New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-09
FATAL AFFRET.


FATAL AFFRAY.
A YouTG MAN COWHIDEs ANOTHER, AND GETS
SHOT AND KILLED-Carondelet street, near the in
tersection of Union, was thrown into the greatest
excitement last evening, by o renconter between
two worthy and well-known young gentlemen,
which resulted in the killing of by the other.
Thomas Fl. Uhlhorn and Eugene Fl. Levy, were
the parties; both about 81 years of age; the
former clerk, and the latter the cashier, in the
house Of Messrs. Hawkins & Norwood No. 48 Ca
rondelet street, near the corner of Union. Thomas
r. Uhlhorn, the deceased, was nephew of the
Hunt family Eugene H. Levy is the son of the note
and exchange broker Mr.. J. L. Levy. Both the
young gentlemen being SO well known and so re.
specially connected their tragic renoontre aroused
more than the usual excitement appertaning to
such meetings.
The best information we could gather was this
The young men were long time friends, working
together, as they did, in the same house. A few
days since Uhlhorn found himself accused Of en-
bezzliDg the amount Of bill which he had been
sent to collect, but which bill he and his friends
asserted was never collected. Day before yester
day he had an interview with Levy about this, and
denounced him as a ''lying Jew son of a b--h."
Levy says he accepted the insult. not resenting it
then and there, because the partners in the house
were absent, and because if he had made fight he
might have sacrificed his employers interest, by
being arrested and taken from his resposibe posi-
ton as per pro. Levy further says that he intended
calling upon Uhlhorn for satisfaction yesterday
morning but was dissuaded from it by the advice
| of his father and other friends.
Yesterday morning, Uhlhorn was dismissed from
| his position as clerk in the house by one of the
proprietors as his friends say, for his abuse of
Levy and as Levy says, for dishonesty. .
| Uhlhorn then determined to have satisfaction Of
| Levy. He got two of his friends to promise to
meet him in the afternoon, and go with him to
! Hawkins & Norwood's office, to call Levy out and
| have a settlement with him. The two friends
promised; one was punctual to the appointment,
and went with Uhlhorn to the office the other
| friend arriving at the rendezvous ten minutes too
| late, missed it all. The friend who was punetua
to the appointment, and who went with Uhlhorn to
the office, was young man named Salter.
1t was about s. O'Clock when they visited the
Office. As Levy says, young man unknown to
| him came to him in the counting-room whilst he
was busy at his books, and informed him that Mr..
| Uhlhorn was outside, awaiting an interview with
him. He declined going out; but IFS visitor in
sisted upon it, and taking him by the arm, informed
him that if he refused the interview he would be
denounced as q coward. Upon this he went out.
Though not in the habit of carrying weapons, as
he says, he had armed himself with revolver, and
had it in his pantaloons pocket, believing that
Uhlhorn would probably insult him again, and
maybe attack him upon sight.
As he stepped out n the banquette, Uhlhorr
J drew a white cowhide and went at him. Levy
t saws he received two violent cuts over the head
} Che has swelling his crown to show for one o.
the cus) he tried to catch the cowhde and take il
away from Uhlhorn, but not succeeding in this he
drew his revolver and fired twice. The first sho
missed; the second shot, he thought, took effect
Ehhorn fell, and he then went back into the office
where, in q few minutes he was visited by Officer
Hays, who invited him to go to the lookup, an in
vtation which he accepted willingly.
We have no further particulars of the rencon
ter, except from Mr.. Donovan, gentleman who
upon hearing Levys shots ran across the street
and found Uhlhorn lying on the banquette, hall
raised, his face covered with blood, and four
barrel revolver in his hand, which he was appa
rently trying to fire at somebody. Fearing that he
would shoot wild and hurt somebody, he took the
pistol out Of his hand and left it at the office of the
Chief of Police, with the above statement.
Soon after falling, Uhlhorn was picked up and
carried into the back office of Perkins & Co..
(Hawkins & Norwoods office being up stairs il
the same buildng) and laid out on cotton samp
ling table, where he breathed his last in about
quarter of an hour.
Coroner Beach, being notified, soon arrived anG
empaneIled jury. The post-mortem examination
was held by DR.. Chastant, assisted by DR.. Hunt
uncle of the deceased. The fatal bullet had entered
the right cheek, about an inch below the outel
corner of the eye, and, as was shown by the prob
ing, passed under the eye and upward obliquely
through the brain to the skull at point above ant
back of the left ear. The bullet did not come out
nor was it found the probing showing satisfac
toriy that the perforaton of the brain was tn
cause of death. The first knucke of the rnf
finger Of tho right hand, and the second knuckl
of the little finger, were found to be split open
' probably by the frat shot that Levy fired. Th
; Coroner will finish his inquest soon he cal
get the witnesses together.
f II was altogether q most unfortunate and sat
affair; creating not little excitement and discus
sion about town..
IMPORTANT ARRESTS.
THE RoBnERs IN BAD LucK.-M5'. Tdln5o,Uy'
Property Recovered, and he Robbers IN Limbo
We yesterday mentioned that during the earl
= morning hours of the day previous, the residenc
:, of Mr.. Tamhoury, on Apollo street, in the FoIrt
J. District, was entered by burglars and robbed G
three or four thousand dollars worth of goods. W
3 oyer-estimated the value Of the goods taken; th
: actual value was about $4,000. The robbers ell
S fected entrance at the rear, by means of falls
}, keys; and as a Watchdog had been missing from
:. the yard for several days, it is supposed that tn
robbers began operations by stealing the dog, il
!, order to render assurance doubly sure" w