New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-24

barrels discharged At the same moment he asked
witness for q couple Of dollars to get carriage
and go down to Mr.. Prats's residence. Then
witness gave him two dollars and he went and got
q carriage. He did not come back till yesterday
morning at o'clock, when he came in and rang
the bell. Witness came out on the gallery and
asked who was there. Ramos said, come down,
John, and give me my revolver."." Witness came
down and opened the door and gave Ramos the re-
yover Ramos said, "John let's have drink"
and he called in the cab driver also. After drink
ing, Ramos shook hands with witness, and said,
good by, am now going to report what did
last night. Ramos shook hands with witness again,
and said, perhaps you will not see me any more -
the revolver was middle sized one, loaded with
| round, not comic balls: witness is nephew OF
Prats, but has not spoken to him for two years,
having had difficulty with him and left his house,
| and gone across the street to work.
| p. Prats, being recalled gave important test-
| mony, outside Of what he first testified to- The
reason he did not give his testimony in full at first
was that he only gave answers to questions asked.
On this occasion, officer Boullosa acting interpre
ter he testified that after the two shots fred
Ramos came and asked him where was the other
man. Mr.. Ramos said afterwards / am LOST He
told Ramos that the man had gone away. Ramos
this man." Witness said 81 am sorry that you
have done SO, for you are a man of family and
the man who was killed was id rascal.
After the coffee-honse was shut witness went
home; Ramos having gone away previously,
About ten minutes after he shut the house he saw
two men looking about with a light in Crossman
street-looking around as if searching for some
thing about the scafolding. When he got home
he saw a man opposite to his door, and soon
recognized him as Ramos, as he spoke to him
this was about quarter before nine O'Clock
Ramos then asked him to try and do all he could to
save him from the scrape he was in. Witness said
that he would do all he could without compromising
himself. The next morning he left his house abou
five O'Clock, and when he went home at nigh
his wife said that Ramos had called in the morning
shortly after witness had left and had inquired 70
him. His wife told him to go to the coffee house
!. and he would find him there. Witness being show
i the double-barreled pistol which was picked W
said that it was not the one which the small man
2 rs coffeehouse had. When witness said to tn
3 wv, w. zen who ran after deceased, 'Look out h
z - -tol in his hand,'' these men were abou
4 after the deet.ssd
= Inc ,oiio"ins ..erdict was rendered; ''Deat
. caused by pistol s-ot wound in the hack. sal
o. pistol peheVea 10 nave DIN in the hands of one
- Ramos" Ramos had not bon arrost cd ~, IN 10,
:. evening.
,e DISCHARGE OF FORBES, LOCKWOOD Avn srpox,
r. These three men, accused of the recoat ottemnt
IN kill Daniel Barry, mate of the ship Mary rsmmo,
no by shooting and cutting, were arraigned befo,
e, Recorder Long for examination on Saturds,
he Barry, who had previously called upon the r
mr. corder and begged to be excused from prosecutn
Of the ground that he could not swear to the ide
II tity of those who wounded him, and did not wi
ID to prosecute them even if he did know them,
a this occasion swore that he could not identify t
accused, twho were confronted with him,) as t
~ parties who had assaied him. His declaration,
9 affidavit, taken by the Recorder from him viii
he was critically ill at the Hospital he denied
- recollection of. OF the six witnesses summone
o. e, four appeared and these knew nothing whatev
:, of the matter. The accused were therefore d
- =. charged.
cd DEAD-Wm McDonough, who was stabbed
he few evenings since at the Fulton exchange,
Ia Brown, alias Roberts, died at Charity Hospital
nd Saturday. Of his six seven wounds, one in Il
Al. right side caused death, as was shown upon L
nd post-mortem examination. The investigation in
M the circumstances of the affair put off till
be day in order to have up all the witnesses possib
an Roberts is in prison hiding his time.