New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-13
VOLUME XVI.

house in the evening and remarked "bIrs. Behan,
lee very weak" Witness replied it was whisky |
"!aI ,ls the matter. The deceased asked for |
cup of tea, snd staggered. He then went into |
his room. Behan was on the most friendly terms
with the deceased. The former was in the kitchen
when MaCkin came in. Cannot tell whether Behan
followed him, who told her Mackin was
cut One of the boarders was in the room
asleep when the atabbing was done. Witness
woke him up. Witness does not know by
whose orders the deceased was carried down
stairs and put into cab. Know nothing Of the
stripping off of his clothes. The deceased did not
die Immediately. Witness heard no scufling on tile
gallery. James Byrnes took HIM into his room.
Witness does not know who washed oil the blood
| from the floor, or who was the first person who
came into the room after the deceased was
wounded. Witness ordered a man named
Bennett to take the deceased to the hospital.
| Witness knew nothing about the deceased
| having any money but heared that he
was robbed of a small amount about two weeks
ago. Bill O'Donnell was the man who was
asleep in the room where the deceased was killed.
| Nicy Coleman sworn, says-Llyes on Hunter
| and IchOupitOuas streets. Was standing a
| gallery near the house and saw two men seufang
| 10 the room, and lady was 'ying TO part them.
Since learned that her name was Mrs. Behan. she
called her sister-in-law to come and part them
/ The fight first began in the room at the head OF
the stairs They pushed the man that was killed
out Of the room and while they were doing 50,
the man left behind said he meant to Kill him.
| The other one said, " You will--will you He
(Behau) said ~ will, as sure as there is God in
Heaven.n Saw him fix his knife in his pants be-
| fore going into the room. Then he went IN, ana
the lady screamed and cried murder. Does
| not know what was done inside Then
one or two women put the man tBehan)
out who was bleeding at the forehead as he
came out Then little girl came to the door and
said. con pa, what made you do that? you have
| killed hn'' Then one Of the women struck
her lick and made her hush, About dark saw
three men take the badly wounded man down
| Stairs Witness was on a gallery on the other
/ sid he ma a
| shirt, very bloody-1fterwards put on another.
{Witness was then taken to the prisoners cell aid
stated that prisoner looked very much like
| one who had gone down and washed the bloOS.
OFF, The man whom they put out was tolerab y
1 fair-reddish hair. The house from where ,e
/ sew it was across the yard from the gallery.
| Mover saw them until they were scuhllng and try-
iDg to hit one another.
VIM Mcdonnell, sworn. says-B0ards in Behan's
house, between Thalia and Erato. After coming
home from work, laid down. Mrs. Behan and her
sister were in the room when witness Wok9 II. up;
They woke witness up. They were crying heard
prisoner say 81 II be Cd id if hayn't stood
that long enough, he hit Inc first Mackn was
leaning against the bed Mrs. Behan then SAID :
.tMacku Is cut for God sake go and get cab"
Witness then went to Aldckn aud said: Tins
man is dying" Witness then went to Mrs. Rely
room and staid ten minutes, and then came back
into Mackin's room Macknwa laying DOM and
Mrs. RI was washing up the blood a lot Of per
sons were standing around the door. Behan had
gone to his room. Heard from Mrs. B. that both
Behan and Mackin were drunk. Behan was fight
ing when he Mcdonnell, woke up Mackin was
doing nothing. Witness asked when he woke up
| '.=hat Kind Of work is this" tThey Mackin and
Behan, had had difficulty betore). Witness
recognized blood knife lying on the table, as
having been used about the house.
4 John Bennett sworn, s&y--First saw Thomas
Behan sitting in chair on the gallery: did not
speak to him; went into the house and saw
: Mackin lying on his back, his hands smeared and
bloody; some one said he was still alive Mrs.
e. came in and said: - For Gods sake, go get a
! cab' Bob Rely went After it came. she told
witness to take Mackin to the hospital. Cab
: driver also came up stairs, who said he did not
I care about taking him; finally, after studying
about it, said he would take him for So, il some
one else would go along. When three of the
party had carried him down, officer LaWler came
up aud said the man was dead and to carry him
back.
. David Manoney sworn-Says he went to Behan's
I about O'Clock and inquired for board. BehaL
G told witness to ask his wife She said there was
q room for witness, and took from witness $5-G
: weeks board in advance. She then said, Mackr
is dead-somebody stabbed him." Went in the
/ next room to see him, and came down stairs ant
met officer LaWlOr.
t Mrs Reilly sworn-Say1 she saw Mackin and Be
+ han come in together-both apparently 10 liquor
= Knew no lll-feeling to exist between the two men
q Mackin drank pretty hard but was not quarrel
d some Heard nothing until Behan was killed.
| Robert Harkess, sworn sayS-Boards with IhOs
Behan. Saw Mackin standing, and Mcdonald lying
in bed; passed to his room and heard Behan come
j. | now. Heard no more until Jane Burns came in
:, and asked witness to interfere. Witness declined
because they were drinking, and witness nigh
, get himself in trouble. Soon after, she came
d again, and said, For Gods sake, come and try te
a get Barney away Told her again would not in
k terfere. Very after that heard them scutttt
n in the room and heard one OF them fall. Wltnes!
: | opened the door and saw man lying on the
floor; saw Behan on the gallery, near the door
}. saw Mrs. Burns in the room; did not see Mrs
1t Behan,
: Mrs. Barnes sworn-says does not know tina
2 Macldn was quarrelsome man-Was not 81
o about the house. Witnass was not in the room a
" the time of the killing. Does not know anything
about her sisters affairs; never bothered about it
3 Does not know whether there had been any quar-
4 rel between them. Mackin came up stairs aaea
= of her husband. Mcdonnell was in the room a
l. the time of the killing asleep on the lounge He
brother and Mackin were fighting and she receive
= a stroke over the head aud went out and did no
II come back. Had no idea who did the deed Doe
:, not know whether the was stabbed in til
re house or not. Saw blood on the gallery a larg
lot on the floor Of the room. Saw nobody with
knife. She cried out once. Saw no blood bet0r
s. she lefttheroom. Did notsee any blood on the foo
before her sister came in. Mr. Mackin struck first
I'd She was askedto toput this man, Mackin, tob bed Th
at first thing she noticed was, he would not lie dowr
= He wanted to 60 out. Her brotler-in-law cam
le in. Then she called Hardness. Called Mcdonnell
i'll Was not in the room when Mackin fell. Went owe
to her fathers fifteen minutes after she saw tn
body wounded. (Witness subsequently admitte
that she did not go out of the house, that is, OF
,e of the yard) Does not remember standing in tn
> door SO as to have to get out of the way when tn
rs body was carried down. Did not leave the hous
~ to go to her fathers. (Here she was reminde
le thai she had sworn to having gone over to he
of father's.)
u 81 Policeman Lawler, sworn, says-About 62O VIZ
ds told Mackin was dead. Went up the stairs an
ne saw Mackin was dead, Coming out of the roon
saw Behan making his way down stairs. Place
him in arrest No one in the house seemed
know anything about the killing. Took Beho
and locked him up. When Behan was going
on the station witness asked how the difficulty o.
cured. Hereplied some paid their board dands son
70 didn't; that he wasn't going to stand it,; tn
80 =. Mackin struck him first, and that he would k
et any Cd id man whe imposed upon him. w
ne s. had known the deceased for eight or nil
o. years and knew him to be peaceable, har
working man.
rs The finding of the coroners jury upon Il
" above evidence will be given tomorrow at
o'clock.
Id, Recorders' Courts.
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cases which came before Recorder Ahern "
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