New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-23
the victims OF the hellish plot are SO wen known
and esteemed, the excitement is naturally rery in

Inc Ficunfs VI INC heHish piot are so well known
and esteemed, the excitement is naturally rery in
tense.
FBAcAs BETWEEN AN EDITOR AND AN ACToR.--s5t.
Charles street ras thrown into great commo,ion,
at about o'clock yesterday afternoon, by meet
ing of fist and pistol between Mr.. COPELAND, an
actor at the Varieties Theater, and Mr.. Overall,
one of the editors of She True Delta.
As accurately as we could obtain them, the facts
were these: Mr.. Overall, in company with Mr.
Sothern, the actor, went into "Sam's', to get a
drink. COPELAND was standing at the counter.
Overall looked at him as he passed, then went on
with Sothern to drink, further down the counter.
COPELAND suddenly advanced upon Overall, seized
him BY the coat collar, struck him with his fist.
felled him, and commenced kicking him,
MIR. Sothern rushed in to seperate them, and Mr..
PHILIPPE Frechett, steward of the restaurant de-
partment, (the tall and handsome man with curly
hair, whom everybody knows by sight if not by
name) also rushed up. The steward, being a
powerful man, seized COPELAND and ierked him
away. Overall, who had only been endeavoring
to draw weapon, now got ont small revolver,
and began firing; firing the first shot just as he
began raising from the floor, the second shot when
he was half up, and the third and last shot when
fairly on his feet.
One Of the bullets hit the stewart in the 1eshy
part Of his right thigh, he being in range at the mo-
ment. Another bullet struck COPELAND in the right
leg below the knee; he stumbled at the moment,
then regaining his feet, retreated and escaped
through the back yard and over a fence, with the
bullet in his leg. Overals third bullet did no
harm. He was arrested, with his pistol in his
hand, and taken to to the First District Lookup.
overall's pistol was very small one, and the
bullets not larger than peas. The wound of the
steward, Frechett, was probed to some depth, but
the ball was not found it inflicted a painful but
not serious wound, and will probably never be
taken out. Mr.. COPELAND, after leaving the coffee
house, went to his lodgings.
The bullet had penetrated the top Of his boot
and glanced downward in the flesh and against the
bone 1t was extracted by physician, but the
course of the bullet, down the bone and muscle Of
the leg, was such as to render the wound very
painful and disabling one, which will require some
time to heal, if it ever heals perfectly.
After being in custody some time and no one ap-
pearing to make charge against him, MI. Overall
was released.
THE SHOW PEOPLE AGAiy-The show people of
st. Charles street are in trouble again. An old
man named Isaac A. Lathing was arraigned before
Recorder Summers to answer charges of stealing
and assault and battery Mr. Lathing, it seems, is
agent for the gigantic red.skin on exhibition in
Mrs. Elizabeth Benoit's Museum and claimed to be
agent also for the miniature lady known as the
Texas Dwarf. On Tuesday last he visited the place
for the purpose OF taking her away but she did not
wish to go, and his claim resisted also by Mrs
Benoit. From words they proceeded to blows,
and. according to the charge, Lathing struck Mrs
B. twice, but the actual result Of the scrimmageu
is said to have been sound thrashing inflicted
upon the old fellow by the puissant showwoman,
from whose clutches he was rescued by the over
grown Aboriginee. The latter became greatly ex-
cited by the tragical and disastrous aspect Of the
affair, and for the purpose probably of airing his
emotions gave a gratis exhibition Of himself upon
the sidewalk outside In the meantime, Madame
BIS ticket-seer had put the little lady of Texas
into a cab, and driven her off out of harms way,
and Lathing, discovering her absence, went to her
room and conveyed away her trunk, portrait and
clothing. He now stands charged by Mrs Benoit
with assault and battery, and by the little lady,
Rehecca Langley, with larceny, and was required
to give bail for his appearance the 29th for ex-
animation.
SAD RESULT OF A SAD ACCIDENT. We men
toned few days ago the circumstance of young
man named McPeak Ga clerk at G. L. Kouns &
Brothers house on Front Leyee streeD accident
ally.shooting his young brother in the head. The
poor boy died yesterday. The distress of the
elder brother may be better imagined than de-
scribed