New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-11-20
NUMBER 222.

">Sa ioIE Eths HSaj Ddh gwen ny el4e HSoSSS'
REcoRDze BlAcHE's CeTsr- Emile, slave ofJae
coDs was yesterday sent to prson on the ch5Tge OF
hayllg stolen bucket worth two bits, frcEn Mr..
streets.
Mary Walker, T. c., was sent to prison for lay
ing violent hands on the person Of Margaret
Walker, I. W. c., in house Oh Franklin street.
Pat. Kinney was sent out on the charge Of haT-
ing broken open and ried Of portion Of its sweet
contents, sugar hogshead belonging to Mr. 2. A..
Giraud.
ELY Maginnis was dismissed from the charge Of {
thrashing Lizzy Maginnis on GhaFtFes street. The
other business was uniiDportanS. n large crowd
Of drunkards was disposed Of.
RRcoRDER LoxG's .CouBr.-In the ease Of the
State Vs. Gnstave Ledanaux, charged with violating /
the person Of Louise Roussel, child u years cid,
Assistant Recorder Magioni yesterday read the |
following decision: |
In this case the accused is charged with having,
on the 22d of October last, between the hours OF
and O'Clock in the afternoon, committed rape |
on Louise Rousselt a child aged years, ~ a mouse
situate Columbus street, between Nillere and |
Robertson streets.
The evidence of Marie Coulon, mother of the |
child, and that Of DR.. BeUgnot who examined her
and the evidence of the child herself, shows that
| an attempt 10 violate her person had been made
| The child had to keep her bed, and was still
unWell on the 9TH Of November, when the Doctor
| gave his testimony.
The accused, though pointed out to the child
has not been recognized or identified by her.
TIE failure on the part Of the child has not snr.
prised me at all. She appears to be tImid and
| bashful and bent her head down when she was
giving her testimony; she was not acquainted with
| did not know, and had never seen before that DAY
| the man who had injured her. The accused, who
| was arrested on the day think subsequent to the
| day the affidavit was made, appeared to me as
though he had not shaved himself for several days
before, and did not appear cleani but on the day
| of the examination in court, he was well shaFed,
| well combed and well dressed.
But there several important facts, which
| have been proven the examination, which are
strong, and are sufficient in my opinion to fix the
/ crime upon the accused. sgst t5..s .5.sg
1t came out in the course Of the examination that
4 Marie Coulon, the mother Of the child, did not
4 know, had never seen, and could not even point
4 out the accused in court. She was then asked by
the Court how she had discovered the name Of the
4 accused. She answered that the child had pointed
II, out the house to her the same evening. She went
s, twice and found the doors shut; and at about
she found lady, and told her she had come to
see who had given her child sugar plums and a
] ten cent piece. The lady said her husband had
not been there but that her brother-inaW had
been there between the hours of 3, Land O'Clock ];
and the lady who is the sister-in-law of the ac-
cused, and is named Mrs. Regnier, and resides
there, gave her the name Of the accused.
Mrs. Francois Regnier, who had given the name
of the accused, testified that she gave the name
of the accused because she found her gate open,
and supposed that he had been there, and because
she had been informed that he had passed by dur
, ing the day. She now, however, says that the
accused could not have got into the house, because
the doors Of the house were closed; that she left
= her house about o'clock in the morning OF that
day, and her husband was to leave the house in
the morning; she returned at o'clnck in the
evening, and her husband arrived at 10 O'Clock
that night; and that she had left him in bed when
she left in the morning.
Mr., Francois Regnier, husband OF Mrs. Regnier,
and brother-nlaw of the accused testifies that he
left the house that day at ocloek in the morning
! and returned at 10 O'Clock at night; locked the
u door of the house and the gate and put the key
Of the house where his wife could find it, and hung
the key of the gate back of the gate, where the
neighbors know It hangs that since this affair ant
before, he hid the key Of the house IN / dlieren
Q place every day; and being asked why he changes
the place every day. says that he is afraid Of ben
ia robbed
y The house Of Mr.. Regnier is on Columbus street
N between Robertson and Villere streets it is aroun
the corner and about square from where TIL
child Louise Roussel lives. The house stands bac
te about twelve feet from the fence, and is Ike
lg lott the lot next to it is an empty key lot, and q
n the other side of it there is the corner house. MI
- Regnier and his wife live there alone; she goe
: out sewing the whole day. and he Is police of
os GER and leaves the house after his wife, The chill
id has shown me the house, the room and the bed
+ and she SAYS that the door OF the house was ope
= when she was called in. This is positive eyidenc
p that the door was opened, and is entitled to a
S. much weight as her evidence would have been ha
she identified the accused.
Who was it that on that day, and between tn
IN hours of 8 and O'Clock in the evening, opene
er that door, and committed an assault with intent
- | commit a rape on the child H
~ A witness, Mrs. Antoine Jacquet, who resides Q
e, the corner Of Columbus and Robertson streets, an
lg who had o light spasm before she commence
al giving her testimony, says on that day she saw h
- child Louise Rousset on the sidewalk near her dt
CT mieil. between the hours of and o'clock in th
er afternoon; that she did not pay attention if til
le child was alone the child seemed to be gay an
was not crying. This witness had already left he
| seat when she was called back and asked by tn
ks Court if she had seen the accused that day. sl
III answered that she had. And where did you Sc
Gs,,,,, I-tpos tha tlnxua kvraa
our house and Mr.. Regners house. AT whf
ID | hour? Does not remember the hour. but thinks
was from IL o'clock NJ. to o'clock P. M. Sa
ny the child on that day the sidewalk, and the a
cused was there also; did not see the accuse
at have hold of the child the child was standing
the banquette, and the accused was walking bae
he ward and forward the accused did not seem to
SOBER
Mrs Widow Mahalin, the mother or gran
nd mother of Mrs. Antoine Jacquet, and who resid
Its at the same place. says that SHE saw the accuse
ew on that day, between the hours of and
or o'clock, in the grocery; that the accused ga
en- to her anddaughter, Marcehne Abade, suga
plums in her presence, and between the hon
snt already mentioned; that she has known the a
of cused about year, and that he came to Il
as house about once in three months; that he HI
or been there for month previous to this afia
% and has not seen him since then.
ed Now Louise Roussel in her testimony says tn
e as she was coming from school man met h
DID and gave her some sugar-pfums and dime, al
IN, brought her to room and did some dirty thin
'ou to her. The house was pointed out py tne chi
ing to her mother; and the room was pointed out
ing the Court by the child and some Of the saga
I'm pIums were shown to the Coart. The house
ere that of the brother-in-laW Of the accused, W
could have gone into it when he was Walki
ga backward and forward in front of the house,
'ar- though placed there o sentinel, from the ho
an, of Ii Nj. to about the hour of 81 o'clock in
on afternoon of that day. Between the hours OF
lnd and g. he was seen to give some sugar.pluns tc
ned young girl named Abadie, at the corner. I
ere presumption is, that it he who also gave sng
:. plums to Louise Roussel, and that y was he "
NJ went into the house !; and that he must ha
ave known where the key Of the house was plaeea
:, Regnier, or had a key himself The accused il
and cab driver. He was not sober. He has not Nd
Ike any any attempt 90 show where he uas at
es time the attempt So commit . rape is sad.to ID
MIN been made.
Mrs. Francois Regnier. his sister in-law, al
eld having heard on the evening of the 22d 0eto
:, that Gustaee f.edananx lad passed by in the col
Sht. of the day. so1d Marie Coulon that not her hush
ol but Ledanaux, had been there, and even gave
OF name . Marie Coulon, though now she says
10 no pfsrson knew where the key Of TIE house
From all the facts aud circumstances in this Q
'lhg m of the same opinion as that expressed BY
,Yee , sster-inlaw, that it was he, Gustaye Ledan
@ ,otn who was there and went into the house and
W further OF the opinion that he made the assau
. Ioa;se Roussel, with the intent TO commit r
10 ed J, therefore, send him to the Criminal Cour