, 1866-06-01


An Iasra unfortunate Poison. Her
"clf-An Army on1cer Cnt> His
TAxout. |
Correspondence Nobt'e Rest-ter.1 |
NEW ORLEANS, Stay q. 1865.
Many Of my readers will remember au &C.
count gave some months since oil tue 1uur~
der of a Mexican woman named Funny Crouch.
For the benefit of those who did not read |
Of the case. Fanny Crouch kept boarding
house ut one time, but. falling in health, she
lcascd her house and furniture IL Mrs. Pclagic
Brown, who kept buar.lcrs likewise. Fanny
Crouch was tuEen Ill. and Mrs. Drown, at
ing her ice cram, and always presenting Il
with her own hand. Tho sick woman had
frequent fits Of vomiting and cramps in
the stomach, but continued to eat
the Ice cresna Mrs. Brown was so
good as to bring ler. One evening Mrs.
when returning began to speak OF the furui-
ture, saying that ehe would not buy such a
lot Of old stuff as that, etc. The next day
Fanny Crouch was taken dangerously sick,
and finally died. An hour or two afterwards
Mrs. Brown showed this young man re-
she had paid the money and had q witness to
show That Mrs. Crouch had given her the re-
ccipt. lie remarked, "but you have only
one witness, and tue law requires two." Mrs.
3. then tried to get him to sign the receipt
as the second, saving that il was "a mere mat
Crouch had lied iron, the ELECTS Of arsenic,
and Mrs. 3. was charged With the muF~
der. Upon examination before the Recorder,
Mrs. i. was detected In both perjury aad for
gerry, and her daughter was also implicated
IL these Offences. The hitter was finally re.
leased ard the mother held to appear for
trial gu the charge Of 1nauslaughtcr. This
trial ended Yesterday, aud the testimony
went to show that Mrs: Brown poisoned Fan
ny Crouch with arsenic, administered In ice
cream, for the sum OF 81 500 due on the fur
niiuse, The jury found verdict for man.
| slaughter, but recommended hcr to mercy.
| Mrs. anne Nforlaud, IN actress at the
"Olympic" theatre, In this city, committed
suicide day beture yesterday. It was very
| band treated her like hrutc. lie had often
given her the sros=est insults, and but short
time since, am told, knocked l:r down.
Tic coward! So badly treated and neglected
WAS she, that she was finally persuaded to
| institute suit for divorce. This was done,
but wonnan's heart IS strange compound;
antl for al! his abuse It seemed TINT she loved
him still. nnd was extremely Jealous ofhin- To
pit IN end to ali her troubles she took lautta~
mum aud died soon altcr. It Is a sad redcc.
tfcn to think Of this young woman upon the
stage, playing llcr part. and doing her best TO
breaking, The cause Of this melancholy
ai!i.ir must be stepped in byusali.y If this
does not make him better man. lie
should leave this scctiun also anu never RI"
turn, for among those acquainted will, the
facts, he should feel ashamed to raise his
head.
Another unfortunate came to her death ii
The same way only one night previous. stt
was from Iowa, and on the morning Of he,
death had heard bad news from Lome. Tha:
night she drank a pint OF laada!nun aud Eeye
woke again. Her nr.ee.:.e l. given is Jenn,
Mitchell. uef parents, i. Is said, reside Ii
Waterloo, Iowa.
Taete seems to hare'been quite mania 10
suicides thin the past three weeks, and sey
eral eases are repo:-ted, Last night l met ,
+ Young man who had bee,i an oiliccr in th
army, who cnt LIs throat 1rni. car to car
Fortunately he did not cut in the right place
and is now walking about the streets viii
his lace swathed III linen rollers.