New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-07-06
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY q, 1860.

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j did not like to pass before them; 50 con
tnued down Laharpe street as far as Galvez. me
knife before me, if not the same that Renecke
used, ID one of the same make; his knife mad a
white handle, and had on the blade the words,
.Hunter's companion like this one here.
Crtss-examined-Th wife was where she could
see all that passed between her husband and ten
ecke, before he was stabbed. The hat before me
! identify as John Renecke's hat. ! do not know
that Renecke knew Mrs. Schwager before. dld
not hear Renecke's brother say anything, nor
did he take any part in the difficulty, TO my
Gerard Rodolphe Fsc7.n,aa, sworn--I am nine
years old; saw the knife and the hat lying toge'
ther ON the green, where the fight had taken place.
] did not pick them up called woman to come
and get them, and she did SO. did not see any
part of the fight
After hearing the above testimony, the jury rem
dered verdict Of murder against the boy John
Reneeke, and the Coroner made the proper aff
davt before Recorder Long. .@
JUST TO THINK or IT!-That Joe Davis, the
sailor clearinghouse keeper, who disappeared so
mysteriously last week, and whose naked and
bullet-perforated body was found in the river and
buried on the bank by some oystermem and whose
wife and friends went down, dug the body up, |
identified it and came back to town and prepared
for "real fun" (anagram of "funeral') just to
think we say, that this drowned, stripped, robbed,
buetridded, murdered, killed, and generally
dead-and buried Joe Davis should celebrate his
Fourth of July by walking into his own house,
hale hearty alive, kicking and otherwise not dead
vet, and asking his wife what all the row was
about.
Comical or otherwise, as people and Mrs. Davis
may take it, the thing is fact, sober and actual.
What is the use of a reporter reporting, and re-
porting things as the truth, when mistake or sell
like this can be gotten Off When prostitute and
a few loafers can sell the police, and the police
sell the telegraph, and the police and the telegraph
together sell the reporters, and the reporters, in
their turn, are compelled to sell all New Orleans
/ and the rest of maEkindEn -
! We have not much to offer in solution. Story
| No is, that Davis went down drunk, had fight
] in the boat with johnny Wright, during which he
was secured by the others, and his pistol fired oil
| to prevent his doing harm and the empty pistol
and his $500 watch and a $40 gold piece, given to
i Johnny Wright, who, quitting the boat in conse-
quenee of the fight, kindly consented to carry the
| articles back to Mrs. Davis for safe keeping, did
deliver the empty pistol but sloped with the watch
and money and that Davis went on with his friends
and finished his drunk at bis place, or wigwam,"
as it is called, somewhere down the river.
4 Story No. q by one of the friends who went
down to dig up and look at the dead body, is, that
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i that all got deadly sick, and had not stomach to
look at it; that he, after "heaying JONAH" got a
nigger to wash the mud off the face, enough for
him to see that it wasn't Davis face, though it had
i one of the alleged bullet holes in it that some
gray human hair was found on the bank, and coat
with velvet collar found and nailed to tree;
that neither Mrs. Davis nor anybody else identified
the body as Joe Davis body and that whoever
told the police, or the telegraph the reporters
that any of them had identified the body, told a
id lie, and he will tell him of it, whenever lie
meets him.
[Mem-This story y-teller HASN'T been bored any
by his friends, since the expedition; that is, MOI
more than great deal.l
! Story No. is, that the whole affair was wicked
and malicious sell, deliberately planned, hatched
} and carried ont by lot of sailor runners and
others, who had nothing else to do, and always
study devilment when idle.
Two facts (or alleged facts for we are afraid tC
/ be certain of anything now however, remain
$ Johnny Wright sloped with Joe Davis watch ant
$ 1noney-and there is dead man with bullet il
, his head buried on the bank down the river. Herr
is plenty of mystery-a magnificent mystery-bu
Y we are afraid to follow it up. Another resurrec
ZIONIST party might go down the river and then thu
body might turn out to be that of Niger or hog
g This reporter wants no more Of the Joe Davis mys
terry, or the mystery which is still left behind.
: Johnny Wright, you have been telegraphed afte
5 as murderer. 0 Johnny Wright, come back
Well forgive you the breach of trust, since W
9 find you're not murderer.
Il Mr. Davis, 0 Joe Davis, dear Davis, immorts
a Lazarus No. ., do have the kindness to step up
!, the city telegraph office and look the reeor
n see what quivering of the wires, what flashir
d of messages, what clicking of the dial-needles an
4 what sell to this city and the surrounding cour
try generally has resulted from that Internal spre
T. OF yours
k p. S.-A gentleman temporarily residing dow
L the Coast, came up to the city on Tuesday nigh
e Having seen and talked to Joe Davis at Povert
Point, and finding the town all in horror at til
d murder of Joe Davis, he went around to a Reco
is der any number of policemen, and stopped Peopl
on the street, to tell them it was all a mistake. H
# was laughed at everywhere; and whenever he sc
y excited about it, the others would likewise e
. | warm, and haul out their VS. and KS and ask hii
/; to come up to the spots on it, This only mad
ID him madder and declaring that he wasno robbie
=, and that he believed everybody was crazy sui
o struck, he gave up the PRONUNCIATION of truth, an
ID went home sick He has had his triumph sine
Is however.
{. DROWNED IN THE RlrER,-James Thornton f. 4
I'd c.. native of Virginia, 10 years of age, residir
"a in Algiers, fell into the river day OF two snt
from his skif and was drowned. The body WI
of found yesterday, and the Coroner holding an i
10 quest, gave the appropriate verdict 1t will inte
u est the public to know that Thornton Il
ID slave and confidential ferryman of John McDonot
/" the noted negro whom McDonogh, at all seaso
ID of the year, had to row him back and forth aero
~ ~ the river in order to save his picaynnes from t
II regular ferryboats. And it was from the same
ed skiff ever since McDonogh's death the property
ne the emancipated Thornton, thatthe latter unlnek
I'd ID fell into his watery grave.
ID JusTIeE TO Coon oFFIoER.-A friend residi
i 4 in Jefferson City has furnished with the folio
ut ing item, which we publish with pleasure:
he The Council of Jefferson City, at its last me
ot ing, on Tuesday evening, passed a resolution 0
re propriating 500 to officer E. r. GheTalley, Co
" mssary of the Streets, ETC., for voluntary eX
to services rendered the City Of Jefferson. 7
~ =. Gopncil, in mincing or qualified phraseolot
to declared Mr.. Chevalley decidedly the best II
an most efficient officer in his department that I
m City had ever had. He had not confined his eff
" tive energies to the line of duty required or
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