New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-01
Recorners, e1ourta

FIRST DIsTRICT.- case of Lewis Jones,
negro, who had been under arrest several days
i upon the affidavit of Nicholas thinner, pollct
officer, charging him with having murdered an
other negro named Ernest on the afternoon of the
/ 18th ult., at the railroad bridge over Pass Man
ehae, by shooting him with a shot gun, came be
~ lcsggder Ahern on the 28th nit, who, having
been committed in fhea se. ne Sease not naylae
the accused to be placed at the sition Of t6s
| chief of police. 044 y tAAs
The chief yesterday madel the following repor
A to the recorder
q In this ease have been unable to get any evi
denee 70 substartiate this charge. The prisoner
/ has been in prison twelve days, suffering from
4 two gun-shot wounds received before he killed his
4 opponent. From his own statement he admits tic
i the killing, but pleads justification, which,
/ think. is correct. have released him and sent
| him to the freedmans hospital for medical treat
4 ment, which he needs. Z THos. E. ADAMS,
august so, 1862 NJ 4 i9HS''S
\ Revere was brought before therecorder, on
charge OF having in his possession, knowing it to
\ nave been stolen, farpaulin, valued at ninety
| dollars, and belonging TO James Comisky, taken
from the leyee on the 9th ult. The case was
fixed for the 18th inst.
James Hughes was arraigned on the complaint
of Patrick Sullivan, who alleges that on Tuesday
morning last Hughes in compliments house, on
Thalia street, assaulted him violently, seized him
by the neck and attempted to murder him by
strangulation. The charge will be examined on
A negro named Robert Washington was before
the recorder charged with stealing horse be:
longing to Edward Shea, colored, from Mr. Pr
per's place, near the Marine Hospital, on the af-
ternoon of the 9th ult,, and he was remanded to
be examined on the It'll instant.
The case of j. Robinson accused of the larceny
of the key of the premises No. 81 Front street,
which key was the property of Mr.. Geo Pearson,
now absent but represented by MFR. Henry Wins
low, who made the complaint, was examined and
dismissed.
Charles Foucher and Charles Curtis were sent
before the First District Court to be tried on a
charge of stealing five pairs of blankets valued at
s25, from on board the steamboat David White
Captain John w. FaWter, on Thursday morning
last.
The following workhouse sentences were passed:
benjamin and Harriet Parker, arrested fofrobbing
me money drawer Of r. Hackney, six months
isaac Young for vagrancy, Margaret Gordon and
Jane Coleman, lewd and abandoned women, ninety
days-Gordon being allowed the alternative Of
paying atine Of S25; Ellen Mccarthy for babitnal
INVESTIGATION, John Finlan and James Connolly for
the same offense and Catherine Thompson for
aeeping on the streets, sixty days
Fines were imposed as folloWafor other INSIDE
meanors: 4s9 a. ssF.
John Sidney, for being drunk and having a re-
volyer concealed on his person, S25; James Sharp,
Daniel 0'Keefe and Thomas Burns, for fighting
and disturbing the peace, $40 each Anna Cloud
for being drunk, S. M. w. Ford, "a. T. Smith and
j. AZ. Caldwell, also for drunkenness, 50 90 each;
Albert Lowe, for obtaining refreshments from
John Fretwel and refusing to pay for them, 50 so
John Hickey, John Powers and John Kelly, for
disturbing the peace, 81 50 each.