New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-15
NUMBER 1879.
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WdS sslH Hofe Aorfyoie Imam the dAy before. The |
contractors proved their sovereign contempt OF the
public who throng Camp street, by not leaving feet
crossing to Commercial Place, few Of the loose
stones lying near, and five minutes work would have
suffced. For this contempt of thers or their want
Of courtesy to the people whose business they are
and whose daily walks they are extend
ing and aggrayating, we hope the contractors,
Nicholson Il Co., will be remembered, and that they
will never get another contract for paving in any
decent part Of the city.
POLICE Observation-Disclosures Dryden of the
First District who has been acting as Lieutenant Of
the Fourth District since the emeute of this day
fortnight recalled to bis station in the First
District yesterday by the Mayor and Sergeant Moore,
OF the upper First District Station who had acted as
Lieutenant Of the First District in the absence Of
Lieutenant Dryden, went mp and took charge as
Lieutenant of the Fourth District by the Mayors ap
pointment. We are confident that the Garden Dis
trict long preeminent for its peace and good ORDER
as compared with the other Districts will be if pos
sbe still more orderly and peaceful under the control
OF Lieut.. Moore. - -5 .4.5 .
DIFFERENCE AMONG THE Enthusiastically
notorious thief, known to the police throughout the
country as Frank Humphreys, arrived here. Being
an elegant, sharp and most accomplished thef-one
of the kind who seldom caught in their nefarous
acts but who If ever caught or strongly suspected
have wit and money enough left to extricate them
selves-the police arrested him, not for anything he
had done, but to prevent him from practising bis
usual legerdemain on his usual sharp and heavy
scale. Chief Adams and his specials knew the man
well, and well, that they swore positively to hfs
character before Recorder Summers That magistrate
committed Mr.. Humphreys to the Work-h Mr..
Humphreys, through counsel, applied for liberty,
through the habeas corpus act. Judge Howell, be-
fore whom the was tried, gave excellent legal
reasons for his decision, which was that such man
was dangerous to the community, and that the Re.
corder sustained by law, justice and reason, in
preventing him from practising his we'll known pro.
fesson in this city. The writ was accordingly dis.
missed, and Mr.. Humphreys remanded to the Work
house. Mr.. Humphreys next applied for another
writ of habeas corpus, which was taken out before
Judge Duvigneaud. The writ was argued. Judge D.
decided that no man could be deprived Of his liberty
without trial by jury, and that the prisoner had not
had fair trial before the Recorder. The Chief of
Police, being present. stated that be had been fairly
examined before the Recorder. The Judge stated
that the prisoner had been committed on the oath of
an officer, and not the testimony Of others also
that the case did not require him to decide to the
constitutionality of the vagrant act He confirmed
the writ, and ordered the discharge of Mr.. Hum
phreys. As soon as Mr. Il. was discharged, Chief
Adams re-arresed him and took him back to prison.
Mr.. Humphreys is still in limbo. How the case
will end we know not. But here is difference
between two judges, as to whether notorious pro-
essional thief shall have the privilege Of reapng his
usual harvest in midst not one deciding that
be shall be prevented from doing, and the other
deciding that so long as be is not caught in his
thevery he shall be respected and permitted to roam
free as the best. We don't pretend to say which
judge is right or which wrong, for each has his learn
ing, and his books at his back, but for the good Of
the community, we do hope that Judge Howell is the
right judge The Supreme Court probably, will de-
eide the question some of these days. tits aquestion
which cries out loudly for final decision Meantime,
thieves and pickpockets are flockng here from all
parts Of the country they know that habeas corpus
in New Orleans has a wider margin than in other
cities; they have all read and glory in Judge Duyig
neauds decision and of them has the audacity to
say to the police II know I'm thief, and never
denied it wait till you catch me at something If you
take me in you can't hold me, for can get out by
habeas corpus Habeas corpus, we know, lisa good
thing, and in many sacred but it is hard to
it become an instrument for the protection Of we'll
known thieves and scoundrels from other places who
may chose to make New Orleans their headquarters,
and who are ocking hither now from oil directions
AGooD JOKE ON ScHNE1DER.-A German proprietor
of cheap boarding house in cheap part Of the
First District, on Thursday had one of his boarders
arrested for trying to pass upon him counterfeit
Or worthless bank bill of 500. The sharp one had
not only boarded two weeks upon showing the inno
cent Teuton greasylooking bill torn in two, with
100" the corners and pretty pictures oil around,
and signatures at the bottom, but had borrowed
small it besides. The BILL at the police Office,
proved to be one Of those advertising limitations which
look like bankbls, but are not such when read. The
central picture represented the Victoria bridge near
Montreal, and was overarched by the ancy-lettered
words "Banks of the st. Lawrence" with "yictoria
Bridge" hamingy engraved beneath. The apparently
written signatures those Of the architedt builder
ETC., Of the famous bridge. The sharp one who went
so far on the bill, will have opportunity of explain
ing the joke to Recorder Summers to-day.
The CARRoLLToN RAILROAD AcoIDENT.-The
Coroner yesterday concluded his inquest into the
death of Edward Dalton, who was killed few days
since by being run over by one of the Carrollton
locomotives, at the Tivoli Circle Depot. Mr.. CAL
houn, President of the N. o. j. and G. N. Railroad
COmpuHy, WAS tuCTt ht VIC dWdltiuS tuc Sdr-
rollton uptran He witnessed the accident, and his
testimony to the effect that the death of Dalton was
not his own fault much as the fault of the engine
driver was so minute and conclusive that the Coro
ners jury gave verdict attributng Dalton's death
to the recklessness of the engineer. The testimony
was lengthy, involving complete description of the
tracks and switches at the depot, the usual move
ments of the locomotives after quitting the trains to
go to the turntable, and the duties and movements
Of Dalton, who was an employee at the depot, and
who got killed whilst attending to his duty. The
Coroner prepared process verbal for the Recorder
and the engineer, whose name was not made known,
will be arrested and brought up in good time.
A DIFFICULTY, DOMESTIC OR OTHERwlsE,-Mar-
tin Nagel yesterday complained to the Second Dis
trict police, that his lawful wife, Christine Drog-
brook, had deserted his bed and board, taking with
her lot of their household traps, and $5Ol so of bis
individual property, in gold and silver coin. He got
out search warrant, with which officers Morano and
Omedas found her. in house on Front Levee street,
and in her pockets the missing 1901 80, not dime
Of it having been spent. The discovery of the
money involved the arrest of the fair Christine and
she made her case worse by stonty declaring that
she was not the wife of Martin Nagel.
ALLEGED HORSE STEALING.-Thomas Long, stay.
ing at Cunningham's stable, No. SO Franklin street.
was arrested yesterday morning on charge Of
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