New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-18
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DCAL INTELLIGENCE.

JOURNAL OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,
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DCAL INTELLIGENCE.
STEAMBOAT RUTH LARCENY. Edward
the youthful fellow, was caught with
e pieces of table service which had
tolen from the steamboat Ruth. The
nption and circumstantisl evidence
becidedly against Jones, therefore he
nwn to the Criminal Court.
IT A FEMALE DoG.-P. McGuinn and
Cunningham were arrested on com.
of Daniel Reardon, who swore his
hat the accused had stolen from him
ale dog of the bull and hound breed.n
hations will be made on the twenty
instant before Judge Becker's court.
RANGE CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY
Nan Charged t0ih Murder-In Oc-
le66, q husband murdered his wife in
ssonville, parish Of Ascension, and
a, His name was Jesse Brown or
e. A little over week ago Robert
Constable from Donaldsonyille, was
this city, and while here thought
discovered the offender, and at once
d him, and afterward the case was
lily investigated before United States
ssioner Urban, where prisoner as.
! bis entire ignorance of the accuse.
nd gave his name-Edward Wingfeld.
blowing testimony explains:
ert Boyd knows the prisoner is the
accused of numbering his wife in
sonyille; saw him daily in the first
Ina (Federal) regiment during the
knows witness as he would his own
&; is sure he is the man; has no doubt
Fer. 80. -
fael Gleason has known accused for
Il or fifteen years; he was waiting on
Ter in the customhouse in 1864; wit
Sused the arrest ten days ago for the
committed in the parish of Ascen.
Fitness, at the time of arresting him,
/ hands with him and called him by
asked him what he was doing; he
Nothing;n asked him why he did not
work on his old masters boat; he
was laid up; denied the murder when
accused him of it.
examined - When witness caused
Irest he denied that his name was
Brown; the Captain Brown now pres
4 the one witness has reference to as
Y master of the accused; the prisoner
fmerly worked with witness on the
Of which Captain Dugas was com.
In Brown-Hss been steamboating for
hears; had slave who went by the
b Jesse Brown, or Jesse Wallace; he
wife in Donaldsonville, and heard
.sse had murdered her. Jesse Brown
the boat with me for Donaldsonville,
off at that place; have never seen
Ice. Witness denies that the prison
e Jesse Brown in question. Jesse
q had broader shoulders and different
|Qs. The lapse of time could make no
liberation in his personal appearance
prevent recognition. Witness does
Bow the prisoner. Have seen men
& in two years; but the boy had
Nj his hand which the present prison
mot. Witness denied positively that
soner was Jesse Brown.
bin A. Dugas-Have been captain on
Bsissippi for twenty-eight years. Jesse
was on his boat for two or three
The prisoner is not the man. Con-
previous witnesses; thinks he could
Der him after four years.
4. Gross-Has been captain for
ime; knew Jesse Brown; the prisoner
Jesse Brown.
hrmy. Believed the present prisoner
lin. Could not swear to 1t with GER
bly, Sheriff Boyd recalled-was as
convinced of the identity of the pris-
gith Jesse Brown as ever. He could
hundred witnesses from Donaldson
3 prove that the accused was Jesse
bel Thomas Fisher and wife, and Mr..
BID Bouligny were introduced on the
Colonel Fisher stated that the &C
had been purchased by him in Vir-
Turing the war. At the time when
order was alleged to have been COM
A, the accused was a servant whom
5 believed to be waiting upon his
in Atlanta, and at that time had
Been either Louisiana or New Orleans,
best of his belief. These statements
confirmed by Mrs. Fisher. The &C
had been a servant about the house,
he could swear in the most unequiv-
manner that he had never been absent
be family day.
b missioner Urban dismissed accused,
tent from the courtroom with his
master and mistress greatly relieved
blk that he had never murdered any
certainly not his wife.
B FROM ABRoAD.-We find the follow
! bpatch in a Mobile paper over the