New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-11-06
rHE KILLING oE JACOB koHLmAn.


THE TESTIMONY IN THE CASE. - Yesterday we
mentioned the death at the Charity Hospital of
Jacob Kohman, (not Coleman, as we spelled it1
from the effects of pstol-shot wound inflicted by
Anthony DeIpit. The Coroner and his jury had to
examine only two. witnesses, to enable them to
render verdict Of murder against Delpit. A sad
moral is set forth in the testimony of 0'Connor;
the folly of men getting into a drunken quarrel
about nothing and the greater folly of third party
trying to heal the trouble by causing the disput-
ants to drink still more. " Let's drink n-" Take
another drink ~" final drink, and go home ~
" More drinks" and so on is honestly interlarded
by the generous but faulty O'Connor in his account
of the affair which resulted so tragicalIy. The tes
tmony Of the wife of the deceased and of 0'Con-
nor was as follows:
| Sophia Kohtnadn, sworn--I am the wife of the
| deceased On Friday night the 9th of October, at
| about o'clock, Anthony Depit had difficulty
with his brother, the opposite side of the street
| from where we live, corner OF Benvile and Tonti
streets. He afterwards came over to our grocery,
and came in along with his brother, Emile Delpit;
they were still quarfeng when they came in;
Tony Delpit told his brother to shut his mouth and
he would not; Tony then said, Z" Ii you do not
will shoot you and he then shot twice into the
ceiling and once through the partition, making
three shots. My husband then told Delpits brother
and another to hold him, and not let him shoot any
more; my husband was then standing in the door
of the partition which separates the grocery from
the back room; as he spoke to Delpit's brother,
aimed his pistol at him seeing this, my husband
shut the door, and as he did so Delpit fired, the
bullet going through the panel of the door, and
shooting and wonnding my husband, who cried out
that he was shot; and ut the same time Tony Del
pit again commenced quarreling with his brother
he afterwards said 1t was not his intention to shoot
my husband. | was standing by the door in the
! partition and could see into the grocery Delpi
and my husband had difficulty at this time bui
Delpit had raised o difficulty in the grocery some
month or SO ago. s-examined-As soon as
} kohlman was shot, he went oat 10 find physician
{ but not finding one, he was advised to go to the
hospital. Dept and his brother remained at the
grocery till IL o'clock.
James 0Connor, sworn-0n last Friday two
weeks ago, was lying on my pavement, one
9 square from the grocery of Kohlman Between
/. and o'clock, P. M, p saw Tony and Emile Del,
i pit coming down Benyie street towards Kohl.
mans. Tony Delpit gave whistle TO call me;
got up and went down to the grocery, and Deipit
asked me to take a drink with him. We staid there
some time, and took several drinks together; every
! thing was quiet, and nothing OF any consequences
0 was said at the time. Emile Dept asked Mrs. Kohl
o man if she told her husband what he had asked her
to tell him. replied yes, she had. Emile then
9 said to me he would wait till Kohlman came home
as he wanted to settle old debt with him he
j. said he had some hogs that he would give him
;. for what he owed him. then went home to gel
my coat leaving the brothers at the grocery. When
came back, found them on the opposite side OF the
: street. at another grocery. asked them if they
were going home they said said yes; they crossed
, the street agasn to Kehlman's, and Emile said
Let's take another drink y as we were taking the
drink, kohlman came In, and he and Tony DELPHI
had some talk together In q friendly manner, tc
which paid no attention. We then all had severa
drinks together, along with kohman. Emile Del
pit and kohiman had in the meantime made thu
settlement about the hogs. Kohiman then wen
0 INTO the back room, think 10 eat his supper