The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-08

rent on the building, In currency or small city
noes, was referred to the finance committee.
petition from citizens of The Second District
asking for the establishment of coal landing in
the First District, between posts p and "a. Re-
ferred to the committee on streets and landings
The board then adjourned to Tuesday evening
next at 81 O'Clock.
APPOINTMENT OF JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AT
GRErNA.-The following order was issued yester.
day:
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH MILITARY DISTRICT,
New Orleans, La, Jan. I, 1865.
Special Orders No 81
t.rrRAcr)
2. John Payne is hereby appointed Justice Of
the peace for the parish Of Jefferson. at Gretna,
La, vice John r. Beals, resigned. Upon accept
ing this appointment, he will file at these head
quarters the oath prescribed by law:
By command OF Major General Hancock:
GEO. L. HARTsUFF,
Assistant Adjutsnt General
OFFICIAL: NATHANIEL BURBANK
Second Lieut. s7h Infantry Lieut. q. Army
Acting Assistant Aojutans General.
FIRE.-About II o'clock, Monday night, fire
broke out in rag shop at the corner Of Moreau
and Poland streets, owned by Julius Bramar,
frame building and household furniture next
door, owned and occupied by Henry Altman
The cause Of the fire was not ascertained. The
buildings were insured for $4,000 and $1,000, re-
spectiyely, but the insurance will not cover the
loss.
BOLD THrEF-SeUentyJfre thousand Dollars
Stolen and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT morning. at
half-past ii O'Clock, Mr.. A. Levi, a merchant at
No. SO Carondelet street, having returned from
bank with bis cash box, placed it upon his desk
and entered into conversation with some friends
near the door. While he was thus occupied
well dressed individual with an overcoat on his
arm walked by the group, and going NJ to the
desk deliberately threw his overcoa. over the
cash box, and was walking )ut again,
when he was stopped by Mr.. Levi and
Officer Connors was called in and the thief taken
to the station, where he gave his name as A. j.
Crandal. He is slender young man, about six
feet high. of light complexion, between twenty
five and thirty years DID, and elegant in his appear
ance. He is not known by the officers who have
seen him so far, but is unmistakably judged to be
an expert cracksman. The cash box contained
money, diamonds and other valuables, to the
amount of about seventy-fve thousand dollars.
The city will be full Of such characters during
the continuance of the fair; taU public should,
therefore, be on their guard.
TIE SUICIDE IN THE THIRD DIsrRIcr.-Yhe
name Of the man who committed suicide, in the
Third District, was John Casper Birutgen. He
was Prussisn, about forty years of age, without
any relatives in this city, and at the time of his
death he was living in an unfinished house, on
MOntegut street, between Rampant and Good
children streets, which he was having built.
The statement of Tilmann Joseph Linderback,
an intimate friend Of the deceased to the coroner
showed that he was in the habit of receiving re-
mittsnces from Europe Of considerable sums of
money, which it was his practice to invest in real
estate, and he was so avaricious that he stinted
the expense of his living to twenty or
thirty cents a day. Mr.. Linderback met
Alley, when be complained very despondingly, as
he bad upon several occasions previously, Of
lot having received an expected remittance
of $4,000 or SIS, 900 from Europe, and also
made some vague reference to children in
Europe. Mr.. Linderback is Of opinion that the
failure OF the remittance caused him to destroy
himself.
He was last seen alive on Sunday morning at
bakers, in the neighborhood of his residence,
where he bought some bread for his meals as was
his custom. On Monday his house being closed to
sn unusually late hour, neighbors entered and
found that he bad sbot himself 10 the center of the
forehead, with a revolver, which was lying on the
floor between bis feet. There was at first some
suspicion that he might have been killed by some
person designing to rob him, but every door and
window was fastened, and of the few articles in
the house, nothing had been disturbed. A verdict
of suicide was therefore rendered by the coroners
jury.
FIRST DISTRICT COURr-Jltdge Ro,re, Jan, 7.
Edward Walter, informed against for the larceny
of a neck chain worth 5000, two gold watches
valued at slC0 each, and several other articles OF
jewery from the premises of Edmond Ganucheau,
guilty.
On motion of the district attorney, the prosecu.
ton against John Ford for committing a rape on
Sarah Ann Stanley, in August last, and against
James O'Connor for attempting to violate the
person Of her sister, Rhoda Stanley, at the same
time, was dismissed.
Henry Williams and Lafayette Robinson,
colored men, were found guilty OF stealing a sack
Of coffee, the property Of John |. Adams Co.
Dsniel Sullivan and William Champlin were
tried for the larceny of twenty grain sacks, the
property of the United States. Sullivan was con.
yicied and Champlin was acquitted.
Nolle prosequi was entered In the case Of Will
liam Parker, colored, charged with felOniously
entering the dwelling of Peyton Lewis in the
night time.
Henry williams, colored, and Aleck Blade the
first named charged as principal, and the latter as
accessory before the fact, in the larceny OF
c ehty pounds OF coffee from John /. Adams &
Co., we're tried and convicted as charged.
RECORDER NEvILLE's CoURT.-The business in
this court was unusually dull, and besides few
drul kards and disturbers of the peace, who we're
fined in small sums as warning to pursue more
virtuous course, the following were disposed Of:
Henry Robinson, convicted Of stealing lumber
from Mr.. W. d. Gray, was sent to the Work
house for thirty days.
vagrant, named Marceln Joseph, was sent to
the institution for three times that number Of
days; and Henry Williams, thief, for sixty
days.
L. W. Burke was arraigned on the charge Of
knocking down snd'unmercifully beating his wife,
and fined five dollars.
Lizzie Burke. a ewd and abandoned woman,
was fined ten dollars, aud Joseph Buckley,
charged with being a vagrant and carrying con.
cealed weapons, was sent to the Parish Prison for
thirty days.
RECORDER GAsTINEL's COURT.-Chas. Walker,
colored, accused of stealing articles valued at
twenty-five dollars, from the premises of Louisa
Perkins, colored, on Franklin street, was exam
iDed and discharged.
Adams Clement, arrested for feloniously enter
ing the store of p. Goldstein, No. l4l Old Leyee
street, with intent TO steal, was examined. The
proof was not sufficient TO establish the guilt of
the prisoner, but was enough to show that he
does not live by honest industry, and he was SEN
fenced TO the Workhouse for six months in default
Of furnishing bond of $1,000 for his good beha-
viOr.
Mrs. Bindeck, who keeps a store at No. Ill Old
Levee street, has'been arrested upon a charge of
larceny, which, it is alleged, was committed by
h'r, in taking from Jean Louis, in her store, the
sum Of nine dollars.
A. F. Bachelor, found on the premises Of Mr.
Hswkinsworih, on Basin street, under suspicious
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