New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-19

Gerry store Thursday evening between eight
and nine o'clock, they met two colored men,
one of whom Carey struck severe blow on
the head with bottle. After taking drink
at the grocery, and while Carey, Frank Car
ter, aud Jacob Simmons were going out
Lafayette street toward the woods, when
about Q block and half from the grocery,
one shot was fred. Carter says:
"As soon as | saw the flash and heard
the shot turned round and ran into Poy-
dras street Between Bertrand and Lafay-
cite I felt the blood running down my
cheek, aud putting my hand up found had
been shot In the ear. | then went to the
corner of Bolivar and Poydras to speak to a
woman that was standing there, When Mr..
Weeder came up and tolu me that Michael
Gaze the deceased, was shot. l went and
found the deceased lying in the same spot
that We were in when fred upon; also,
about the same spot where the negro was
struck with the bottle.
Late in the afternoon yesterday, Abraham
Turner, supposed to be the colored man
struck with bottle by Carey. was arrested
at the lumber yard of j. F. Paul, on Maya.
zine street, between Calliope and Gainnie,
by Special officers Myers, Pecora and Brown,
charged with the murder Of Michael Carey.
He resided in the house from which the shot
was supposed to be fired, and answers the
description of the man whom Carey struck
with the bUttle. He admitted after his ar
rest that he was the man.
The musket was found under the house,
and showed that it had recently been dis
charged. The wife of the accused stated
yesterday tAat her husband fired off the
musket on Thursday night but did not say
he shot anybody. She informed the Officer
that after firing the shot, he put the muskel
in its usual place, but she, becoming fright
ened. hid it under the house. Suspicion
was first positively fixed on the building BY
the wedding, which was found lying ten
feet from it. The search took from early in
the morning until late in the afternoon
Messrs. Lynch aud Simmons both identified
the accused as being the man struck witt
the bottle.
There Is no proof that Brown fred al
Carey, but if he did he certainly had somt
degree of provocation il being assaulted
by the brutal aud perhaps half intoXicated
rnfian. We are informed that some weeks
ago ago Carey shot boy IN the street, from
the window il. the house where he resided
G. A. Guasiello robb d Madame Bertrand
in q street car on Greatmeu street, by cut
ting out her pocket, containing SIS. He go
out of the car with his plumber, but Was ar
rested subsequently.
Mike Carey was not member of the ain
nocents.n SO the president, DIR. Pas. La
barre, emphaticaliy declares.
In the yacht race yesterday at the Lake
End tue Xlphias was again the winner.
Thomas Patterson, Charles Harper and D
Haggerty were arrested this morning on thu
steamship landing, charged with broaohinl
the cargo OF steamship Alliance.
Lieutenant Manning sends message tC
the Chief of Police. He saws: .sI have the
honOr to report all quiet. A colored mar
refused to pay his fare on the ferry boat
little before dark, and was knocked on thC
head.p This is a new definition of all Quiet
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on the ticket against reconstruction had nc
| right to run on that ticket II that ticke
| had been successful that government was
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