Shreveport semi-weekly news. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-06-17

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The sun had scarcely risen when
Capt. McGovern wendell his way to
the leyee and commenced to investi-
gate the circumstances connected
with the mysterious barrel. The first
fact noticed in connection with it
was, that the barrel had contained
damaged -four which it was crusted
to the thickness of from half to three
quarters of an inch over the whole OF
the interior surface. Though the
barrel was still large enough to con
tain the body, it was with difficulty
that the legs had been forced down
beneath the head, and their unnatu-
raj confinement was the cause OF the
rebound when the fisherman first
opened it, in order to ascertain its
contents. With the body inthe bar
rel there was a considerable quaint
ty Of the ordinary litter of a horse
stable: and the quick eye Of McGov-
ern noticed among the fragments OF
the hay peculiar weed which hvr-
ses never eat In the refuse from the
stable, which had been packed in with
the body, there Were also many pieces
of broken window glass.
All these things We're specially set
down in Capt. McGovern's detective
notebook. 70 be connected and toll
lowed up as the occasion might re
Yuire.
While McGovern and Deputy Cor
oner Loze, who had joined him, We're
still engaged in examining the barrel
and its contents, two boys came along
the levee with Il wh.elbarrow, and
stopped at a feed store just opposite.
This store was kept by one Antoine
Cartigues. and the boys had been
sent there thus early by their widow
ed mother to purchase sack of p
tatoes. The little fellows had a sad,
detected look. and well they might,
for their younges; brother had myste-
riously disappeared three days before
and up to that time no tidings had
been heard OF him. 1t was quite evi-
dent that they had been weeping,
and-as it subsequent y appeared
they left their mother III a state OF
deepest dependency, for she was
convinced that something terrible had
happened to her darling boy, and
that his DAYS on earth were sealed,
Seeing barrel on the levee. with
men engaged in curious scrutiny
around it, the two boys lrf, their
wheel-barrow and approached. Ia Il
moment they saw that the body III
the barrel was that Of their poor lost
brother, and for time tears chokcd
their utterance. Although decompo-
sition had already commenced, id"n-
LITIGATION was by no means difficult
for the clothes worn BY poor Iheo-
dore when he disappeared We're still
on him, ana he had a deep scar on
his unshod foot which was quite ia
miliar to his brothers eyes.
When the facts were further known
it appeared that the name of the mar
dered boy was Theodore George
Woolhey He was the youngest OF
tour brothers, who had resided with
their widowed mother in the Third
District ofthe city, and their struggle
for the necessities of life had been by
no means an easy one. The oldest
of the boys had been employed rs
messenger or errand boy by the Tow
boat Company, and another had sit
uation of similar character in the tow
boat telegraph office, which was At
that time located in Algiers, the line
being owned and controlled by the
Tow-boat Company.
After school was over, little Thco-
dore and his brother Fred would FIRE
quently ran up the levee to the tow
boat office, which adjoinel Dartigue-
feed store, where they would meet
their older brother, and when
the business of the day was done
they would all return home together.
One pleasant afternoon in August,
Just before the mysterious barrel was
picked up, Theodore and Fred went,
as usual, to the tow-boat Office to see
their brother, but he was absent on a
tow-boat. They met, however u
young play fellow of theirs, named
William Stickney,and the three com
menced to play about the wharves
the familiar Juvenile game of "hide
and seek After exhausting all the
hiding places beneath the wharves
the youngsters extended their play
ground to Dartigues' premises, aud
the old feed vender, who WAS very
irritable in his disposition, warmed
them at once to leave.
For the time being the boys did
60 away. Soon after, when it was
Theodore's turn to hide, he went off
and was so ctfectually hidden that
though the others sought him for an
hour they failed to find him, and 1t
length, surprising that he had gone
home, they, too, turned their face
homeward.
The night which followed was a