Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-19

cook near the parties when the pistol was
fred; rs soon as the pistol was fred the crowd
around witness fell back; witness entered and
saw man standing with his hands to his
breast two gentlemen came up the room
towards witness; one Of them had q pistol;
the man walked out on Pennsylvania Avenue
and walked across to brick house saw
the French cook in the street at that time;
at the time the shot was fred witness saw De-
venois make motion with his hands; whom
Deven6is was in the middle Of several per.
sons; saw one of the men leave the group about
the time Of the shot this man was running
he ran away after Devenois came in witness
not see any fight going on at the time Of the
shot did not see any one pressed down; wit
ness was standing in the south door at the
time was at Wizards on business. .e1.s
Cross-examined.-Ist the first time he has
been on this stand; witness mentioned to his
brother about the transaction Is soon as he
got home; spoke to Pat Heating, he thinks,
the same day about it; had . consultation
with Charles Werner; told Werner that if
Herbert was beaten by three or four walters
he would have done the same as Herbert
did; did not zee Herbert beaten himself, but
thought from blood on his nose that he had
been beaten; doesn't remember what time
he told Werner this; is satisfied it was
within three days after the ARRAY when
the corpse passed the house of witness, on
Its way to the inhrmary, he ran up the
steps and saw Patrick Heating with it, with
. blue eye, and asked him how he got it;
thinks he spoke to no other Of the walters but
Heating; from the noise he thought there was
. fight going on, but when he got in, there
was none of it; he got his impression from the
noise that there was a fight going on; told
Werner he saw the ARRAY he told Werner that
| If Herbert was beaten by the walters he would
ha rhar
sons there wouldn't let him say any more;
| cook was very near the party when the shot
was fired; did not see any chairs used has
had conversation with Mr. Werner very often;
| witness thought there had been q fight be-
cause the parties looked az if little fighting
had been going on; when Werner told wit
| ness that he (witness) had said he could do as
| Herbert did, he got excited and said No,
Charley, you are mistaken" he had said thai
| if it was so, that Herbert had been beaten by
walters, he would have done as Herbert did;
| the persons who stopped witness from talking
| at Werner's, he thinks, were Germans; the
| remarks witness had made to Werner were
| not made upon what witness saw himself to
| take place, but upon what he supposed had
taken place; at the time the shot was fred
the cook appeared as if trying to separate
| them; did not notice what the others were do
| ing, but noticed the cock from his dress; there
was scufaing when he went in, but no noise
| of throwing.
The defence objected to a question as to
who had summoned the witness on former
| occasion. ..
The Court here took recess of twenty
minutes up to the time we 90 to press.
JS0 RAY CAUGHT, over tie left - This
morning young man was taken to the Guard
House by q county officer, who appeared to be
i dol iOh foA zha- h.
Mills that this man was Ray, the prisoner
who escaped from the Jail The Captain
looked at the prisoner and then at the officer,
as If doubling the correctness of the statement.
The bystanders began to laugh the Captain
and the prisoner smiled; the officer looked
confused, and was completely COMPOUNDED,
when one of the bystanders remarked th at the
prisoner was not John Ray but Patrick Rady,
| who resembied Ray about as much as q horse
does sheep. The officer explained that man
| pointed him out as Ray, and he thought he
was justified in taking him. r ,dy laughed at
| the officers mistake, and advised him not to
be too fast in making arrests Rady went to
his work, and the officer left to be laughed at
by his friends who were delighted with the mis-
| take, as it turned out to be harmless.
| SERIOUS ACCIDENT Yesterday afternoon,
| a colored boy named VIM. Shorter was ar.
rested by Officer Parham and taken before
Justice Ofutt on the charge of shooting a
| small boy, a son of DR.. Mcconnell, with a pis-
| toll. Several witnesses, all small boys, were
examined, and they entirely cleared the boy
Shorter of any intention Of shooting McCon-
nell. He had pistol and was going about
with the boys exhibiting it He raised the
hammer Of the pistol and 1t slipped from hi.
hand and discharged the load in Mcconnell,
face. 1t was stated at the Office tn at one of
the boys eyes is certainly destroyed. The
| Justice dismissed the case with lecture to
children, and there was a crowd Of them at
the office, upon the improperly and danger Of
carrying deadly weapons; and TO parents up.
on the necessity for care in the proper train
ing OF children and to the prisoner upon the
result Of his folly.
INsURANEE AaEScIEs.-Yesterday Mr.. D.
| A. Hall appeared before Justice Hall to an
swer the charge of acting as agent of an in
| surance company without license. The wit
| nesses not appearing in this case at the proper
i time it was dismissed.
Mr. Hall then remarked that after to-day
the officers would let him Get. At the same
time he drew from his pockh his license, and
showed that he had complied with the law.
Several other CAGES remained to be tried
| under the Corporation law, which will be
found in the act approved December IL, 1S4s,
| to license, tax, and regulate agencies of insu.
rance companies. This law requires the agent
| to obtain license, and every violation sub
jects the agent to fne Of forty dollars. No
person having license for one company is
authorised to act for another without obtain.
ing license to act for that company.
FINE STeCK.-Our friend Vanderwerken
passed through Washington this morning with
a very fine lot Of new stock for his omnibus
line These horses were bred in western
Pennsylvania, are active, clean-limbed, sound
and serviceable They must prove quite an
addition to the efficiency of his present teams,
on which the comfort Of the good folks of the
District Of Columbia depends 30 much. more
especially in the present state Of the weather.
We hear that he is soon to place o new set of
coaches on his routes.
NATIONAL THEATRE Fun for tho MI
Hon.-Our community is fairly hungry and
athirst for something in tho amusement line,