New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-02
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1860.

1860.
planned of headache; witness told her not TO get
up; that she would bring her breakfast to her,
which witness did and before dinner was ready,
she got up, dressed and came down stsirs, looking
quite well. AT dinner she ate heartily and said
her headache was gone and that she felt very well
After dinner she went into the front-room and TOOK
up paper to read. At about o'clock in the even,
ing witness got supper. At supper she compiainedi
of having bad toothache, and feared she would
be troubled all night, and said she wished ehe
could get some one to get her some toothache
drops. Witness said she would get the drops; and
taking from her daughter picayune, witness
went to the drug store at the corner Of Race and
Tchoupitoulas Streets and got some oil OF cloves,
which the clerk told her to drop on piece OF cot
ton and put in the tooth. just as witness was
starting to go to the druggists, some one knocked
at the door, and deceased went to 1T witness heard
the voice Of Galceran say, Good evening, MISS
O'Reilly,n and heard her return the sautatioH.
After witness went to bed she was awakened by
her daughters hard breathing, and jumped up and
asked her if she was ILL., She replied that she was
very III. Witness lighted the lamp and looked at
her; and seeing she was dangerously sick, called
for her son to run for Doctor. She said, Mother,
ts no use send for the priest and send for Joseph
Galceran.p Witness sent young man for the
| priest and her son held Eleonora up little and
gave her some water: witness then took her in her
arms, and sent her son for Gaceran; Eleonora
| spoke word afterwards. When witness raised
| her, she threw up quantity of stuff resembling
| phlegm there was a rafting sound in her chest,
| and witness saw she was dying; and she died in
about half an hour after witness got up. Witness
| thought she had died of apoplexy; but her face
was pale. Witness never found anything out Of
| the way among her clothes ior in her wardrobe
About a month before she died, she had bundle
which contained witness silver spoons, besides
other things. Witness noticed that she took some
thing out Of the bundle and left only the spoons.
Witness asked her what she had done with her
money she replied that she had given it to some
one, to get changed into gold; adding that 1t was
all right. Witness first saw Gaceran abont six
years ago, at the corner of Orange and St. John
the Baptist streets, Eleonora then living with wit
ness, as she always had; after that witness moved
over to the house In which her daughter died Cal
ceran visited the house frequently, and was often
there, when witness knew nothing about it. Wit
ness did not know what Galcerans visits were for,
but supposed he was courting her daughter; be-
lieves she taught him to write. On witness asking
her about Galceran, she replied that she was old
enough to know what to do. This was several |
years ago. She always afterward answered wit
ness in the same manner about Gaceran. Wit |
ness never suspected her daughter in the least, |
having every confidence in her and thinking moth |
ing wrong about Galceran The day she died, |
witness did not see Gaiceran when he came, but |
heard him in the front room, and knew him by his
voice. Deceased never told witness that Galceran
had her money. The day after her death, Galce-
ran told witness she would find among her daugh-
ter's effects promissory note to her daughter for
S375 for value received and dated in 1857; he
asked witness if she wanted money, at the time.
Witness said she would want money shortly and i
he said whenever she wanted it she could get it.
lie said nothing about owing more than the amount |
OF the note. She never kept company with any
one beside Galceran. Witness did not know that
her daughter was out of the house the Sunday she
died. Don't know what time Galceran left that
evening; witness went to bed early. Never saw
Galceran bring any confectionery or eatables to
deceased except once, about four years ago he
might have brought such things to deceased with
out witness knowing it, Witness saw nothing |
about the room from which deceased might have
taken poison, nothing, except cup which was
DEATH everything was in the usual good order in
the front room. In the evening, before taking
sick, deceased was in her usual humor; she
showed no sign Of anything being wrong until
she began complaining of the toothache. Witness
never told any Of the neighbors that Galceran had
brought her daughter some gum drops for her
cough. Galceran did not arrive till after she was
dead; the priest never came at all. Galceran saw
deceased in the parlor after she was laid out he
cried very much about her death, there in the par
lor, and in the kitchen. Deceased was always
very kind to witness witness never had any fault
to find with her, except that she would always be
her own mistress still she was always very kind
to witness, and was honest, upright and religious.
Galceran was always very polite and genteel in his
manner to witness; she never had much to say to
him. When witness gave her daughter the oil of
cloves in her tooth, the latter said that would do
She knew witness was going to bed, and closed
the door after her. Her whole manner that even
ing was just the same as it had always been;
neither strange nor out of temper, nor unusually
takative or kind.
Mrs. Ellen Mu1Jo7ty-Iives next door to where
Mrs. 0'Reilly lived Know nothing of the affair."
only when Miss O'Reilly died, witness having gone
into the house on account of hearing sounds OF dis
tress, crying, etc. Went in because she heard the
old lady calling for assistance. Miss 0'Reilly was
dying when witness went in; lived seven or ten
minutes afterward. Could not tell what allied her:
she was lying perfectly quiet was not breathing
hard. Witness staid till morning. Had no knowl-
edge as to what caused the death, though an idea
OF her own crossed her mind when she was told
about the oil of cloves for the toothache. Witness
was acquainted with Miss 0'Reilly, and visited her
frequently. Saw Galceran often enough, but was
not acquainted. Witness saw nothing in Miss
OReily's room to cause suspicion as to the manner
of her death, except the vial of oil of cloves but
heard the suspicion around among the neighbors
that the death was not natural one.
Mrs. Mary MtI!tga,a-Resid on Orange street,
oReily. Did not see her the day She died. Know
nothing Of the circumstances Of her death; was
there, however, ten or fifteen minutes before she
died. Did not know what she died of; thought
her death was strange; but could not think what
caused it. She never spoke after witness entered
the room. Heard no talk about poisoning till it
was mentioned in the papers. Saw nothing in the
room of deceased from which poison might have
been given save tumbler, which they had been
giving her water from.
Wn1. O O'Reilly-Is brother of the deceased; lived
in the same house with herr was not at home all
udy tne SuHuay MS slster u1eu; was out attending
to the wagon he drives for the Star Press; was at
dinner, and saw his sister after she came down
stairs; was at home in the evening, and took tea
with her; saw nothing unusual about her; she COM
planned of the toothache. Witness left after sup
per, leaving his mother and sister in the supper
room. and went to bed heard no one knock at the
front door; his sister left the table to go to the
front door about the time he left to go to bed
know nothing that occurred in the front room.
Witness was aroused in bed by his mother, who
asked him to go for doctor; he went in to see
his sister; before going, deceased said it was no
use to send for doctor but to send for Galceran
and the priest had no idea that there was any
thing extraordinary in the manner of her death
had seen children die that way. Her request
to send for Galceran and the priest led him
to believe that she believed herself dying. Wit
ness went for Galceran, who staying at his
brothers eoffeehouse, at the corner of Robin and
Levee streets. Witness knocked at the door some
ten minutes, without getting Galeeran up; a watch
man came across the street and asked what the
matter was witness told him; the watchman then
raped at the door with his club fer some fifteen
minutes, but ne one got up or gave any response.
Witness returned home and found his sister dead.
Witness left the watchman at Galceran's, knock
ing at the door, Staid at home about ten minutes