New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-17
NUMBER Ill.

WneheFef his wife or witness approached him.
witness could not understand what Nicoai said,
as he spoke in German witness then left them
altef telling Mrs. Nicoiai that she oaght to send
lof aSctcf-I After while NieoIai came out and
III e Lle gallery he vas holding mp his left arm,
WhicH witness saw was cut in the wrist He was
complaining. Witness told him he onpht 10 lei bis
arm be dressed he shook his head and said no.
Witness told Mrs. Nicolai the same thing. Sicoiai
remained there until past 10 O'Clock, without hay.
ing his wound dressed; at that time witness re.
tired. About half-past Ii o'clock witness heard
Nicolai talking to his wife, and heard Mrs. Neolai
4 tell The other woman, who lives III the next room,
that her husband wanted her to give him opium,
! but she would not.
Between ana o'clock a. N. Mrs Nieolai came
and knocked at the door of witness room, and
Il called out to his woman, z Louise, Louise come
| remained in bed. After while Louise came back,
trembling, ard said that Mr. Nicoai had hung him
sef and that Mrs. Nicolai taking her into the
| back yard and opening the window Of the room
behind the kitchen, showed her the body of Mr..
Nicolai hanging to the ceiling. Witness would NOT
get up 70 see about it. When he got np at lis
usual hour, quarter to five, lie found Mrs. Nicolai
IL the yard. She told him to go and see the body,
but he refused and never went near it till the
police came. Witness went to give notice at the
Coroner's office; and when he returned, at twenty
minutes past five, he found the police there. Dr.
Delery passed by at about O'clock and being
called by the officer, went in and looked at the
body. From the time the body was discovered till
after . O'Clock. witness knows that no doctor was
the room, and the front door of the kitchen, lead
ing to it, closed, and remained so till broken
open by the police.
Philippine Dietrich, sworn.-0n Tuesday even
ing, about o'clock, witness, twho occupies the
front room OF Mrs. Nicolai's fesidence,) was SIT
ting at her window, when colored woman came
to the window and said g Go in the yard; Mrs
Nicolai has found her husband in the kitchen all
bloody" Witness went and found Nicolai in a.
bed in the kitchen, half covered up with pillows
and quilts, if he wanted to smother himself.
He was all bloody from a eut ia the left wrist.
Mrs. Nicolai asked witness to 90 out In the street
and call some one to help take her husband ont OF
N bed. Nicoai said, No, he would get up himself.n
He got up and came out and washed the blood
from his arm. Witness helped Mrs. Nicolai to tie
some sticking plaster ON the wound and helped to
dress him. They put on him an andershirt, pair Of
pants and socks, and put him to bed in that dress
1t was his custom to sleep with his pants on. Mic
OLAF came out of the kitchen ana washed, about
fifteen minutes after he found there; il may
\ have been fifteen minutes more before lie was
dressed and put to bed. When in bed, he com
planned great deal, and wanted something to put
him to sleep.
N Witness advised Mrs Nicolai not to give him any
opium. When they asked Nicolai how he got that
cut he said he had fallen against some broken
glass near the kitchen; but no blood was found
there although they looked for it. Witness sat up
some time with Mrs. Nicolai, and then retired to
I her own room. During the night, at about IL
: o'clock, came and laid by witness on her bed
witness slept and supposes Mrs. Ncolai slept also.
AUUuL z q CLOCK, OF between tnab ana n,
Mrs. Ncolai got up to go and see how her husband
was getting on, and did not find him in the bed.
The lamp was not there. and the key Of the kitchen
had disappeared. Mrs Nicolai went in the yard
and returned shortly, and told witness that her
husband had hung himself in the room back of the
| kitchen. The kitchen door and back door were
both locked inside. Mrs. Nicolai had opened a
small window in the back room. and by that means
saw her husband hanging. Witness got up, but
would not go and see. Mrs. Nicolai went and
called the colored woman in the next room; shs
afterward came and sat with Witness They wers
frightened that they did not think of calling tbs
watchman sending for doctor. Everything
remained thus till the police came in the morning
Witness never heard Mrs. Ncolai say she wa
tired Of her husband, and wished he would die
J She always treated him very kindly.
7 Christina Nicoai sworn-The testimony of tt.
witness, (the accused) corro borated that Of Philip
. pine Dietrich, with this discrepancy, that Mrs Nj
colai stated that she remained near her husband
till near | O'Clock when she went to Philippine
l bed. She slept there an hour two, and then re-
turned to her room and found her husband was moi
there. She then went to the kitchen and found
the door locked, and the back door fastened also
She pulled open one of the shutters of the small
window, and passing her hand in, lifted the hook
and opened the window and thrusting her light
inside, saw her husband hanging. She then went
to tell the people of the house; she was scared,
and did not know what to do. The colored man
Populus told her to wait till daylight when he
would go and notify the Coroner. Witness ad-
mitted that Mary White called at her house on
|
! conversation about her husband.
After hearing the above, the Coroner and jury
went and inspected the house on Burgundy street.
They found several of Nicolai's signatures among
his papers, and these signatures were exactly like
that to the note found, expressing an intention 10
commit suicide. Several other witnesses were ex-
amined at the house; and their testimony showed
that Mary White was a habtual drunkerd, at times
crazy, and not to be relied upon. The jury of in
! quest thereupon rendered the following verdict:
The jury Of inquest, after hearing the testimony
l adduced, do not find any necessity for reconsider
i ing the verdict Of suicide rendered by them yes
terday, there being ample testimony to show tina
Mary White is not reliable witness, as she is no
always in the enjoyment of her mental faculties
and her declaration not being sustained by an,
further evidence. Yet considering the eircum
stances Of the case, this jury must express then
severe censure of the passive action of Mrs Nico
lai and the persons residing in the same house in
not having called physician the police as soon
as the deceased was discovered hanging So little
time had elapsed from his disappearance to the
moment he was discovered hanging that it can be
safely presumed that had proper assistance been
then given, the deceased might have been saved
as the slow loss of blood, more than the hanging,
was in our opinion the cause of death.
RECORDER EsERsoS's sCouRT.-Assistant Recorder
Bakewell presided yesterday again, and made the
drunkards and yagrants dance to merry tune.
Jus, iOF Ills IllppefS TOO
roughly upon Jas. Mcdonald, Sr., the aged author
Of his being, was required to pay S25 or spend two
months in prison. j. w. Wood, for interfering
with and threatening officer Dugger; and Francis
Garcia, Nat Thompson John Z. Currans, and John
Kennedy, were required to pay 80 each, or go to
prison for month, for drunken breaches Of the
peace similar alternative was offered to quite
| lot of others, charged with drunkenness oDly
VIM. Mccormack, charged with raising breeze
in the NeraIdah Hotel, Was fined $.
Louisa Merritt charged with stealing cold watch
and chain worth so from Peter Slayen, an innocent
from Plaquemnes, whilst he was sleeping in her
crib on Dfyades street, dismissed but for
drunkenness and breach of the peace she was re-
quired to pay so fine, and not having the money
She went to prison for MONTH
RECORDER BLAcHE's CoURT.-J. G. Montfort f.
IN. c., was yesterday tried for selling liquor to q
slave in his grocery at the of St, Philip and
/ IRENE streets. He was found guilty and sem
fenced to pay fine of $3.50 or go to prison six
months, without forfeiture of license.
George Tegder, charged with selling liqnor TO
| slave at the corner OF Old Leyee and Burfacks
streets, was discharged, the prosecutor, John
Arens, having gone to France.
Leon Tomatis, not red, but one of the black
/ Tomatiscs, (being free colored3 gave bail TO an.
swer the charge OF having abused and threatened
| John Sabatero, on Rampant street. Leon will be
! one ofthe stewed fomatises when Recorder Blache
| gets through with him.
/ Lueca Stetta gave bail Of SI5D0 to answer fle