New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-10
El1e Courts,

INJUNCTION AGAINST THE BoLaD on HEALTEs.
Our readers are aware that the Board of Healtfg
at their last sitting instructed tie health officer of
the First District to proceed against the distilEsFs
and have their establishments closed unless shey
ceased dschargng their refuse matters into the
cutters. hehealth officer, DR.. Burns has notified
ths6istillersto the same effect, and threateas.to
close their dstillerTes if they do not comply with
the order. Conrad Shredder yesterday appliedto
the Fifth District Court, through his counsel,
Durant DaFpnte, for an injunction against the
president of the board and Dr. James Burns, health
officer, First District, to enoia them from the exc
cutOn of theorder referred 30, on the ground shat
it will be destructive of their business, and that
the ris,sppressive, UNJUST illegal and uncon-
stitational. The Injunction was graB3ed by Judge
Leaamont..
FIRSR D1sTRIC7 COURT.
n this court, Judge AhelI presiding Williaas
Weibell, o young man of preposssssing apReaE
anee, seemingly about twenty-five years of age,
was yesterday, tried upon an Indictment charging
him with the murder of Peter SWeit2er, by cutting
him in the belly with knife or some other sharpia-
strument, and the following jury>was irnpanelad
in she casa:.
Edgard Canonge (foreman), Ge@rge Vogslsager,
George Ker2fer, Laurence Campbell, Rasaan
Hack, j, n. Otto, L. Apifel, Andrew Nuahler,
Martin 0rGonnell, Ed. Hartnett, Michael joaquin
and William Dixon.
The prosecution was conducted By Attorney
| General AeEron, and the defense by Judge J. B.
Cotton and Colonel q. j. Goode. Ths trina con-
sumed the whole day, from the opening of the
court until nearly 81 O'Clock, when, o recess was
taken, and from half-past. A to halfRast ]. The
fwitnesses eXaminedfor the prosecution we're DR.
Yeiser, coroner and DR.. CaiRe city physician, al
the tma of he homicide, Mrs. Wise, Mrs. Shea
'.Iieu5. Sheehan, Mrs. Kaiser, A. Kresig, Mrs
Sweit2er, NJ. A. Guth, Joseph Klarr, officers Nc
IntyTe and Landry, Mrs. Louisa Unger, Me-
'EPowen ; and, for the defense, Geerge Klarr, Pete
Wolfe, Bernard zmmarmann, John Hoffman
Hehry Hoffman, Mrs. Schneider, Louis Seibert, q
BpOnsepa, R, Pryor andG. Welch.
The case was not Of such nature that the de
tails of the evidence would be- of public interest
and from the mass of testimony taken we mak
u mp the annexed abstract, embracing all the sal
ent and material fasts:
On the evening of Sunday, the 9Th of Apr
last, Swe5tzer, the deceased, came to the coffee
house os Mr.. Powell, ct the upper corner
Seventh and Tch0upitoulas streets, at the hour
, nightfalE Sweitaer, two men named BeauFegar
and one Bernard Zimmerman, were on the ba
quette in front Of the cofIeehouse when ms
> namaT Shea, who lived fsw doors further up
TchG0pitoulas street, came along, going towar
his residence. As he passed, Sweitzer put out /
> foot to trip him. Shea demonstrated with him s
. s this misbehavior, He retorted by applying
obscene epithet to Shea, and proceeding to p
Oft his coat, offered to give Shea satisfaction
u Shea told him he (Sweitzer) was drunk, ala
marked that he woud have his satisfaction in
'e morning. The alteration was ended by ZImIn
t. mann taking Shea to lis home.
y After this occurrence Switzer went into
y" cofieehouse, took OF his hat and coat and
ot them on the counter, and with the Beaurema
IS, and one A. Kresig, proceeded in the direction
er Shea's residence, which was on the third lot
Sn Tchoupitoulas street, above the colfeehor
IN Some twenty minutes interviewed between the S
alteration and the return of Swetzer to
a coteehouse, when he opened his panta looms
zen bowels werc seen protruding and he eclared
ar he had been cut. Meantime a fight had ia
we place in front of and partially in 'lacant lot,
sa- joining Shea's residence, who, it appears U
The being taken home by Zimmerman, entered
1m- gate, hut, so far as the Testimony went, was
the seen afterwards, In regard. to this fight the
the mOny vas 0iscrepant, Kresig swore positi
rsa- that 10 person was engaged in it but
IN Is bell and the diseased, His statement was