock she died.
The body presents terrible appearance-being
frghtfuly swollen-the poison caused eruptons upon
the face, and the fatal liquid is still oozing from her
mouth, though she has been dead several hours .Ia
The Coroner examined the body to-day and had it
inferred. The examination of witnesses will probably
| take place tomorrow. l. . fs0-H #sFHfi>e7.