New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-22

FIRST DIsTRICT.-Thc case of James N. Coiey,
late chief clerk in Recorder Aherns office, accused
Of embeZzlng the fines collected i'll said Office,
and money and other property of parties accused
awaiting examination, came up for investigation
yesterday. Recorder Ahern being a witness eX-
cused himself, and Recorder Gastinel presided in
his place The accused waived an examination,
and by request of his counsel, Capt. Clark, the
papers sent before the First District Court.
Recorder Gastinel declined to name the amount of
bail, because he had not heard The evidence, and
could not therefore determine the sum involved in
the prosecution. An application for bail was made
to Judge Abel, who fixed it at $1,000. Jules FIRE.
mont, arrested as an accessory To the alleged
crime Of Mr.. Cottey, discharged upon the sug-
gestion OF Recorder Ahern, who did not think the
prosecution against him could be maintained.
The following cases came before Recorder
AheTn. upon his resuming his seat:
Nathaniel Booth alias John Mulvey, accused of
assault and battery upon the person of Police
Officer Gaffney, and tearing his uniform while in
the execution of his duty was discharged, Mr..
Gaflney having withdrawn the prosecution.
William Lacas and Bob Hardness were sent be.
fore the First District Court to he tried tor picking
the pocket of John Egan of eight dollars in money
and some valuable papers. The original charge
was highway robbery, but it was shown that Egan
was intoxicated when the property was taken
from him, and that no violence was used other
than was necessary to abstract his pocketboOk
from his pocket. Hence the accusation was modi-
fed to larceny.
Robert Knox and VIM. Gass, negroes, are to be
examined To-day on charge OF stealing valise
containing sl8S, sGme papers and clothing, from
another c0lqred man, named VIM. King, on Thurs.
day.
A charge against Nathaniel Bootk alias John
Mulvey, of stealing buggy and the seat of a new
wagon, both valued at sixty dollars, ON the night
of the I'd inst. from liz front of the premises of
Daniel Block, No. 26l Perdido street, whose pro.
perty the articles said TO have been stolen were
Wps examined, and the evidence failing in any
manner whatever toiimplicate the prisoner in the
larceny, he was discharged
The complaint AGAINST Mr.. Abraham Harris Of
an assault and battery on colored man named
Pierre Mesnard wasdismisFed, the prosecutor not
appearing.
Upon the affidavit of Mr.J R. Carroll, No. 424
Royal street, that he was informed a boy named
Augustus Beiss, an inmate of the Orphans Home
in the Fourth District conducted himself in dis
orderly and violent a manner that the ladies in
charge OF the institution we're unable TO control
him, the recorder sent the boy to the House OF
Refuge, where severer discipline may improve
him.
Jonathan Cooper, soldier of the 9th Colored
United States Ca3alry, arrested for having re.
yoIVer concealed on his person, was reBanded to
the military authorities
i Cora Harris, Matte Banks, Margaret Damford
and Adelaide Sedemant, all coloFad harrsdans
were sent to the WorkhGuse for four months.
Catherine Carey, for drunkenness and 0bsGenity
On the Streets Syas sent for sixty days aud Robf
McDonad, found asleep in a car on ST. Charles
street, for thirty days. s.sz =5r..-..-,.
Charles Williams colored, Charles Fisher and
NJ. Weaver, cab drivers, for leayiBgs their cabs