New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-06
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1866.


law shows her talons too visbly and one had
rather not remain there for permanent thing.
1t wasin this place that we happened to meet
friend who had made the criminal branch of law
his study. We endeavored to speak upon general
subjects, but the conversation was failure
Your thoughts were imprisoned also, and you
could not get beyond the prison CRIME.
q The first time | ever entered this place" said
my friend, was to see young man, gre-t
many years ago, who was put here by wealthy
father for leaving home without permission. He
was actually kept here during year"
" Was that your first case q
"No. My first case was given me by German
lady who could not speak word of English. She
had received letter here from relation telling
her to come to this city and take possession OF an
estate that had just been bequeathed to her by
wealthy relative. The party who wrote to her,
upon her arrival, could not be found. The rela-
tive, it was true, had died, with no knsman near
him, but no evidence of her supposed wealth
could be found His administrator knew nothing
of it whatever. And SO the matter remains open
to conjecture to this day"
"But that was not your last case"
| "Shortly after was employed to see if anything
could be made out of statement Of facts sworn
to by an old woman, and which had happened many
years before It was an action for unjust and ille
gal imprisonment, in which it appeared that she
had been kidnapped and brought TO this city, and
detained in the attic of private house for q num-
ber of years, without the power of escape It
was only by the accidental burning of the house
that she ever did obtain her freedom. Those were
the facts. But the matter remains undecided to
this day-she died before the trial came on for a
hearing
"Apr0pos of female clients, let me tell you an
instance of depravity that surpasses anything
have ever met with yet. 1t is about mother who
was accused of some grave charge, and had EN-
ployed me to defend her The evidence, when the
time for trial came on, looked SO damnatory that
felt 10th to appear in the case before court. MY
, client noticed my hesitation Asking for private
{ consultation at the door, she pointed to modest
looking beautiful girl, who had been seated by hel
side. That is my daughter said she. There
: was no need of inquiring as to her meaning. Ide
E cEned to have anything whatever to do with thu
2 case. Since that time her mother has compelled
. her to support her by living an abandoned life
, To my certain knowledge she was SO beaten am
and cruelty treated that there was no other escap
i for her until the latter grew old and coars
n enough to effect her release. ! still frequent.
o see her at the police courts"
l., There were many other incidents drawn fror
his own experience which, perhaps, it might
of interest to relate, as truth, after all, surpasse
. the inventions of fiction. But we have explaine
- our point and perhaps, at some future da
" some of our criminal pleaders may add to OF
~ literature by volume of causes celebres whie
have been tried under their own observation. II
T., records Of our criminal tribunals are certainly n
silent.