New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-10

charged, there being no specific charge
against them. M.
Judge Durell, Of the United States Dis
trict Court, will probably not render any
decision in the 0pelousas Railroad case IN
til the return of Mr.. Billings, one of the
plaintiffs attorneys, from Washington.
Yesterday forenoon the residence of James
Young, near the corner of Rousseau and
Eighth streets, was entered by unknown
parsons and robbed of valuables and small
sum of money. They effected an entrance
through a rear window. tt IS
H. L. Meade complains that he was as
sailed by two unknown men, on the steam
boat landing, at late hour Tuesday night,
and robbed of $500 in money and draft on
the Bank of America. He can give no de-
scription Of the persons. ssV'
Farrell Burns was arrested last night with
a bundle of clothes-check linen pants and
coat, four linen shirts, black vest, two pill
low slips and 90 rs in his possession, all of
which is supposed to have been stolen yes
terday out of some house. 6..
fruiterer in Dryades market had a
pocket.book containing ninety.four dollars
stolen from him in a neighboring coffee
house, onTuesday night. He had laid iton
the counter and gone off forgetting ii. Be
fore he returned to get it two boys who had
been playing billiards in the room had
snatehed it up and run away.
Pollard's "Lost Causen was offered in
evidence yesterday before the Third JUS
tees Court to prove the date when Kirby
Smith surrendered to Candy, and when
the war closed. This in order to take the
benefit of an act of the Legislature of 1862
interruptiug prescription till several years
after the close of the war.
Delsey Williams was examined yesterday
before Recorder Becker on charge of man,
slaughter, in producing, 1t is alleged, the
death Of child by assault and battery on
another woman with whom she was fighting.
The accused was discharged.
OF the three colored men arrested on sus-
picion of having murdered Michael Bradley,
driver of Barracks car, and his son, last
Saturday night, one appears to have been
innocent. Another, August Brown, says he
knows the facts, and has intimated that the
third, Samuel Smith, is the guilty party.
smith has made no Acknowledgements. Yes
terday six policemen-four on horses-were
sent out to search for further evidences in
the matter,
Hendrick Meyer was arrested yesterday
on charge of rape preferred by Mr.. Wine
kleman. The affidavit, made before Mr..
Thomas A. Menzies, affidavit clerk of
Recorder Becker's Court, states that the
crime was committed on the person of Bar.
bara Lewis, child eight years old, at the
house of Mr.. WinckIeman, near the fire.
mems burying ground. The child is now
under treatment at the Charity Hospital.
Some weeks ago murder was committed
in Caddo parish under circumstances of
peculiar atrocity, and the criminal escaped,
and it was believed fed to this city. At all
events the police have been on the lookout
for him, and last night Officer Metz met a
man on the steamboat landing whom he be.
lieved to be the person sought for. He at.
tempted to arrest him but the man resisted.
and striking the officer violent blow set off
at full speed down the Levee. He was
| closely followed and shot fred at him.
but he eluded the chase. and finally disap.
peared in some of the intricate windings of
Barracks street and its dives.
Some time during Tuesday night some
unknown person attemted to set fire to tie
residence of Mr.. Killaln, on st. Ann street,
by putting lighted kindling under the rear
gallery. 1t seems that the family had re.
tired, but the smoke was observed and the
family aroused. The fire was extinguished
without material damage. 1t is the second
time the attempt has been made within
month. Mr.. Killain, communicating the
fact to Captain Bradley, stated that he could
not conceive who would attempt to do him
such an injury.
The release of the five men known as the
Chicago thieves by Judge Collens yeste5..
day was unexpected to the police authori-
ties. Neither the Superintendent of Police
| nor the chief of detectives were notified to
appear before the court in its consideration
of the case on writ of habeas corpus. Had
they been notified, the prisoners might not
have been discharged. There is altogether
too much sympathy for supposed criminals
our courts.
Barbara Rice, little girl only eight years
old, was brought to the hospital last Satur-
day night by William Winkleman, sexton of
cemetery near the Firemen's Burying
Ground. A rape was committed upon the
child by a man named Henrick Meyer, lately
in the employ of said Winkleman. Yester-
day the culprit was arrested and safely
lodged in jail.
Last night the driver of the halEpast ten
o'clock car on the Canal street line was
thrown forward over the front railing as he
was stopping the car at the intersection of
Canal and Franklin streets. His exclama-
tons were sorrowful and such as 90 my
God the car has run over me !" 1t appears
by our Charity Hospital report that he was
severely injured and that he was conveyed
there about midnight. This reporter heard
his cries from the corner of Canal and
| Irene streets.