New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-04-21
( yEtp TIE DegEpgic.

5#Ess3.. S q Etp The IL ssEeSSc. J
So many and 50 contradictory ne reports
jill reference to the murder H. Stevens clerk q
Ohio Belle and to what TRANSFERRED subsequently the marae,
that deem it due TO the passengers oheets any
boat to give what believe to be true u ny
affair. AZ a5y. "a. asggs4s IL "a, III
ba nbio ReIlc under my commando her way from Gncin
New orleans landed smithland about
on lie 18th March, to land and take in some tre'ght hu
doing this business the boat was shovel oh
hing from the shore was again landed and took on
board passenger who gave his name as Jones' haryan the
got shaved the barber Of the bout ana offered
him payenta $40 note purportns 70 DE on the bk u
Shelby vile, Tennessee 658 sEt 4 5=ist
The barber the note Stevens and wns by him told that
Hethen took it back 70 Jonesand told Inn
what the clerk said seemed TO angry ana
said would sec the ascertain whye said the note
was bad one the clerks ONCE where Stevens then
was asked why he questioned the genuineneso OF the
Stevens replied That the note in Ills opinion was worth
ess that he himself would not take and that he told the par
I her what he belieyedt to be true. NJ y.
Jones standing the hall Immediately outside the Office then
Stevens using suh Language and in such bosterous
manner call the attention Of the and annoy oil
heard them Stevens went out fthe Office and spoke to
him. telling him that unless he behaved himself he must leave
cabin and Jones sill continuing his abusive Language Ste
took hin, by the and walked with him out Of the hall
forward the boiler deck When they outside the hall Ste
told him that he ought the Language he had in the
cabin Of steamboat and that after he became
cool they would talk and settle it. Jones made some re-
ply in low and Immediately drew revolver and shot Ste
He then started rum going aft the larhoad guard
through the between the cabin and the wheehoue
the after steps the hurricane deck Stevens followed him
twelve when he fell taken and carried
into the cabin and the wound being examined BY medical gen
tlennanI a passenger was pronounced mortal
made two three efforts to speak, and was understood TO
say that wished bathed but he spoke ndistinc
those present could understand definitely what he
wished to say. He lived some fifteen twenty minutes
Jones was followed BY second clerk of the boat on the
hurricane deck and knocked down and then kicked
face which caused his mouth to bleed Twas close be-
hind the second clerk and when reached Jones he was
with the pistol in his hand and did not offer to rise thing
there except these two and Miss Herr
myself Ina minute or two others came up when
the mate and some men, had Jones bound taken
to the deck made fast staunchion in the engine
room aft the boilers tied above tho and
two or of the taken around his body and
arms md around sannchon. This about IL or l3s
O'clock MI Wereached Cairo about noon went up into
town and coffin for the remains of Stevens and then
asked Messrs and Norton to send for aawye as
wished the prisoner at Cairo for trial The
q lawyer think shouse came on board and adj
that all probability the court would discharge Jones
for want of jurisdiction if left him at Cairo then deter
II take him to Hickman KY and deliver MN 10 me
proper authorities We were detained Cairo until about
o'clock NJ While lying there wife came to me and told
me rope slipped or the prisoner ad Slipped down.
and would strangle turn Of the rope was around
his neck went him and finding that the faenings had
slipped u had the upper of the rope taken off leaving
only those his and body and as he complained Of
being tired chair to him to sit upon and had him re-
OF uOctor IN
after boilers and in sight Of the engineer on watch
He was made fast there with his tied and his body tied TO
the supply pipe and in such that he could sit down. lie
was the chair his feet were not tied together and
there we're fasenngs except those above stated The
object keep him not to torture him. and the deter
mnation was take him Hickman, and there leave him for
trial. ~
va stoned some twelve miles below Cairo wood,
and the boat being full of freight deck this detained us from
t one hour and half While woodng the passengers
took supper supper over went on the hur
cane into the pilot house 1t now near if not quite
Il dark twenty five miles above Hickman
o'clock passed up the pilot house that Jones
missing could the pilot house. but sent down ORDER
at once searche boat for him which done diligently
thoroughly without The asenings had been cut
the line showing hs plainly and tho chair which
Jones had been sitting gone The boat crowded full
i freight i'll tile engine roo and my first impression tia
Jones had himself with The viewof making his
when we landed At the time of his disappearance the engi
neer had stepped the journals of the main shaft
= when he returned his station the engines the prisoner
gone then about the middle of Wolf Island some ter
miles Hickman which reached about 10 O'Clock The
wind blowing Shore and the boat was landed
put ashore the boat got again
sibIe neither hailed any shore myself, nor to
knowledge any communication between person OF
= board the boat and amy person on shore.
The only passenger board the Ohio Belle who had been
a California heard Of Dr. Ghon of Philadelphia,
at the time of prisoners disappearance he in his berth
being about comfortably because of an injury
ty one Of his the alarm of his given he
H. up, and remained up u short time.
At the time Of the there very naturally
deal Of excitement among the well as the
and was fearful Of them might take the law into the
til own hands, had apparently died and all on boa
cr seemed to with the conclusion deliver Jones to Il
,r, proper authorities at Hickman.
This believe to statement Of all the circumstance
ed of this deporabe affair." for the truth of it refer TO the
'h senEers generally and NJ l. Duncan and Thomas Early
Cincinnati Fighmasef and Cooper of Unontown K.
w Dr. Gion Philadelphia and Capt Ben Noses of the Qua
temasters Department. U. s. Army, particularly, as well
oa the officers of the boat.
lis The Memphis Bulletin of the LIST of April makes cha
rst Ges against the Ohio Belle What authority that
per has for charges do Know but have only to
ILL that they is strange that respectable neTpape
re- WILL the impulse of the moment give currency and cred
reports injurious without being entirely satis
ten their The editor conductor of cannot be
CAREFUL incidental remark in the editorial column
rim may of great injustice and deliberate charges
5 made carry them much of authority that
T. ruined by them without the chance of redress.
lot Those will bear testimony to character
Inc law abiding man. all who the Ohio Belle Mt
in time will exonerae from the charge of desire to
~ lynch law on the murderer Of Stevens. ..
avg 49,. JOHN SEBASTIAN,
IN sra@- Captain Steamer Ohio Belle
NV Cincinnati April 10, 1856 2plt