New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-17
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EXAMINATION or DIR. W. II. PEcK ROE THE
KILLrsG or CHARLES N. HARRIs.-This examina-
ton began yesterday before Recorder Summers.
Pr. Peck. the prisoner, was defended by Gen.
Miles and Mr.. Randell Hunt. Mr.. Van Dalson APP
peared for the prosecution. The standing Of both
the deceased and the accused, and their wide ac- |
quaintanceship, caused the Court to be crowded |
with such an assemblage Of gentility as IS seldom
to be seen there.
Mr. W. H. Martin, lately clerk Of the steamer /
Kate Frisbee gave his testimony, the same III sub
stance as that given before the Coroner, which I
was, that whilst Harris was settling his bill with
the clerk Of the st. Charles Hotel, Peck came up /
and spoke to him; that Harris said he was not pre-
pared for difficulty, but was not afraid, and that
Peck drew his pistol and fred first.
The facts AZ u the beginning Of the fight testt- I
fed TO BY Mr. Martin, were correlated IN the main
by Mr. Maine, the clerk with whom the deceased /
was settling at the time, and BY Mr. Hdreth, les
see Of the hotel, who was in the Office at the time
Mr.. Maine, seeing that serious difficulty was
about to commence, leftthe desk, and saw nothing
Of the shooting. Mr.. HIdreth saw Peck put his |
hand to his breast and throw that arm toward Har
ris, and at the same time heard the report Of |
pistol; did not see the pistol, as Peck stood |
in Peck's hand, from the motion he made. Ininle
diately afterward, another shot followed, and sew
eral others; witness did not we Harris when the
firing commenced, or whilst it lasted.
Mr.. Vim. Carr, an employe Of the hotel, gave
testimony to show that Harris was about TO leave
the hotel and that he had had some talk with Br.
Maine about sending Harris baggage to the Jack
son Railroad Depot.
| The witnesses were searchingIy cross-qnestioned
| by Mr.. Hunt. With the testimony Of the above
four, the examination closed to be resumed to-day,
there being twenty eight other witnesses on the
/ list
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II OF RosE.-This case was to have been examined
before Recorder Summers last evening, but the
case of Peck, for the killing Of Harris having OBJ
tanned priority, that of Israel postponed to the
9th inst. BAT
MoRTUARY.-The Board Of Health report I3lFas
the total number OF interments in the city Gene
teries last week.
As UsuAL.-The alarm Of fire at halfpast nine
o'clock last night caused by the starting of q
fire in Herwig's cofee-g grinding mill, at No. lao
Poydras street. The fire was put out before much
damage was DONE This is not the first time, by
several, that Herwig's coffee mills have caught
sale coffee grinding superinduces spontaneous com
bustion, or that Herwig is followed by some de
voted incendary who intends to ruin him by fire o.
III die.
, Cor OFF FCHEArLY.- Simmons, the medicals lstnden
who raised row in the Atnphitheater on Saturday
and tried to shoot the officers and Cloud and Nor
rson, the other two students who went to his res
cue were before Recorder Summers yesterday
That magistrate let them Off with fine of s25 each
LIFE AT THE ST. CHARLES HorEL.-The recent
wild shooting in and around the st. Charles Hotel
and the tragedy of Friday. are familiar enough to
the public. OF course, the crowds Of people stop
{ ping there were acquainted with the excitement,
, | and were properly nervous afterward
- Night before last, some rascal Of fellow
dropped lot of tnrpedoes on the floor in the
hotel, where the crowds were in the habit of walk
ing and standing around. One man tread upon
one of the combustibIes: It popped, and he
8 II iumning created n stir and
one else stepped on another torpedo. panic fol-
lowed. Gentlemen squatted around and lodged
behind pillars, and got out OF the way generally.
The special officer brought ont from New York
by the lessees, to stay about the Hotel and keep
things straight had that day, in consequence Of
the supert1uity Of flying bullets on the previous
days. packed up his baggage and started back to
the North via the Jackson Railroad. He being
absent, some one sent for the city police, and
special officers Jsard and Boyan went there flying.
] They found no dead. They found no wounded.
who had stampeded, had begun to smell the sell.
and knew nothing. But in good time the joke
J leaked out.
We hope we shall have nothing further to note
either tragic Or comic at the st. Charles.
NOVEL LAW su1T-Ihe= Orphans after a Halter.
NTH a Sharp Sick.--A novel and interesting law
suit is now progressing in the Sixth District Court.
. The plaintiff is the St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum,
and the defendant is A. Magnier, proprietor Of the
hat store on ST. Charles street. under the Amphi-
| theater.
From the papers on file and the testimony taken,
the following appears to be the state Of the case
In April OF last year. the principal hatters Of the
First and Second districts covenanted among them
selves to close their stores on Sundays. The arti-
cles of agreement were regularly drawn up on
parchment, with this clincher of provision, that
! whoever should violate the compact, should for
each ofense forfeit the sum of 500 to be appropri
ated to the St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum. This
document was signed by A. Magnier, the defend
ant here involved, by Johnston Il Turner, e. T..
1 hYha A AIhprt Rnulf Onyv-
. son & Co., and LIE Ronde Co., all heavy dealers
; in hats, as the public will at once recognize.
Lately comes into Court the ST. Joseph Orphan
t Asylum and through Dnrant u Hornor, represents
that, under the provisions Of the compact above
described A. Magnier is justly and truly indebted
to said Asylum in the sum of 5000 for this that il
violation Of said compact with his fellow-hatters
: said Magnier did, on six separate Sundays, keel
r open his store st. Charles street and did dis
play, expose, exhibit, offer, and SELL the same a,
on any other day Of the week, his hats.
And now, through Field y Blocker, comes Mag
' aier the defendant, and gives for answer this
= that the Orphan Asylum is not party to the com
: pact; that defendant signed said compact with ths
= full understanding that all other hatters were te
sign it and that seeing his nearest opponent Ii
. trade (the halter the other side of st: Charles
II street, near Yannuchi's Musenm1 kept his stort
. open on Sundays as usual he did not feel the com
= pact binding, and 50 continued to keep his stor
l, open on Sunday, as befoie.
All the matters in town. or at least all in any wa
% concerned in this business, have been examined
and some Of the proceedings have been quite racy
=. The arguments are in progress. Col. Field argue
lie for defendant few days since, and Mr. Blocker
d to close for the defense to-day.
It is believed the fight will end in the fur flynn
4 at the expense of Mr.. Magnier; but he keeps o
at his hating cool in the reflection that if the ba
e tie goes against him. the Supreme Court is left 70
Id a final resort.
q The case is one of universal interest, as all me
y patronize the hatters, and at the same time hav
le sympathy for the orphan. Some think that th
if prosecution smacks Of puritanical design to site
I'd In the wedge for a Sunday law in this city; BIT
:. none who know any of the hatters concerned wi
= believe such thing for moment. All the ha
y tiers wanted was one day out of the seven for
ry little relaxation from their tresome occupation.
REcoRDER LONG TO MAYOR WTrHERs AGAI.
. | Jean Marie Lopet, miserable looking vagran
le was arrested coming of the Mobile mail boat We
IN terday morning, ON the arrival Of the boat fro
he Mobile Jean told Recorder Long that May
so Wthers, of Mobile, had paid hispassage and sci
I, him over. The Recorder at once furnished mont
la to pay his passage back; and requesting him
er present his compliments to Mayor Withers, and
ed | tell him that New Orleans had yagrants enough
N her own to enable her to dispense with contrib
y tions from Mobile, put him in charge Of an offic
er and sent him back to the mail boat. Sometime a
of the Recorder ordered woman to be refunded
as Mobile under similar circumstances; but the W
II man gave the officer the slip at the lake, did mt
~ and the Mobiians called it 'sa good joke on Schn
DER" This time the Recorder took measures
render it quite certain that there shall not
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