New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-31
THIRD DISTRICT RAPE CASE.


Gustaye LedanauX, whose arrest we mentioned
last week, was yesterday put upon examination
before Recorder Magioni, on the charge Of having
by persuasion and threats outraged the person Of
Louise Roussel, a child years old, daughter Of
Marie Coulon, f. W. c.; the time being Monday
afternoon, I'D inst, and the place house on
Columbus street, between Vere and Robertson.
The prosecutrix is light quadroon of the respect
able class, and the childs sweet and pretty little
| thing white as anybody-would pass for pure
white child anywhere. Ledanaux is a rough-looking
| Frenchman, perhaps 35 or 40 years of age; cab
driver and husband, it is said of very nice wife,
He was arrested without there being any certainty
| that he was the guilty party. He was defended by
Mr.. Drouett; the State was represented by Mr. H.
| st. Paul.
| Marie Collon f. 10. G., sworn--On Monday after
noon October 24d, at half-past 8 o'clock, my
| daughter, Louise Roussel, aged years and j
| months came home with some sugar plums and one
| dime in her hands. She was pale and trembling !;
| asked her if she was sick; she said that gem
| teman around the corner had made her come III
house to give her the sugar plums, ana gave hef
/ dime besides; and that he then did dirty things
| with her. EThe witness narration of what the
child told her, and of what she and physician
discovered upon examining the child, we cannot
| publish.l Ever since then the child has been con-
fined to her bed, and unable to walk, This is the
first day she has walked, and she walks with diff
| Guilty, Witness describes the soreness of the
child yet exsting the result OF the violence per-
petrated
Gross eran,iaed-The first part Of my evidence
is derived from what my child told me. She was
not crying when she came home: she was pale
and trembling; but she commenced crying when
she showed me the dime and the sngar-plams.
did not examine her just then, but did 50 between
6 and I o'clock in the evening. She did not GO
out to play that evening. She walked with me
| next day to the Recorders office, when | came tC
!, make the affidavit. She did not give me the name
of any man, or any description other than that il
was dark-haired man. After getting tins IN
. formation from her, went Immediately with hel
to find out the place; in the evening again my
child walked around with me to show me thu
place as she walked, she complained that some
d thing hurt her very much. | sent for the Docto
9 on Wednesday, and he came that day at 10 O'Clock
q The accused proposed to send doctor, but re
fused; this was on Tuesday evening; stated tha
!. had my own doctor, which was DIR. Beugnot
y TO The Recorder.-Two persons came to m.
house q think on Wednesday, but am not snre1 an
asked how the child was j did not tell them hoy
= she was they then said to me that would have
= = employ lawyer and spend money, and that ha
u better make arrangements. | told them woul
have nothing to do with it, and that was my ow
- charge d'afdires. do not know who sent the tw
e persons to my house. They said that Madam
Gnstaye twife of the prisoner) was despairing
they did not say that they had been sent by til
in accused. | never saw the accused before tn
Is morning, and even now cannot say that ! kno
in him.
Louise Roussel, sworn-I go to school. | W;
coming from school, when man met and gave II
of some sugar plums and dime, and took me into
=. room. 1.-THE child described, as her mother ha
. from her narration, the full particulars of the
= voting outrage. Her story clear, and NO eros
u questioning upset anything she said.l
The child was requested to point out the prisone
~ who had for this purpose been seated among t
n spectators around. She looked around, but eou
not discover the person who had outraged he
The Recorder left his seat and led the little thir
E. around, putting his haads on different persons, al
asking, SIS this him7n Does this look like Il