Evening star., 1865-10-16
LOCAL NEWS.
The Outrage upon Little Octavie Roussea


The Outrage upon Little Octavie Rousseau.
THE TIIAL OF LUsBY-
CRIMINAL CoURT, Judge Wylie.-This morn
ing the trial of this case was resumed.
The counsel for the accused moved that the
Court exclude from the evidence all statements
in relation to the homicide as charged in the in
dictment. as made by the witness, William p
Wood, after the arrest of the prisoner and dur
ing his confinement. And further all state
ments OF the prisoner alleged to have been made
10 the witness, Wood, while the prisoner was
confined in a cell in the Carroll Prison.
Mr. Bradley proceeded TO read such portions
of the testimony of Mr. Wood as he referred TO,
and he quoted various authorities in support Of
his motion. ...-
Judge wylie said, in point of fact, no confess
Mr.. Bradley said that the prisoner had the
right to ask that the admissions as 10 washing
blood from his hands, &c, be excluded.
Ihe Court denied the motion, and the coun-
sci took exceptions. TO r
MIR. Wilson, for the prosecution, here Of
fered 70 prove by b. s. kinsey, late justice of
the pea ce, the substance Of the evidence given
before him by Louisa Ingle, now deceased, on
the preliminary examination before him
Mr.. Bradley objected that IL was not as 90
what the deceased witness said, but what was
understood by the witness called, &c.
MIR. Wilson asked leave to amend the offer,
and 1t was offered anew, setting forth that the
testimony is in effect the same as that given by
Emma Ingle; and after argument
The Court decided that the testimony WAS
not proper; and .--------- .
the prosecution.-Witness resides on 5fh street,
between g and Z, and knows the prisoner, w ho
is the husband Of witness sister. Witness was
at the house Of the prisoner on Thanksgiving
night and the night after. Witness saw 3
shirt on Friday night which her sister showed
hef; III mad blood on 1t did not notice on what
part, bnt il looked like blood; was around the
edges. Inc prisoner was not present at the
time. Witness never had any conversation
with the accused about the homicide, nor did
she read or hear read any account of It in his
lrl trNh hnr GfENa.- g.
day following about the homicide. Lusby
was in the same room at the time, and walked
towards the stove as she was telling about IL,
and appeared TO pick at the stove, bnt did not
say anything about it. Witness and her sister
left the room and went in another room. Wit
ness was at the house the night Lusby was ar
sister was unwen was after Lusby had been
arrested, but could not tell how long after-
wards. The lower part of the shirt looked
like n had been washed.
Cross oss-examined:-Witness lived At Mrs
Marches at the time, and went to Lusby's
nearly every night. Witness was not at the
time on good terms with the accused; it COM
menced because her sister joined the Daugh.
tiers Of Temperance, and he ordered witness
not TO come TO the house Witness does not
know that the reason he ordered her away was
because she married her second husband when
the first was living. She did not know whether
the first husband was living or not; he had
told Mrs. Marche of what she had sworn to
and others, but did not tell Mr.. Wood. Wit
ness would put the rope around the neck of
the prisoner il he was guilty. Witness does
not know but that she told some that she
would hang John Lusby if she could because
she hated the very ground he walked on. She
had no right TO Like him on account of
the way he had cursed and abused her.
Witness liked the prisoner out of her sight bet
ter than in it. Witness did not tell her sister
that she noticed that she was unwell before
John was arrested. and was certain that she
did not notice il before. Witness saw some men
there when Lusby was arrested, but does not
know who they were. Witness was there be-
Cause her sister sent for her. She had gone 10
bed when one of the Lusbys (Robert) came for
her and she went around where she found that
one or two men were up stairs They said
something to her about Lusby's clothes; did
not see any OF her sisters clothing that night
Witness did not know before Lusby's arrest
that there was some of her sisters bloody
clothing lying in the room. Witness saw an
old blue coat there that night and also n pair of
pants which she understood had been found
Witness was not at Lusby's the evening of
Thanks giving Day, and did not see I.usby
witness does not know what time she went
there Thanksgiving Day nsr when she came
away, but As certain that she did not see
Lusby. =
BY the prosecution Witness told Mrs
Marche about the shirt and other things: was
worried at the time and told Mrs. Marche what
her sister had told her.
John 4. w. Cldrroe, sworn.-Witness is a de-
tectiye, and on the 25th of November last made
an al. examination u n OF the vicinity Of Mr. Rons.
and went out TO search around. In a vacant
lot between New Jersey avenue and North
Capitol street, between and c, about square
and half from Mr.. Rousseau's, discovered the
foot t-prints Of child next to a stable, and took
the measure Of the print, and some of the mud
(manure and coal dust) There was also the
print of a mans foot, large, apparently Of a
soldiers shoe, near by. Witness noticed one OF
the foot prints of the child's shoe, (the left
foot;) had tread sideways, and took some of the
house. Mr.. Rousseau gave witness the child's
shoe, and found IL muddy on that side up to
the top, and that the mud on the shoe and mud
taken from the place correspondent. Witness
measured the impression found and il CORE
sponded to the shoe. The ground appeared as
if a hog had been lying there.
Gross COMMUNICATIONS took the measure
with stick. The impressions Were near a
stable door, and the ground was very moist.
The shoe was muddy, one side very much SO.
held an inquest on Saturday over the remains
OF colored woman named Elizabeth Jane
BAKER. at a house on q street, between 2lst and
I'D streets, in the First Ward. Two gentlemen
testified before the jury that on Saturday
morning, at abovt II O'Clock, they passed
Bakers house, when he came TO his door and
OF water in his kitchen. They Immediately
pulled her out, and found her pulse still feebly
beating, but she soon died. Baker had carried
a Itub full of water into the kitchen in the
morning. and II was suspected that he took her
life by cling her head into the water and
holding it there, but no evidence before the
iury confirmed the suspicion, and the iury
rendered their verdict accscdingiy. 1a7,s -
EseAPKD AsAIN.-Wm Bald win, the noto-
rious horse thief, who Wss tried by court mar
tial in this city, and sentenced TO be Imprisoned
for tn rec years and pay ine Of q oOe for steal.
ing horses from the Government, made his es-
cape again on Wednesday by jumping from the
window of q car in motiOn near Havrs-de-
the Concord IN. H. prison. This 10 the third
time Baldwin has made his escApe--twice by
iu1npiug from the cars, and once from the Old
Capitol prison by climbing over the high en-
ciosufes OF the yard. H. -. 80 - 49,
- dGRAsp TLARcKxY.- YesseFdAy, Martha
Stewart, colored, was ayreseed nv o15cer = vyis
Stewart, a colored soldier OF - 50 % O. rexi.
ment. The money was not recovered, but the
accused was sent to Jail for court by Justice