New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-29
MONDAY MORNING. AUGUST 2g

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" MORNING, AUGUST
husbands discharge. He meantime had dressed and
come down to go away with her. BE sat down by the
gate and waited, not being permitted to leave At
about noon, Dr. Chopin arrived in his buggy, and
finding the patient ready to 60, asked Mr.. Lombard
the Deputy Clerk, for his discharge. Mr. L. decline d,
saying he had orders not to do so Dr. c. then "a Id
there was no authority for detaining patients in the
hospital, or something to that effect and told the
man to leave. Mr.. L. said be would have to notify
DR.. Foster Of the fact DR.. G. replied that that was
right, and that he would wait until the message was
delivered. The patient being released by DR.. Chop
pn started down street.
In a moment DR.. Foster came to the Office and
sharply reprimanded Mr.. Lombard for allowing the
patient to depart against his ORDERS Dr. Foster then
stepped to the gate, and began looking in peculiar
manner at DR.. Chopin, who stood near his buggy,
some six Or eight feet from him. As near as th g
witnesses could remember the scene which followed
was this: Said Chopin to Foster, Are you look.
ing at me, sr!' Foster replied, Yes, am look
ing at you.' Well, what do you think Of me ~
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their weapons simultaneously; Fosters being SELF
cooking fveshooter, and Choppin's q derringer.
Foster fired first wounding Chopin in the left
side Of the neck; this diverted Choppins shot with
bis derringer, and wounded himself in the left
hand; at the same time be staggered back some
feet; Foster fired second time, wounding Chop
pin in the side; the latter rallied, drew second
derrnger, fred at Foster, and again missed him /;
Foster fired third shot with his revolver, and
missed Chopin then drew bowieknife from his
coat pocket and advanced upon Foster, calling upon
him to fire again; Foster backed of, keeping Chop
pin covered with his pistol, and warning him that he
would be killed if he came too near. At this juno.
ture, the students and Others rushed between the
combatants and put an end to the affair.
Dr.. Mercier, who came up just as the affair was
over, examined Choppn's wounds, and dressed them.
The one in the neck grazed the ugular vein and the
one in the side grazed the ntestines; both danger
ous wounds, but not necessarily mortal. Two hours
aerward, Dr. Chopin was carried on litter to his
residence, No. 160 Canal street.
Officer Dean went to the Hospital and arrested DR..
Foster, who was taken to the Parish Prison. DR..
Mercier, upon being applied to for certificate as to
DR.. Chopin being out of danger, stated that he
would not be able to give such certificate for a
week or eight days, as there was possibility Of the
wounds infaming. .~.s4@
A Young MAN, whose name we did not learn, died
at his residence on Liberty street, on Saturday night
The story is, that he had violent attack of that
terrible complaint the painters colic that physi-
clan had prescribed for him and that several of his
friends who staid with him, undertook to doctor him
themselves. They gave him an injection of tobacco
stepped in water, upon which he was instantly seized
| with convulsions, and in half an hour was dead. So
the story goes, at any rate.
An ATTEMPT was made, during Friday night, to
procure smash on the Pontchartrain Railroad.
The early steam train of Saturday morning, when
between the Gentilly Ridge and the Marigny Canal,
ran over stick of wood, which, happening to, be
rotten, did not give the cars even jolt. The engi
neer just had time to that another log was ly ing
| across the track about hundred feet ahead and
succeeded in stopping the train before reaching it.
Beyond this were found three other logs or heav y
sticks of timber at equal distances Of hundred feet
apart the largest being about as thick as man "a
Leg and sixteen feet long. The timber was removed
and the train went ahead
That forenoon, officers Bray and Carroll were sent
down the road to investigate the matter. On Friday
had been struck by the COW catcher Of the big
new locomotive, the Avery and one Of her legs cut
off. The officers found the poor animal standing in
the mud on three legs, near where the accident had
happened They found out from boy that the mare
| belonged to German named Balthazar Johum, liv.
ing on the Marigny Canal, short distance from the
railroad Q man who has large lot and makes his
living by selling honey there being nearly hundred
bee hives on the place. They next inspected the
different pieces Of timber which had been found on
the road and found the large piece to be very like
pile of similar logs lying not far from Johums place
Going to Johum's they found only Mrs. Johum at
home. They pretended to be only humanitarians,
hurt at seeing the poor mare still suffering from the
loss of her leg, and anxious to know why she not
killed, to end her misery. The woman for some time
persisted in denying that the mare belonged to either
her or husband but at last she admitted it was
theirs and stated that her husband had gone to the
horse-m market in town to buy another animal. Whilst
they were talking about it, Dutchman known by
the nick name of Schnoode came up in cart to ge
a load of wood, and be and Mrs. Johum conversed in
Dutch about the accident to the mare.
Mrs. J. talked violently about the Railroad Com
pany, and schnoodle sympathized with her. She
talked about revenge; he told her the way to get
even with the Company would be to get half q
dozen buckets Of soft SOAP and give the track good
soaping 'sfor that's the way used to serve them,
continued Schoodle, alludng to some real or imagi
nary exploits Of bis own, elsewhere. Mrs. Johum
said soft soap wouldn't do; she wanted something
that would damage the cars. This conversation
though in Dutch, was perfectly understood by Bray
and as Mrs. Johum never suspected Bray and Carol
to be officers she was unreseved in the expression o
her feeling. As they still very socitous about
the suffering OF the poor mare she assured them thai
the schinde (deaer in dead horses for their hides)
would soon be along and put the animal out OF its
misery The officers left lotered around the vicinity
some time, gave up waiting for Johum and returned
to town.
Early yesterday morning they went down again
accompanied by third officer, Ruiz. They sta
toned Ruiz as sentinel, at the back part
Of the lot and they went round to the front of the
house. They knocked and knocked, but received nc
answer. Whilst they waited, they heard Ruiz shout
Here he isl" They rushed round, and saw wild
Dutchman dashing through the grass from the
house, with nothing but his pants on, and his shir
across his arm. Being headed, he cussed and raved
and wanted to know what was wanted of him. The
officers told him they had come to inquire about that
mare. He swore the mare was not his; but tht
officers were so persistent in their questions, that hi
finally acknowledged himself owner Of the animal
The officers then displayed their authority, ant
brought him in. On the way, Johum talked loudly
and bitterly about the Railroad Company. Tha
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