New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-11-07
Personal Security in the BSacIf Part of the
Pnrlsh-. Return TO Inc olAem Time.


The days Of highway robbery have not alto
gether gone out of date. Novel readers who
delight in the portrayals of crime need no longer
turn back to the times OF Claude DuYal, JACK
Sheppard or Murre. Yankee Bill (Wm. Burton) |
and Larry Collins have been sent before the First
District Court to answer for the robbery upon the
highway of Judge Duyignaua and pedder OF |
the name of Gustave Kahn, and until their trial |
comes on they can amuse sthemselves like MIR. |
Answ0rths hero, in carving their names upon the
prison walls. We have alluded to this case be-
fore when the parties were first arrested, but by
| way of showing that the GENTLY ROAD IS as
| rood a locality for the commission OF dark
| deeds as those of which more has been written,
we quote some of the evidence. Ruc0Rte2G'S may
| now GsDense with Italian bandits, and solitary
| horsemen may be made effective nearer at hand.
The blood and thunder stories Will nave to be re-
| valnped or be Reconstructed to admit Of new
| scenery and characters. But to the evidence
| which was taken before tecOFutE IIetltu oi IAe
| Third District:
Gllstaoe Kahn, s,r0rn-Whle on the GENTLY
road, On his way to the city, lie was met ny the
two accused, Burton and COlins,) who were rid
ing in a wagon, and who inquired Of hnAathe dis
lance from where they were to Louis Hesteer's
plantation. Upon his giving them the direction,
they proceeded on their way for short dis
lance, but subsequently returned and overlook
him Barton tiIeu jumped down from his
wagon and cried in Il rough voice Where
are you going, you id Jewish son Of b-h?
Give me your money OF your life and satting the
action TO the word, seized his (hahn.S) coat
, pocket, in which was the proceeds ut his sales.
Burton then called Oh Collins To assist him. in con-
sequence OF the resistance le Kahn offered, and
when Collins came up he seized him from behind,
and both threw him down. Collins then tODk him
by the throat, while Burton put his hand over his
(K&nn's) mouth, 50 as to prevent him from cry
ing out, and they then rled his other coat pocket
in which was SIS, which he mad taken OUT iol
i change A German named Peter Bieher coming
: up to lis rescue, Burton and his companion made
Y off with the money. The witness in the court
room identified iWm. Burton and Harry Collins as
hIn1b +bn Of a ct M
Peter BieSe2er StrOTn-Witness met both OF the
n accused, Wm. Burton and Harry Collens, going
I; down the Gentily road in wagon at about two
i and half miles from the Pontchartrain railroad
- where it crosses the Gentilly road About tht
same time, also met Gustaye Kahn going dow1
5: the same road. When at about half a block dis
lance, looked back, and saw that Burton has
alighted from his wagon and was holding Kahn ..
the throat. At the same moment saw Harry Col
r lius jump down from the wagon and seize kahl
n from behind and then both threw him down am
:, beat him When they had thrown Kahn on tn
10 ground Collins put his knee on his (kahns) neck
p and Burton one hand stopping his mouth, an
e with the other searching his pocket Kahn stu
fe holding one of his pockets, Collins attempted
'e9 make him let go by kicking his hand severa
~ times -,
while on his way to hisapantaton, upon the Ger
lie tilly Road he saw a man defending himself with
stick against another one, and that the latter part
y was William Burton. AS soon as the party WI
Us was attacked, and whose name was Kahn ha
freed himself he passed on by the judge an
warned him to be on his guard against those tw
men The Judge thought nothing OF it until on
of them (Burton} came up to HIM and held
horse by the bride, Collins meanwhile getting
Ia his wagon. Burton then caught violently hold {
gun in the judges hand, and by superit
- strength wrested it from him. Subsequently Bu
M ton was induced, at the remohstraace OF thll
IA party, to return the gun to its owner.
~ The accused. as we have already Intimate
10 were sent before the First District Court.