New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-02-15
A Short Examination.

in our issue of Monday morning there appeared,
under the local head account of injuries mtcteu
upon Mr. Denis Corcoran on Saturday night last.
The account was as correct one as it was posslple
to obtain, our Reporter having consulted all The
sources of information within his reach with the sole
and single view to carry out his positive Instructions
which are to give fair and unprecedented narrative
of citv events as they occur. With the conductors OF
this journal it is cardinal principle that Whatever
annea1rs in its columns shall be accurate and II,
either through mistake or transformation, they are
led into error they feel it pleasure as well as duty,
to see that ample justice is done to all parties con-
cer1ed. Nothing more could be asked, and nothing
less could be expected, from gentlemen .E
On Tuesday morning the subjoined paragraph, re-
ferrng to the subject mentioned above, appeared in
the local column of the Crescent:
GETTING BErrERAr Cocoran, of the Delta recovering
np %e apn p aao
the decided conviction that his patient was neither brass
ed 10 have BEEN the case but that he was simply beaten Viii
stick The outrage however was none tho less on that account
All of the material statements were received from
source in which full confidence was reposed and
would be again under similar circumstances.
Tuesdays evening Delta referred edtorialy to the
foregoing local item in the Crescent atributing to us
improper motives, to which we responded on We'd
nesday morning, properly and emphaticaly, and IN
manner which no gentleman could misunderstood or
msappreciate We closed, peremptorily, the door to
further newspaper discussions apersonal character
So much for this branch of the subject.
In our article of Wednesday, however, we took oc
casion to say edtoally that the local report quoted
above, was Literally truthful" We had authority
for so saying, we have before remarked, which we
considered good. It appears, however, that our
authority was somewhat mistaken, as the following
card from Dr. Hunt, Mr.. Corcorans medical adviser,
shows. The card appeared in yesterdays morning
Delta:
am of opinion that the wounds inflicted upon Mr. D. Coco
for which, in attendance to him as surgeon were
inflicted with deadly weapon haye authorized one
brass knucklc as have either of these
have said frequently they were not made BY kn or cutting
| New Orleans, Feb 18th, 1856
The foregoing card helps the Deltamen but little
They stated that Mr.. Corcoran had been slung-shot
ted brass knucled, cut and sawed with knife, etc
A knife is the most dangerous of all weapons yet DR.
Hunt says no knife or cutting instrument" was
1 used. Here, then, one-haf or thereabouts of tho
Deltas wouldbe pathetic rgmaroe goes by the board
The Doctor also observes that he had not authorized
any one to state that the wounds were not made
by slung-shot by brass-knuckles, as {he) have
never seen either of these weapons. Not having au
thorized any one to speak for him, and knowing
nothing about such weapons brass-knuckles ETC.,
follows as matter of course, that the Doctor doe
not express an opinion as to the merits Of either sid
of the question. And his opinion that his patient wa
injured by deadly weapon is not evidence tina
he " was not simply beaten with a Stick A heavy
stick, such as we referred to in our editorial o
Wednesday, is certainly very dangerous implement
and would, no doubt, be pronounced by any surgeon
a" deadly weapon"
With this explanation, we dismiss the subject W
regret that the name Of Dr. Hunt-for whom we Ell
tertain high regard, personally and professionally
has been brought before the public in this connection
as it never would have been but fora unwarrantab
editorial attack upon the Crescent, because of a
unimportant local news item which appeared in il
columns ..-.@. .l.& '..-