The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-30
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Hebrew Benevolent Association, at the Deutscle
Company Hall, TO morrow at II NJ. We are in.
debted to Mr.. Waheimer, secretary, for an invita-
ton TO be present on the occasion.
Two colored men, suspected of an intention to
steal pontoon boat, were arrested by the river
police on Thursday.
By order of Gen. Buchanan, the New Orleans
Gas Light Company is relieved from the operation
ef en- order of Major General Banks, of March
l5 1864, restraining it from paying dividends upon
its stock to A. McWilliam, holder of "a shares.
This order applies to all dividends which have &C.
crued to Mr.. McWilliam or his heirs since the I'd
day of April ls66.
The temperature yesterday, as shown by The
thermometer at @. Duhamers, corner Bienville
and Chartres streets, was as follows At 6 A. N.
"A degrees; l2A.s9: BPM $50: 6P.x.s4.
There are rumors that Gen. Buchanan's proc.
iamation OF the result of the recent election may
be expected to-day.
The attendance at the tournament on the Fair
Grounds today will doubtless be immense. To
many who may have been hitherto deferred from
attending through spprehensions of being obliged
70 ride tbither. in a crowded car. We xould say
that in each car conductors, who collect fa.e are
stationed, and only so many passengers are-~d.
mitfed as may be comfortably accommodated. A
number OF cars from other lines have been tenn
pOrarily put upon the Espsnade street route,
thus fully meeting the recent demand.
vii lam Reilly, supposed to be one Of those
boys who make prac ice of stealing newspapers
10 sell from beneath doors. after the carriers
have delivered them, was brought before Recorder
Gastinel yesterday, upon the complaint Of Justice
COens, at whose office, on Exchange Place,
tLefis of the sort have been repeatedly commit
ted of late, and was sent to Jail to await an ex-
animation.
Last night gentleman attending the perform
auce at the Academy of Mosic lost very valu-
able gold sleeve button, which was found and re.
turned 10 him by Mr.. Green, one Of the ushers of
the Academy, to whom he mas requested Us to
tender his thanks.
Mayor Heath has requested the heads of diff
feTent departments under his control TO grant
leave of absence to-day to those employees who
may desire to attend the exercises at the Chal-
mette Cemetery. The steamer Ella Morse and
the cutter Wilderness are TO be in waiting at noon
at the head of Canal street, to convey the visitors
thither.
Four hundred and thirty nine thousand five hun
dPed and sixty seven dollars and twenty i've cents
in city notes was destroyed by the finance com.
mittee at the gas works on Thursday.
CHARGE OF ROBBING A SUCC ssIoN Recorder
LetteD yesterday closed lengthy investigation of
charge against Mr.. Schwarm, who keeps a
coffee house at the POrtmarket, of surreptitiously
obtaining posse ;sion of bank box belonging to
julius H. Cohen, butcher, who died on the llth
February last. There was no proof whatever to
substantate the complaint and the prosecution was
dismissed. Mrs. Cohen, the widow of the deceased
merely supposed that the box contained forty or
fifty thousand dollars in greenbacks, whereas
the porter of the bank who saw il opened by
Cohen in the bank, about two months before he
died, said it contained documents which appeared
TO be mOrtgsged paper. The suspicion seems to
have rested upon Mr.. Schwarm, from the circum-
stance that the deceased had intrusted him with
the care of box supposed to contain a eerti6-
cate from the bank OF the deposit of the bank
box in question, but there was no proof of the
fact the key of the box intrusted TO Schwarm
was found in Mr. Cohen's pocket when he died
the box was given up by Mr.. Schwsrm TO Mrs
Cohen the day after the funeral, and
the box, the porter testified, was taken
out on tbe day Of the death by some well dressed
man, not Mr.. SchWarm. Besides, several wit
Desses who knew the deceased intimately, thought
the idea absurd that he was so wealthy as Mrs.
Cohen thought he was, and testified that he was
one of those thrifty men who invested money on
interest as fast as he made II. II was also in evi-
denee that there were occasional differences be-
tween the deceased and his wife, that led him to
place his valuables out OF her reach.
BURGLARY.-The grocery store of C. Kaiser,
corner Of Columbus and Robertson streets, was
entered by thieves early yesterday morning, and
robbed of thirty bottles CT whisky, three dozen
boxes of sardines. silver watch and a quantity
of clothing, all valued at $500.
SHOOTING AFFRAY.-Two colored inmates of a
house of ill-fsme, No. l29 Basin street, named
Emma Barnes and Caroline Palmer, while intoxi.
Gated, became engaged in a quarrel yesterday
afternoon the termination of which was that the
latter shot the former with horse.pistol IN the
right hand and in both thighs, wOunding her dan
gerously. She was arrested forthwith, while
Emma was sent to the Marine Hospital.
Run OvER.-The half past four O'Clock train on
the Jackson railroad, yesterday. ran over and
killed an emplOye of the road, John 0'Sullivan,
who had fallen asleep on the track while awaiting
the departure Of the train, and was not discovered
by the engineer in time to allow the wheels to be
reversed.
FRsT DISTRICT CoURT-.Judge Holoe-Mdy 29.-
John b. Fitzpatrick James Cunningham and
Thomas Dieby were tried upon an information,
containing three counts. viz: lst assault with in
tent to rob I'd, kidnapping; Sd, assault and bat
terry. A man named 0'Neil was informed against,
as being a party to the alleged offenses but he
was never under arrest and, therefore, was not
on trial.
Fitzpatrick Cunningham and O'Nen were de.
positors in Jacob Barker's Bank of Commerce
at the time it failed Fitzpatrick to the amount of
$40, and the other two several hundreds of dol
lars each. Their inability to get their money or
any part of il seems TO have exasperoted them to
such degree that they attempted to frghten
Mr.. Barker into the payment of it. His evidence
was TO the following effect:
He was born, he sad in l779, and is therefore
eighty-nine years of age. Onth 18th March last,
between six and seven O'Clock in the morning. as
be was going from barber shop on st. Charles
street TO his residence on Felicity street, he met
Fitzpatrick, Cunningham and Neil, near Felicity
street. They took him by the arms and led him
into a cab, of which he thought Digby was the
driver, but was not positive. The witness asked
no questions and made no resistance. They
drove out Felicity street and the Washington
shell road, passed the Halfway House, and con-
veyed him back Of the Metsirie track. There
they took him out of the cab and made him walk
about quarter of mile into the swamp. The
driver took no active part in what was done, and
in the cab no threats were made, nor was any vio-
lence offered 10 the witness, except that, they
we're going out, one Of them, Cunningham, be
thought, observed to the witness that he would
neYer see New Orleans again.
As Cunningham, owen and Fftzpatrfck were
conducting him into the swamp, after leaving the
cab, with which the driver remained, Cunning
h. m ran ahead with rope in his hand O0e Of
the others told him to halt, and not go quite so
fast Cunningham replied that he was going TO
the highest tree that could be found. They had
"a cnu Iftla and fallar firnhnr