The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-25
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kEPORT0RIAL BREYITIBS.-The temperature.
yesterday, as shown by the thermometer st c..
streets, was as follows: At A. NJ, so de-
grees at IL NJ, Sc; at p. NJ. So; at G
P. NJ, So.
To-morrow's number Of the Weekly Mercury
ticles.
The ladies' fair at Masonic Hall will be con.
tinued to-day and this evening. A lunch at noon
and concert and auction at night are portion
OF the attractions.
The controller sells to-day at noon contracts
for farming the revenues of the Beef Market
Ninth Street Market, Second and Fourth Districts
Markets. Also, fer laying a banq1ette around
hellar's Market, on Felicity street,
EXTENSIVE FRB.-At halfpast IL O'Clock, a
hre has Just broken out in the United States bond
ed warehouses of hessrs. G. s. Matteson 4 Co., in
the square bounded by Poydras, Lafayette, New
Levee and Fulton streets. The warehouses are
composed OF four four-story brick buildings, Nos.
50, 81, SO and 81 New Levee street. extending
through to Front street. and filed to repletion
with whisky, held in bond by the United States
revenue department. The fire originated in the
building No. 81, and was beyond doubt the work
OF an incendiary. At the time we write every
one of the four buildings are in conaagratiou; the
cutters are all aglow with the flaming fluid, and
the fremen are strenuously laboring to overcome
the hames, which are spreading to the Wabash
warehouse, Nos 80 and 95 Old Levee street, on
one side, and another warehouse, which is sup
posed 10 contain large quantity Of coal oil. Nos.
10, 81 and SO on the side nearest Poydras street.
TRIAL FOR MURDER.-In the First District
Court yesterday, Judge Howe presiding, Mitchell
Catcher, negro soldier, of the 9th United States
colored cavalry, was tried for the murder ofLizze
Alexander, a coloTed woman. The deceased was
an inmate of a brcthel, kept by q negress known
as Lucinda Clark. There was in the house another
colored woman who the prisoner was in the habit
Of visiting. This woman had quarrel with an
other inmate of the establishment, Sally Water.
ms and baro nd hia mt fair
Catcher took pistol from an armoir, put it in his
bosom and returned to the room where Sally
Waterman was. She said something to the effect
that whatever she had said to Catcher's woman
was right, and if anybody did not like it they
could take il out Of her." Catcher rose from the
seat he had taken, and observing IL don't like it,"
drew the pistol, pointed il toward Waterman,
fired, and the shot missing her hit Lizzie Alexan.
der in the back of the neck, injurng the verte.
bT9, and she died OF the wound four days after.
Catcher, finding that he had missed Waterman,
cooked the revolver again, put it to her head and
pulled trigger, but the cap only exploded.
The defense, which was conducted by the
Nessrs. Morel, was that the shooting was acci-
dental, and it was in evidence. that the deceased
had said so herself.
The attorney general combatted the inference
sought TO be dedneed from this fact, and argued
that her statement was TO be interpreted as signi
fyipg that she knew the prisoner had not intended
to shoot her, but that did not acquit him of his
malicious intention, nor did it abate the crime.
He had intended to murder one woman, but hap
pened 10 kill another, and in killing Lizzie Alex
aBder be was IS guilty Of murder equally as much
as II he had killed Sally Waterman. The attorney
general exhorted the jury not to be influenced by
any feeling of tenderness in the case, bat to do
exact justice. This was the fourth case tried in
this court since last Monday week, in which col
ored women had been murdered by black men,
with savage cruelty, and unless those negroes who
60 about armed with deadly weapons, and seem
to think no mere of shooting colored women than
if they were shooting blackbirds are not punished,
there will be no security for society.
After brief charge from the judge, the case
was given to the jury at three O'Clock. At half
past six they brought in verdict Of guilty with
out capital punishment.
in the case Of Jules Dehonde, informed against
Charles Eugene commissioned him TO sell, the dis.
trict attorney entered noHe proseQ,6.
sTRANGE AND PROBABLE FATAL ACCIDENT
Yesterday evening about O'Clock. while Mr..
PANEL J. Driscoll, constable of the First Justices
Court, was riding oydras street, near Baronne,
The poor animal was instantly killed. Mr. Driscoll
wGs badly crushed by the horse falling upon him,
besides being cut across the right temple. He
picked mp In an nsensible condition, and after
having his wounds dressed by DR.. Homberger, he
was conveyed 10 the Charity Hospital. His case
is isreported as hopeless.
The BAKER INvEsTIGArIoN.-The committee
charged with the investigation of charges pre-
feued against the street commissioner and two
deputies, met last evening. Messrs. Gauche, Jou-
bert ard Marie being present. Owing, however,
10 the absence of Mr.. Stokes, an important wit
ness, the continuance of the investigation was
postponed 10 Wednesday evening, at half.past 5
O'Clock p. NJ.
A CoRRECTIoN.-1here was a misstatement in
our local column yesterday, which We hasten
TO correct: J. Quinlan was arrested at the in
stance Of MIR. J. Posey for cutting his own wife,
Mrs. Quinlan. with a knife; and not, as reported
by Us, for cutting Mrs. Posey, who was utterly
obliyious Of bloodthirsty intent on the part OF
Quinlan towards any human being, or even of
QuiDlan's very existence.
SWORN IS.-Gsspard ]. Schneider, the newly
appointed lieutenant of police, was yesterday
upon the duties of his Office. Lieut. w. H. Man
ming, in assuming the command of the demoral-
lied Fourth District police, will have quite task
before him; but il is not presuming 10 advance
that his intelligence and resouteness and his
sense of justice will smooth the way for him, TO
the benefit Of the community at large. Lieut..
Manning might with great proprety, thereafter,
be sent TO reconstruct other districts.
DARING AND EXTENSIVE BURGLARY.-Thurs-
day night most daring burglary was committed
in the cigar store of Messrs. Fernandez Via, at
the corner of Royal and Customhouse streets.
The burglars, for there must have been several,
obtained an eDtrance into the restaurant Of Mr..
Philip Forget, next door, now under seizure,
through the sides Of the show case on Royal
street, which are glass shutters instead of
fixed psHes, and went to work cutting
a hole fully three feet square through the
three brick all dividing the restaurant from the
rear ofce of the cigar store; they then proceeded
to blow up the safe of Messrs Fernandez Villa,
from which they extracted the following about
5000 in gold, $3.50 in greenbscks from $1,000 to
$500 in city currency, Havana lottery ticket No.
1855, for $3.50, almost entire fraction of a Mad.
rid lottery ticket. and several fractions of Havana
lottery tickets all prizes, which had been cashed
by the concern.
The following promissory notes were also
taken: One, No. for s3l5 55 dated July IL.
1867, due January Is. 1868; one, No. 3, for $500,
received on account 500, dated July IL, due DO
tober l. 1867 one, No. 4, for $780, dated July IL,
due lst November. 1867; one, No. 5, for $3.50,
dated July II, due lst December, 1867; one, No.
6, for $3.50, same date, due lst February. 1867;
one, No. Z. same amount and date, due lst
March, 1868; one, No. 8, same amount and
date. due lst May, ls6s and one for $3.50 55,
dated same day, due 1st June, 1865.
sll drawn by s. Felis of Mobile. 10 the order of
Fernandez Villa, payable at the Mobile Savings
Bank in Mobile, and check No. no. for 500,
dated January 22, drawn by l.. F. Generes, Esq,
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