New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-07
APPROPRIATE ADDRESSES MADE,
LAwLEssEBss TO Be REBUKED.
A RepreBsnsible Practice Condemned.
VHRDICTOFTHECO ECOROEER's JURY.

The funeral yesterday afternoon of Po-
licemRn Gebhard, who was shot on st.
Charles street, Thursday evening, by
William, Blevins, was attended by three
hundred and sixty-eight policemen, and
large body of the German Turner'S. The
procession moved from ths.Turners' Hail,
corner of Customhouse and Galvez streets,
where the body of the deceased awaited |
removal to Its place of ,nserment. The
funeral procession was here augmented by
the Turner'S, who turned out numerously,
carrying stands of colors, and preceded by
Jaegsr's brass band. Followed by car
riages with mourners, the line passed
through Galvez, Benville, Rampant and
Canal streets to Greenwood Cemetery,
where the remains were deposited in their
final resting place.
Appropriate addresses. were made by
Recorder Becker and by Mr. Pfaff, of the
Turner's Society.
The appearance of this funeral eortegs
was impressive and solemn. Nearly four
hundred stalwsrt and intelligent policemen,
each one of them prepared, if need be, to
sacrifice his own life ia,the performance Of
his duties to the public, and each lamenting,
the cruel necessity Of following to the toxb
one of the police force who was conspicuous
for his fidelity as an officer, and was never
offensive in his manners, and peaceable to.
citizens or even to aggressors of the laE.
The reflection must have been painful to
this body of policemen that any one of their
number was liable to the same sudden death
as befell their late comrade; but all mus t.
then have nerved themselves to the determi-
nation to do their duty regardless of Oonse-
| quences.
In carriages of the procession we OBJ
served the Superintendent of Police, Cap
tain Cain the ex-Superintendens, Major
| Williamson; the Captains of Police and
several prominent citizens.
The Germans lament the untimely and
violent death of one of their own asso-,
ciates, and their sympathies are now MOI 3
than ever with the masses of law-abiding
citizens who yield ready obedience to'ga.
presentatiEes Of the law and never counsel
resistance 10 it. To them this funeral vas
most impressive, and they will long cherish
the memory Of the lamented G8bhard.
The days Of strife should now cease
in this community. The whole power
of the, press and the whole influence
of the business men and good citizens
of the Crescent city should con-
denim that lawlessness which has dis
turbed the public peace, and that threatened
resistance to the administrators of law
which is drifting our people into the
dangerous seas of anarchy and disorder.
Instead of associations Of real estate
owners to resist the payment of just taxes
lawfully assessed for the support of
legitimate, economical and prudent State
Government, it twould be wiser to form an
association pledging each one of its mem
bers TO discourage the reprehensible and
dangerous practice of carrying reVolvers,
the use Of which in an angry or intoxicated
mans hands Ia iraught with horror, and has
added many names 10 the criminal calender
of men who otherwise would never have
taken the life Of a human being.
But for this custom, which ought no
longer to be tolerated, poor Gebhard would
not have been murdered on st. Charles
street the other evening, aud the still more
unfortunate Blevins would not now be
before the courts in the attitude Of a
criminal whose terrible deeds have plunged
his own family and the relatives OF the
murdered man in deepest grief.
The Coroner, yesterday, held an inquest
on the body Of Gebhard, and Officers
Wyatt, GarVin, Hoolyhan and other wit
nesses were examined. Their evidence
adds but little to the account of the affair
that we have already published, except as
tending to show by whom the deed was
committed.
From their evidence, it appears that the
pistol was snapped four times at Officers
Garvin and Wyatt before the killing was
actually committed. Officer Garvin saw
the pistol actually discharged in the hands
of Blevins.
A verdict was rendered that the deceased
came 10 his death from wound inflicted
with pistol in the hands of William Blev-
ins, the evening Of the fifth instant
The examination of William Bleyins for
the murder Of Frank Gebhard, before Re-
corder Becker, :s :s sxed @ ie fer the seventeenth
instant. The charge against him was made
by Officers John Williams and Michael
Gavin, who arrested him on the night OF
the murder. The affidavit against him is
signed by these officers, who charge Blew.
ms with shooting Gebhard with pistol
without cause or provoeation, the act being
pronounced murder in the affidavit
BleVins is confined in the Parish Prison.
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