New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-11

covered in the store of the accused, Mr.. Bumard
having entered the premises by breaking door
with an axe. After extinguishing the fire, they
found quantities of powder on the floor, and pieces
of fuse used for lighting pipes. Mrs. Bnmard de-
scribed the various things saturated with coal OIL
as they were found the next morning by Mr, Ganu-
cheau and the gentlemen who accompanied him.
AbTahams has occupied the store four or five
months. bed and bedding, a square trunk,
quantity of hoopskirts and two stands for skirts,
had been moved out of the store during the three
or four weeks preceding the fire. Mrs. Bumard
has seen a wagon carrying away goods from the
place before the fire. Abrahams was at the store
every day two or three times. Rose was in con,
stant attendance there. He opened the store in
the morning and closed it at night.
Henry Ducatel, No. q Carondelet street, and
Mr.. Boumard made an inventory of the stock on
the morning of the 9th, at the instance Of Mr.
Ganucheau and Mr.. Adams. Their appraisement
of the stock was six hundred and fourteen dollars
Fixtures one hundred dollars.
Gustave Salvador was sitting on the steps of
Miss Kings house on Sunday night the 5th inst.
While there he saw the accused, Rose, come out
Of gate on Basin street. in his shirt sleeves, and
run toward Common street, and few minutes
after heard an explosion in the direction Rose
came from. Witness soon after entered the store
and found it as described by the preceding wit
nesses.
| William Woods was in company with Mr.. Saliva
dor, and saw man come to the gate as described
| by that witness, peep out and then run toward
Common street, in his shirt sleeves; did not know
who the man was.
Felix Boumard corroborated the testimony o.
his wife, Mrs. Julia Boumard. On the morning ot
the 9th, Mr. Boumard and Mr.. Alexander Grivot
who keeps coffeehouse at the corner of Cana
and Basin streets, arrested Abrahams and Rose
Bringing them into Mr. Grivots bar-room, the.
asked Rose why he had runaway the night before
He answered that he was afraid somebody wou,
shoot him
1t was shown that Abrahams and Rose were i
partnership in this store, but that The former gay
his chief attention to another store in the Sec0n
District. The accused were represented by Messrs
Melville, soule and Chamberlain, and the Insur
ance company by Mr.. w. w. Howe.
1t was contended that Abrahams should be dis
charged, as there was no proof from which
might be inferred that he had any concern in tn
attempt to burn the building; that there was n
i evidence directly duplicating Rose, forno oGc ha
seen the fire set on the combustibles prepared an
it was possible that some of the many negroes
the yard of the premises might have been the i
5 cendary.
T Mr. Howe replied that arson was a crime alTal
: secretly committed, scarcely ever seen by any b.
e the party committing the crime. 1t woald
h difficult however, to find a clearer case than th
There was an insurance OF $500 upon proper
worth but a little over $7o0. The insurance III
e been increased upon the application Of Abraham
!, in July. Goods were subsequently removed tro
i the establishment. Rose was seen running fro
II the building at 10 O'Clock at night, in his shi
Y sleeves. Immediately after an explosion W
N heard, the building was entered, discovered TO
e on fire, and elaborately flied with combustiI
preparations.
" The recorder decided upon sending both the
n cused before the First District Court for trial, a
Sc the case not being baiable by recorder, tl
n were committed TO jail. ~