New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-15
NUMBER 19I.

always had bed and a place at the table when
ever he wanted it, at their houses; that they gave
him money whenever he wanted it, and were both
able and willing to support him whenever he
needed it. OF his alleged bad doings in other
places they knew nothing. The examination was
lengthy and novel. Numerous mutes were in
Court, simply as spectators, and their excited
fingertalk and grimaeing was diverting enough.
They all seemed to consider Seward a great scoun-
drel, who ought to be put out of the way. But as
they failed to make him out vagrant, the Re-
corder discharged him, and he went his way re-
joicing
ALLEGED PoIsoNING AFFAR.--On Saturday af-
| ternoon negro woman named Emeline, belong
ing to Robert Ailen who resides ON ST. Paul street.
between Gravier and Perdido streets, was arrested
1 at the request of her master, who charged her
| with poisoning his wife. We learn that Mrs. Allen
was recovering in the evening from an illness
4 which attacked her about noon, and which she at
| trbuted to some deleterious or poisonous matter
| being put into coffee which she drank about Ii
o'clock in the forenoon. The woman Emeline
says in effect that her mistress partook Of coffee at
\ breakfast and then went to market She came
home, and again left to go to some store down
| town. When she came back she drank some more
| coffee. About an hour after Mrs. Allen said she
| felt bad, and soon after she became worse, and
said that something must have been put in the cof
fee, and that it affected her. The suspicion of poi
son was then aroused, as she (Emeline) had some
quarrel with her mistress recently, and il was sup
posed that she might have sought revenge by ad
ministerng poison to her mistress. She asserts
however, (with what truth we cannot say) that she
drank cup Of the coffee which affected her mis-
| tress, and nothing unusual has happened to her.
The affair has thus far been developed, but what
| there is in it we do not pretend to say. This wo-
man Emene has lived about eight years with her
present master. Recorder Emerson will look into
the matter soon.
vouDoU DANCE Broken Up.-The First District
police on Friday night made descent upon a
crib on Grayier street, in which they found six
negro women in state Of perfect nudity, dancing
obsceney and mutterng unintelligible incantations
| aroand caIdron in which some kind of hell-broth
was brewing. Few people have an idea how ex-
tensively this belief in the youdou heathenism
pervades our colored population and the more ig-
norant and superstitious part of the white popua-
ton. The officers made the wenches dress them
selves, and then took them to the lookup. Their
names are Elizabeth Clark, Alice de France, Julia
Payne, Kate Jett and Emma Taylor, free women
of color, and Jane, slave, belonging to Mr.. Le-
yasseur. Recorder Emerson will ask them some
questions relative to the revolving orgy in which
| they were engaged.
| CUTTING, SHOOTING, ETC.-On Saturday evening
Officer Mcdonald arrested Bill Daley and Mike
Mcnamara for fighting in a coffee-house at the
corner of St. Mary's Market and New Levee streets
Some time after they were in the lookup, Officer
Kerns the turnkey, discovered that Daley was
IaJ Jl,r hal in tba bonlr had lnat ch
blood. He was at once sent to the Charity Hos
pital Yesterday morning Barney Fox gave in
formation that Frank Garrity did the stabbing.
Garrity was soon arrested and Fox was detained
as witness. As Daley did not complain of his
wound, it is not likely he is dangerously hurt.
At halfpast one o'clock, yesterday morning
Sergeant Read found man named John Dinnie
lying on the banquette in front of his residence or
Deord street, between Magazine and Foucher,
dangerously stabbed twice in the left side, near
the heart. He removed the man to Charity Hos
pital. Dinnies story was that as he was standing
at the entrance of his alleyway three men,
strangers to him, came along from the direction Of
the river, and suddenly assaulted him without
provocation, one of them striking him several
blows with a slungshot and another stabbing
him. He had no idea who they were or why they
fell upon him.
Officer Willis reports that late on Saturday night
as man named Thomas was walking along Wash
| ington avenue near Anuncaton street, some man
unknown to him shot at him without cause, and
wounded him in the right thigh; painful but not
dangerous wound.
Another report is that Thomas was in the pro.
cession of the Bell and Everett Union club, and
that he was accidentally shot by the careless hand
ling of pistol by one of his friends Still another
report was, that he was shot by some one outside
the procession, who ran. We were not able te
obtain confirmation of any of these reports, so We
give them just as we hear them.
Sergeant Hager reports that at late hour the
same night, Henry Scott had one of his ankles
broken in fight which occurred at the corner Of
Tchoupitoulas and St. Mary Streets
DRowsED.-Corporal Kingman reports that al
ten o'clock on Saturday night, an unknown white
man fell into the river at the foot of esseps street
and was drowned.
ALLEGED CASE OF HyDRoPHoBIA.-Michael Cum.
mings, residing on Louisiana Avenue, driver on
one Of the horse cars, was bitten fonr days ago by
his dog. On Friday he gave signs of suffering and
great depression of spirits, and Saturday he haf
all the symptoms of dydrophoba, refusing to sleep
eat or drink. II was found impossible to get him
in his bed and he was confined to his room in the
custody of two men.
| AcCIDENT.-A man named John Hewes fell on
Saturday afternoon from the upper part of q build,
ing on Front Levee street, Second District and was
very seriously injured. Officer Boulosa had him
carried 10 the Charity Hospital, and made report
on the police books.
LARcENIEs. - Herman Albers was arrested on
Saturday evening, charged by John Lynn with
having stolen lot of blocks, ropes, ETC.. from the
wreck Of the schooner Laura, in the lake.
4 James Smith was arrested on the charge of hay
ing stolen lot of boots from the store of Thomas
Conley, No. Poydras street.
Thomas Quinn was arrested for stealing sacl
of onions from the steamboat landing; and Franl
Reynolds was arrested on the charge of havn,
stolen Denis Lynchs hat and licked him besides.
ALL SGrrLED.-Louis Donneux, who was charge,
by Albert Griebe with knocking him down an,
robbing him of SIS, aud who retailiated by sayin,
that the money was his own, and part OF $50 stolei
from him by Griebe. was dismissed on Saturday b,
Recorder Blacbe, at the request of the prosecutor
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