New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-23
NUMBER 6s.

holland having just then murdered officer Somers, T
is dead of his wound. The Coroner held the inquest
yesterday, and upon the same testimony as taken /
at the inquest on Somers, (the present deceased I
being witness at tinquest) rendered the proper
verdict against Mulholland, who is in prison, now
with double murder on his head. Congdon was
native Of New York, rs years Of age.
ActTDEyTAL on NrEsrrosAL. ~ One day last |
week. passenger on the Opelonsas cars went into |
the private closet Of one Of the cars. A pistol /
shot was heard and the man was no more seen, the
closet being empty when opened Itwas believed
that The man shot himself and crawled out at the
window to die In the bushes by the roadside. This |
was not great distance this side Of the Bayou des
Alletnands. Ia ses
on Sunday afternoon, a man giving his name as
Armand Couchahd, q native Of the Department
of soane and Loire, France, 3s years Of age,
walked to the Charity Hospital and obtained admis-
sion He had two pistol balls in his abdomen, on
the left side of the navel, which had entered close
together. They had not penetrated the shirt or
clothes, and the skin was burned by powder, show
ing that the pistol mnst have been held close TO h
naked body. On his face, arms, knees and else.
where, were severe bruises and scratches, as If re-
suiting from violent fall. He was very non-com-
municative and answered only that he had shot
himself He said once that he had been lying two
days beside the railroad in Algiers. On Monday
the man died. M
Coroner Beach held the inquest yesterday. A
verdict was rendered Of death by pistol shot
wounds in the abdomen, the pistol being in tile
hands Of the deceased; but whether the shooting
was intentional accidental, the jury were unable
to aay. g
BopY or SUICIDE RECOVERED Ep-The Coroner
was called yesterday to hold an inquest on the
body OF a white woman, dressed IN black found n
The river at the foot Of ST. Andrew street, Fourth
District The body was Identified, not by the face,
St1at being impossble,) but by the dress, as that
OF Mrs. Catherine Gilmore, an irish woman, 10
years OF age, who jumped into the river at that
place on Thursday evening last. She had been
drinking hard, and was supposed to have jumped
into the river from the effects Of liquor. man
| who was standing on the wharf at the time said
| that the woman as she passed him said, f Good
| night, sir-don't you tell anybody II with which
she plunged into Ihe fiYef. she ieaves seVera
cllldreh' eraice, suicias " ~"
MrRDERous ASSAULT. - Joseph Tunisrnan,
young German, who stays at Perodat's plantation,
on the GENTLY Ridge, yesterday complained to
| Recorder Long, that on Monday evening, on the
4 Gentilly road, party OF twenty or twentyfour
persons unknown to him, but some of whom he
could point out, assaulted him, and gave him
i number Of blows on the head and body with
shovels. One of the blows laid his scalp open,
and his face was swollen to purple pudding,
worthy Of the prize ring. Warrants were issued
for the arrest Of the unknown assailants.
4 I ALLEGED HIGHWAY RoBBERY.--Thomas O'Neal
4 and william o,Neal were yesterday before Re
a A.
with highway robbery. The Doctor declared that
between 2 and O'Clock on the morning Of the 2lst
April, on Euterpe street, between ". Charies and
Garondelet, he was assaulted py tne o'Neais
! Thomas tripping him and William striking him
violent blow in the face; that, having him down
they took his gold watch and chain, valued q
, $500, and his pocket-book, containing w oo y
> cash, and note for sso Ihe DOCTOR also mad
8 second affidavit against the accused, charging
them with having repeatedly threatened 70 assas
a sinate him. Ihe ofNeais gave pan Oh sooo eacn
Q on each charge, TO appear ior examination On th
!. 18th inst.
The SLAVE LIQuoR LAw.-John McCracken, gro
GER corner of Girod and Dryades street, yesterday
furnished bail to Recorder Summers, to answer t.
the charge of allowing B. Harrissons slave William
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