New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-03
NUMBER sO9.

osoi. No. salu, Damn piesyune bcttfBu; bet
me sooo of noshing." No. searched his pockets
looked over ms papers, was at fault. and aid y
meshs, ~ s.ay mere with my friend, till 20
ahu arAm, aha ~ Des back in ten minutes y with
wh'ch nc "ehs. 40. : entertained Mr. Meeks with
general town talk, all the time feenc i, HI asss
ent pockets, and looking over aI he drar, sartt
At last he said, Damn me, II dont
little too fast haven't got five Eundred t,v
siderable, but thought had. But Jcar b,,ra..
4 1t Of friend around here on the H. II straat
wait for five minutes. Ill be back lust as uoon
your friend, and you see if / don't skin him, rfa
4 went. Mr.. Meeks sat on the stems and yvas4as |
/ He waited and waited.
But at length good Samaritan came along He |
was gentleman Of smiling countenance and ana.
bic manners 1t was no less person than No. q 4
Discovering considerable doubt and some distress
4 in the countenance Of Mr. Meeks he stopped and
4 asked him what the matter was Mr. Meeks said
something about two men that he believed had
cheated him out Of 500. No. 0 asked for descrip-
tons. Mr. Meeks gave them. No. was thunder
struck. He stated that the two men were the rnost
notorious robbers and eutrthroats i'd town; that
they had got him on the string beautifully and
that if they came back and found him there they
would have tho rest of his money, or cut his
throat; that being lonesome and Godforsaken
part Of town, where robberies and murders were
perpetrated with impunity every day and every
night
Mr.. Meek5 stood not upon the order OF his going.
He regularly dusted.' Some of his actual friends
found him leaning against post near the st.
Charles Hotel weeping and sobbing as quietly and
4 proudly as any schoolboy; and got from him the
above story.
The police are sharply on the watch for all the
confidence men, mentioned in the above two
cases.
| INQUEST IN THE PorsoyISG CAsE.-The inqnest
into the poisoning of Miss 0'ReiIIy alleged to have
| been done by her lover, Joseph Galceran, was re-
sumed last evening before Coroner Beach. The
following witnesses were examined:
Mrs. Della 1iagere-I am sister of the doceas-
| ed, Eleanora NJ. Reilly. Iwent to the house be-
tween and o'clock in the morning, after her
death. Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Milligan were there
| when arrived. / heard no one make any remarks
about the cause of her death. One Of them merely
remarked that she had died quietly. Inoticed a
few small spots on the floor, which locked if she
might have been throwing up, the spots looking as
about her having had purgng she did not say she
had been vomiting nor did she say she heard any
thing of the kind before she got up; she said she
got up because sho heard her breathing hard and
said she was very ill. Did not hear Mrs. Murphy
or Mrs. Ailligan say that eating guni-drops had
killed her; never heard any one say anything Of
| that kind. Galceran was not at the house when
arrived. He came about an hour afterwards. He
appeared to be much troubled; | shook hands with
him, and his hands felt cold and clammy. did
not hear him asked to go and see the body;
he did not seem to wish to see ii. He istaid
there couple of hours, l think till the day was
| quite light. He went out with my husband and
brother: before he left, he in the front ROOM
in company with my husband. ! was not there
when they returned; not being well, went to a
| neighbors and laid down. The next time saw
Gaeeran was at 10 o'clock in the morning in the
school-room; not the room my sister was then in.
He staid there till the bedy was brought down
stairs; this was but short time a few minutes
after he arrived. He was standing in the school
| room when the body was brought down. My sis
| ter's face was covered with sheet. Galceran,
| who was standing at O window with ME, strained
his neck to get look at the body he did not ap-
| proach it or move from his position. He appeared
distressed as the body passed; he did not follow
| it into the front room. | went after It, He left
about then: asked him if he would stay; he said
he could not, as he had business to attend to down
town. did not see him again till 10 O'Clock that
night; had been there in the house all day. He
might have been there when i wss at dinner at
Mrs. Phillips, but did not or hear him. When
saw him at night, twas in the hall; he came in at
the back way; had no conversation with him at
that time He did not go in to see my sisters body
| till between and O'Clock next morning had
asked him at night if he did not wish to go in and
see the body; he said, no, there were too many
people in the room, but he would 90 in next morn
|
there was but one person there. l went in with
| him. He did not stay there that night; he went
| away and returned in the morning. When he did go
in think asked him to do so. He went ND to the
corpse and gazed att awhile, without speaking; he
cried and went into the kitchen crying L think he
cried about three-quarters of an hour. did not
think he cried from remorse; tseemed like genuine
sorrow. He did not look at the corpse afterwards
| He helped to carry the coffin out, after it was
closed. He said nothing to me afterwards about
being married to my sister, or anything of the kind
Before she died, did hear that they were to be
married the Wednesday following her death
who told me this, cannot recollect On the morn
ing Galceran was arrested, he told me that he and
/ my sister were to have been married 1 heard
nothing that | can recollect, about their going to
| Cuba after marriage; but he told me they were to
| have left the CITY, This was at my house !; he came
| there with my husband. My husband told me
something about my sister being in the family way
/ do not recollect the conversation exactly. had
/ known Galceran about ten years; / saw him but
/ seldom. My sister never said anything to me
about marrying Galceran. had no talk with Gal
| ceran about his having my sisters money: be-
/ lieye she ought to have money saved. Mother
| told me she found Gaceran's note to my sister.
The last time saw my sister alive was on Christ
mas day.. She had been sick for a long time; |
| saw no change in her. Only went there to invite
/ her to a Christmas dinner; she did not go, saying
| she was not well; but mother went did not
think my sisters refusal had anything singular for
/ she had been unwell some time.
Dir. j. ]. Meighan-I knew Miss O'Reily, the
deceased, eight or ten years. 4 lost sight of them
j some three years. The acquaintance was renewed
| when her mother brought her to me, two months
i or more ago. Her mother told me her daughter
i was sick and wanted to prescribe for her.
This was in my drug store on Annuncation street.
Miss 0'Reily beckoned to her mother to go off, and
/ her mother went to the door. The daughter told
me that she had lost her appetite and was in bad
health; she did not state what allied her particu-
/ larly, neither did | examine her that time pre-
i scribed mild tonic for her. She visited me seven
| or eight times. The second time she came, took
i her back and examined her; found she was with
/ child and told her so. She said she had been to
j several DOCTORS but was the first who had the
courage to tell her her situation. She appeared to
| be much surprised, exclaiming, my God, can it
| be possible convinced her of her condition.
| The first time she came, she asked me for some-
thing to bring on her changes. On her second
visit, when told her what allied her, she wanted
| to know what she should do, or what l could do
for her. The first time she was there, l had my
ideas about her condition; it is my opinion that
she herself at first knew her condition; it seldom
| that females can be in her condition without know
ing it On her second visit, she asked for medicine
4 in such way that my inference was she desired al
abortion | gave her some vegetable pills;
would not give any woman medicine for tn
purpose Miss 0'Reilly desired. The Doctor va
[ proceeding to say something about the regu
+ lations OF the Church on the subject, when tn
jurors ruled it outl Ladies are constantly aT
plying for such medicines. Miss 0iReiily told m
she was not married. know nothing OF arseni
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