New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-06-29
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19laI SMfuIgfHle.
AN INGENIOUS SwIEDLE was performed On Mon
day. at the expense OF Mexican woman residing on
st. Philip street. by some rascal who has not yet beer
arrested. He went to her with thirteen bezes o.
cigars, two bundles Of six boxes eaeh and an extra
box, which be had open, and which was filled with
good cigars, as sample Of what the other boxes
contained. He represented that he was short 81
money, and would leave the twelve boxes with her on
deposit for loan Of s35; be having large lot of other
cigars in the Customhouse as he said which he
could not take out till be paid the duty. The woman
gave him the s35, and he left. Not returning at the
time he promised, her suspicious were aroused; and
opening the cigar boxes she found that every one
of the twelve was nicely filled with straw, with just
enough fragments of brick in each to give 1t the
weight OF box Of cigars. The poor woman lugged
the whole of the trash down to Recorder Longs yes
terday, to make her complaint; but being told that
she would have to go to Recorder Wtz she left the
boxes there, and went off heartbroken in search OF
the lastnamed Recorder.
A DESPERATE DARKEY appears to be the slave
George, belonging to Mr.. N. @. Hail. We YESTERDAY
mentioned his arraignmeut before Recorder Long
on charge of having waylad Jean Marie Doncast,
white man, at the corner Of Craps and Hancock
streets, on Saturday night, and attempted to kill
him with brickbat and big pole. On Monday
evening George was released on bail, furnished BY
his MASTER At haltpast o'clock yesterday morn
ing, George took ladder and pitchfork to Dom
casts house; and with the ladder ascending to the
open window of the upstairs room in which Don.
cast slept, he entered the window and made a mur /.
derous attack on the sleeping man with bis pitch
fork. Doncast sprang up in time to defend himself,
and luckily received but two trifing wounds one in
the arm and one in the side besides receiving hard
blow with the handle of the weapon. As George
retreated from the room, he was seen by some per-
sons and arrested by Corporal sarpy. He had car.
ried off the ladder with him. but left his shoes behind
Yesterday George was sent to prison without further
privilege of BAIL George, who is fancy and very
saucy looking muatto, said Saturday last to some
persons that he would kill Doncast if he had to 90
to prison hundred times for his attempts that he
would still get out some day and then kill him if he
had to swing for it. His murderous desire he ac i.
counted for by saying that his wife was taken ber
ties with by Doncast one day. they were riding up
town together in cart. Before the Recorder. how
ever, he soernnly denied having ever attacked Dom
cast, the witnesses and other evidence to the con
trary Notwithstanding. Georges case will be settled
before Justice Barnett and jury of shareholders.
| THOMAS KING, a sailor boardinghouse runner was
drowned in the river near the Barracks on Monday
afternoon. He was in the act of boarding ship in
tow, from skif, when he lost his life. He leaves
family.
| FIRST DISTRICT CoURT-Jldge Hunt.-Jobn Leary
charged with larceny, was dismissed yesterday by
nolle prosequi.
Frederick Sunday was tried for embezzlement and
| found guilty.
The other cases were continued.
REcoRDER Srrvvrps, corpr Mor+;r uocu r..
Clark, John Welsh John Cummings, George Smith,
VIM. Wade, James Royan, Frank Deder and Pat
Smith, taken up in two hauls by the special police,
as dangerous aud suspicious characters were yester
day required to find vouchers or spend long terms in
the workhonse. No vouchers appearing, thew dis
appeared from public life.
Anthony May, for raising drunken hullaballoo on
Julia street, and carrying rock in his pocket, was
lined. Christopher Fox, for rough treatment of Anne
N. Frusher on Magazine street, between Edward and
Basin, was fined $5.
Charles Blanchard, whose arrest as a book. keeper
in the Bank OF Commerce, we mentioned last week,
was arralgned for examination on the charge of
breach OF trust and embezzlement preferred against
him by Emanuel Bessey, of No. % Poydras street.
The charge was that on the 10th July, 1856 (nearly
four years ago,) Blanchard, then in the employ Of
J. W. Beach g. Co., as book keeper, (Bessey being
a member OF the firm and the firm in liquidation
embezzed about $40 600 Of money belonging to the
firm, and absconded from the city and country. He
went to Havana on the schooner G. H. Montague and
scarcely arrived there when Mr. Blessey caught up
with him BY 1 steamer aud succeeded in getting back
from hm sioo5 Of the money. Blessey absence over
the lake at the time, and Blanchards standing as his
confidential book keeper, enabled him to consummate
the crime. The case was made out clearly and
strongly against him. and he sent before the First
District Court. The bail was fixed at $l5OO but
he was unable to furnish it, and had to 90 back to
prison.
Patrick McGee was sent before the First District
Court for assault with dangerous weapon, with in.
tent to murder, having stabbed Alexander Stephens
on Julia street. on the 18th inst Bail fixed at $1,000
Frederick Braasart charged with threatening to
whittle up his wife, Bertha, with razor, at No 1859
Poydras street, was discharged. Mrs. Margaret Man
ming charged with violently beating j. Lynch after be
had stabbed her husband on Monday night Lynch also
being stabbed at the time, likewise discharged
her attack being natural and excusabe.
| Frank Lechart and Catherine Bond, keepers of
stalls in Dryades Market, gave bail to answer the
| charges preferred against them by Mr.. Commits
sary Dalcourt Of obstructing the market with extra
benches and refusing to remove the same
Luke Feeney, charged with walloping Bridget
Prise at No. Foucher street. and B. G. Crenz
charged with knocking Mary w. Welsh down with
hatchet handle and dragging her by the hair in the
yard OF the ST. Vincent Asylum, corner of Race and
Magazine streets, were booked for hearing respect
| lively on the lst and I'd proXmo.
RECORDER W1LTz's CouRr.-A great crowd of
profgate females was up before Recorder Wiltz yes.
| terday, charged with being lewd and abandoned
vagrants. keepers of disordery houses etc. Seven.
teen of the number were required to pay SIS each
or spend month in the Work. House, Most of them
paid up the money, and departed, again to resume
| their inquitous ways.
John g. Clark and VIM. Burk, charged with lar.
ceny and with being dangerous and suspicious char
acters, were examined and dismissed for want of
| evidence.
The other business was unimportant.
RECORDER LoSG's CouRT.-John Darlington was
sent to prison to await examination, on charge of
having stolen pair of nice shoes from Edward Bell
harkeeper at the United States Hotel Bell caught
him in the act; and he, finding himself detected
ran and threw the shoes into the hotel privy.
Mrs Baker was held for hearing on charge of
breach of trust in failing to give up $40 gold piece
which Virginia Moch had left with her for safe.keep
ing, at her residence on Moreau street, between
| Peace and Frenchmen.
Victor Schwager, residing on Robertson street, was
sent after, charged by his wife Margaret with being
an habtual and ncorrigible drunkard, whose only
occupation was haunting tipplng houses and smash
ing the doors and furniture at home all this, too,
after she had forgiven him, upon former arragnments
before the Recorder.
John Mclaughlin was sent after, charged with in.
Sultinp and abuSinp the bOarders Mt Mrs Wilson'S