New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-15


having robbed Sarah Farrell Of trunk Of clothing
and $40 in cash And Ellen Reilly vas arrested in
the same District, yesterday, for stealing Dutch
cheese from Hufts grocery az the corner 81 Moreau
and Spain streets.
FoUED 0pEN,--MessFs. Watkins b Romans carpet
store, No. 30 Camp street, was found open last eve
ming By policeman Thompson. The officer closed the
door and kept his eye on the place during the night
to see that no wandering nightwaIker should fool
about the place.
CooL WAY 70 Ger WARM--A Grayier street coal
dealer, on Saturday, sold man SIS worth Of coal.
and took 10 payment check for $50 on the cisizensf
Bank, giving him sI4 in change. AT The Bank the
check was pronounced fraud. It waa signed Samuel
Ii. Miller and the handwriting was identified "a the
same Or similar to that Of several other fraudulent
checks, presented by innocent parties at the same
bank. The coal dealer lost only his sl4 in change;
the coal as matter Of course, not being left with
anybody who could conscientiously use it.
RECKLESS DR1v1NG.-Joseph Drainin was arrested
at the and Loasa streets on Saturday,
charged with reckessy driving bis omnibus over a
woman and seriously fnjuTng her. He was taken be
fore Recorder Long, who fined him s15 bat after
wards upon eztenuating circumstances being offered
in his behalf the Recorder reduced the fine to S.
The RECoKDERsi CouRTs-Recorder Summers. IN
Saturday, fined or work-housed the usual hard set,
fined number OF ordinance breaking Jehus and dis.
| posed OF other cases as follows; Pat Rooney and
James Burke, charged with breaking into stateroom
on board the steamer Gen. Pike when 20 miles above
the city and stealing 5000 OF $500 in cash, lot Of
clothing, a gold shirt button, and knife all the
property Of Robert 5. McCalaugh, the passenger
tenant OF the room; some Of the articles but none
| of the money, being found in BuFke's possession
sent to prison to be examined on the 18Th proxrno
when the steamer shall again be in port Ellen Ma.
honey, for ASSEMBLING with knife and threatening
to kill Nancy Mayfeld, the Amazonian heenan Il
Basin street. was unable to furnish peace bends and
50 had to go to the Workh0use. Two Perdid0 street
females named Martin and Forrest were aFraigned,
charged with having been accessory TO t1e burning of
| Mary Ann Martin, alias Hollingshead whose death
therefrom on Friday has been duly published. Both
were sent to prison TO await the Coroner's report.
| This made up the bulk of the business before Pc
\ cordeT Summers.
Recorder Witt had nothing special before him. 4
free cOlored woman named Selma Ross, arrested by
| Lieut. Gastine and officer Boullosa, charged with
having in her possession some Of the goods stolen
| from Mrs. StillmsH's fancy store, on Friday was
4 locked up to await examination.
! Recorder Long issued warrant for the arrest Of
three women, charged with relieving W. Fuller Of
S55 in specie Friday night, in house on Elysian
Fields street; also warrant for the arrest OF one
lronton charged with having threatened to kill Mrs.
Widow Suzanne Lenaire, in her own house on Casa
Cal7O street. There was nothing else in the morn
ings business worth mentioning.
1 AT 4o'coek in the afternoon, Recorder Long held
! a special session for the examination of Margaret
Riley, charged with the murder of Mr.. AIphonse C.
| MoreIs child Marie, years and months old the
particulars Of whose mysterious disappearance and
discovery in the pTfyy Of her parents residence on
Columbus street, have been duly detailed in these col
umns. The substance Of the testimony given in the
case we copy from yesterdays papers:
The first witness called the mother of the child
Mrs. Margaret MoFel, She said that Margaret Riley
at O'Clock, p. NJ, on the evening of the childs dis
| agEpd In m IN he yvar No rhi
cried to go with her, aud out the gallery It's
cries stopped and she supposed Margaret had taken
it with her In fifteen minutes Margaret returned,
T and she asked after the child. Margaret said she
did not have the child, and Immediately went out and
staid three hours. Does not know why. She said
the child was fond of Margaret
Mr.. Aiphonse G, Morel, the father, was next sworn
and corroborated the former testimony, except as to
her going out three hours which be said was to hunt
for the child with others. He said the child seemed
to like Margaret in the house, but he could bring Eve
witnesses to prove she had maltreated her in the
street
Police office Roth testified that about five days
after the loss of the child, Margaret Riley asked him
if they could do anythingto her on account Of the
child being lost He answered that it would be ac-
COrding to testimony.
Henry Ballad, boy eleven years Of age, and
nephew Of Mr. More testified that the same after
noon Marie was lost she was walking with Margaret
Riley when the latter told her it the last day she
, was going to bring her out to walk.
DR., Delery testified to having examined the body
OF the Cnlu ana t0unQ no marks oil violence upon It
: whatever The skull was not fractured nor the arm
i broken as stated in some Of the papers
Mr.. Achille u. MOrel testified that on Sunday last
he was prying mp the planks from the floor Of the
priVy, when Margaret Riley glared at him with the
looks of a tigress. She had a stick of wood in one
. hand and Ratchet in the other, and such was her
excitement that she struck the wood across the grain
instead Of perpendicuarly, to split it,
Julia Dgman testified that Margaret Riley came ia
her house aud told her that Marie had been lost
that she had gone to the groceryand could not get
what she wanted there that she shad to go to an
other, and that this made her 20 home another way
SO the child might have followed her and got lost
/ Mr. Alphonse c. MOrel was recalled by the prose
cutiOn but the questions were as to the situation
of bis property, ETC., and had no bearing on the
case
, Mr.. Louis Lombard then addressed the Recorder
on behalf of the prosecution, and Mr.. Bird followed
. for the Defense saying he would bring no testimony
as none was necessary. Mr.. A g. Morel then asked
leave to make some remarks and made reply to Mr.
Bird, which was rather out of order though allowed
Il by the Recorder
The Recorder promised render his decision in the
case on Monday. GTo-day,l
Recorder Adams examined Matthew Cahar or Ma
har charged by the Coroner with murder in shooting
and killing the little boy Matthew Callahan, on thu
Doth of October in front of Mahars house on Fourtl
| street, between Chippewa and Fulton the particu
Il lars of which dreadful affair, elected before th
l. Coroner, we published at the time. 1t was shown
If that Mahar had quarrel and bit of fight with
y man named Richard Mooney that MahaT went int
his house to get his gun, and that whilst he was still
in the house, with the gum il discharged blowing out
+, the brains of the boy who, with a companion wa!
. standing the banguette looking in at the window
: to see what the excitement about. There being
e no testimony to show that NIahar shot the boy pur
pOSely tile Recorder committed him to the First Dis
70 trct Court for manslaughter, and remanded him tt
- prison. Charles Williams for representing himself al
" policeman after he had been dismissed and forciblI
l. taking from a boy hat which had been sent to him
to be delivered only upon payment of its value to the
boy required furnish bonds for his future goo(
+, behavior The Recorder issued warrant for tbs
arrest of Erasmus Smith, mate of the ship Indepen
i dence, charged by Lieutenant Newand with murde
= at sea- during the ships passage from New York tt
this city, by throwing overheard and drowning VIC
a man named Ellen Murphy
. LEIGHTON Il B4RBoP.-Since Adam fell there ha
been civilized community in which social usage
made incumbent upon its members clothing
description, and all things considered think well
But without entering nts discussion Of proprie
that custom has created demand for articles
dress that demand must be supplied with
l. better substitute Adam would not have recognized his reh
extemtes encased in pair Of modern doe skins Of
ton BabOts stock, for time has raised pr
and beneath the father Of mankind les
the yet this late day there many
ahHd Adam for they have been long Disgusting then
Selves in clothing of outlandh manufacture neither
their friends would recognize the in ii
ganeel abrcatons Of The artists superb
goods sold moderate price, the Of St Charles an
Canal Streets tine business location Of the gentlemen whose