New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-26
would be willing to sell himself at large discount
upon his previous selfvaluation.

Defended by Col. Field and Mr.. Earnaft, anu Prose
cuted by Mr. Reynolds.
Mrs. Burgess testified that on the previous Satur-
day night the prisoner came TO her house. wnere ne
had previously brought bis wife. When she nrst
wanted money, prisoner left, and said be was gong
to st. Louis. He came back again but al,erWaios
went away. On Friday he came there where MS
at her. Witness told him to take his wife, At night
Robb came with dirk, and commenced swearing
terribly breaking up chairs and saying that ne would
kill every woman and child in the house ne then
jumped upon her and bruised her terribly and was
about stabbing her. when she rescued the knife from
bis hand. Witness was cut upon her hands. Prise.
ner said he was going to set fire to the house, and
prisoners wife told her that he had attempted to set
Gre to the house, and showed her where he had
burned one Of the comforterS. He also cut one of
the little girls. Witness told prisoners wife that she
could not stay there; but she could not take up a
stick and drive her away. No one tried to modest
Robb that she saw.
Mrs. Helen Martin testified that she was at Mrs.
Burgess the night Of the 18th ; she sitting on
the gallery, when she heard crash she ran in and
stairs and hid herself under bed thinking that she
would escape she heard Mrs. Burgess screaming,
and soon after prisoner came up with candle and
pulled her out from under the bed telling her be was
going to kill her, at the same time drawing knife
upon her; witness exclaimed that she was not his
WIFE aud begged for her fe but prisoner struck her
and kicked her in the back. Witness thinking that
she was stabbed, into the next room and begged
Robb pursued her there, and was about abusing her
further, when the candle he had fell down and went
out and witness escaped down stairs and out of the
alley, crying " save me! save mev' She was given
Mrs. Florence Robb, wife Of the prisoner, testified
that she and the other ladies were sitting on the gal
lery when her husband came into the house and
broke rocking chair, and came out saying that he
was after her and when be said 3d. she told him that
she would not go with him, as she had positively
refused to go with him that morning that at dinner
time that day, she was seated at the table getting
dinner and Mr. Robb came in and Selling q steel
jumped over the table after her. She up stairs,
| where she was pursued by her husband, who caught
| hold of her and dragged her down stairs, bruisng
her. When in the alley she screamed murder" and
he placed bis hand over her mouth to prevent her;
that he dragged her out into the street and attempted
to drag her like dog to Mrs. Vogels boarding house.
She was beat and bruised up terribly.
Mrs. Robbs little sister testified to the fact that
kobb came there in the evening of the 18th, and
drawing knife stabbed her twice, once on the
shoulder, and twice in the back that he beat bis
wife, Cher sster) and smashed the furniture gener.
ally She did not see him set fire to the bed. but she
saw The place and heard her sister say that she had
The prisoner, by permission of the Court made his
statement, follows That he had taken his wife to
board at the house of Mrs. Burgess and staid there
| until he heard vague runners about Mrs. Martins
character and he took his wife away. That unwil-
| ling to believe the things he had heard about the
house when he returned from Shreveport, he placed
his wife, at her request, there and then went away.
1 When he came back he found his wife had suddenly
| grown cold, and he questioned her and found that
1 she was much estranged. He heard rumors about
the house, and taking his wife away to Mrs. Vogels,
he heard the rumors confirmed He had left some Of
his wifes things at Mrs. Burgess, and he went for
them, but she refused to give them to anybody but
his wife, He asked her to 60 for them, but she went
and returned without them. While at Mrs. Burgess
his wife had been enced into drinking and had got
drunk and had lain in her room with portions of her
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the women were planning to ruin his wife and make
her lose her virtue and debase her incinations He
\ again sent bis wife for her clothes, and when he
found that she had not returned he went after her
and astonshed to find her sitting at Mrs Burgess
table, next to DR.. Chase. Chase jumped up soon
as he saw him, and ran down stairs, and he told his
wife to come home with him, with her sister. She
said she would not come, and not willing to her
Burgess caught hold of her and tried to pull her back
He was trying to take her home, when gentlemen in
the street advised him not to bother with her any
more, and he left her. She went back to Mrs. Bur
gess and he went to look for the Chief of Police,
whom be could not find, and then to the Mayor and
the Second Justice of the Peace, but was unsuccess
ful in procuring legal means for her recovery. At
night he went back to Mrs Burgess for the purpose
Of again enteatng her to come and found her seated
on the gallery witt DR.. Chase. He and Chase had
struggle, and the women and folks generally scamp
cred through the paror, overturning and breaking
tho furniture He never saw the little girl at all
and for setting fire to the house, he had merely said
that he would rather see the house burn down thar
see h's "iie REMAIN al s'
j This statement not justiyiDg Robb's conduct, az
shown BY the witnesses, the Recorder committed
him for trial before the First District Court on the
three separate charges Of assaultng with intent te
kill Amanda Burgess and Helen Martin, and assault
and battery upon his wife, with threats. And in de
fault Of bail be was remanded to prison.
THE ST. CrARr,rs AND sr. Iou,s HOTELS ar,
ma,inr oreat nrenarat;ona for the coming winte
4 rnsb We went ali thr.noh both fev days since
and we're surprised Al the nature and extent Of th,
| renovations in nroeress.
In tho har-room Of the 81. Charles we found new
aoor na;nted az Of vore in the tesseated stvle TN
stairs and in all parts of the abvrinthine building
wa fonnd na;nters. naner.banpers carnenters cahi
net.makers and nnholsterera and oas.ftters in fac
a nerieet multitude of workmen AZ husv and Al
crowaed as bees in a hive. The hotel ia not closed
and there il annie accommodation for the boarder
without nolestation Of the workmep.
The great dining saloon. with its newly PAINTED
walls and calling and waYed Aoor looked exonis
4 itelv beautiful. 4 new stairway from thu upne
stories. enabling ladies' to reach the dining saloo
without crossing the rounda al heretofore il prea
4 imnrovement We have never seen ANYTHING 4
surpass the new paperipe of the passages and stat,
Il caaes and eome of tho rooms I'm the nassaoes a