New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-05


About eleven o'clock last night the re-
port Of a pistol-shotI was heard on st.
Charles street, in the neighborhood of Com
mercial Alley, followed by another louder
report, and still another. Then came the
cry ''stop thief" and man was seen run
ming up St. Charles street. AT the corner
of Poydras another shot was fired,
and then the man who was running
was seen turning down toward Poydras
Market. A moment after, fifth shot was
fired, and two meni were seen running out
into the middle of the street about midway
between st. Charles and Carondelet There
were heard groans of a man wounded. a
cab drove rapidly off containing wounded
man, q crowd moved off toward the police
station, surrounding a man who had been
shot and was bleeding. Upon arrival at
the station, it was discovered that the man
who had been running, and who was shot.
was Day Officer Sutherland. A ball had en-
tered his back on the right side. and passed
through 10 his right breast. On bis person
were about FIVE hundred dollars in currep-
cy. His statement as he sat groaning in
his chair at the Station House, was that an
attempt had been made to rob him, and
that in his endeayor to escape, the cry had
been started. He was subsequently re-
moved to his home on Dryades street.
Meanwhile John Price, about to be ap-
pointed on the police force, had been found
TO be shot in the body, and was taken off.
as previously stated, in a cab to q drug
store near Poydras Market, where surgical
attendance was procured.
After the occurrence a gentleman was
standing in front of the theatre, telling
friend that the man who was shot and at
the police station was police officer. One
of group of policemen returning from
the station overheard him and denied the
assertion, at the same time seizing a Young
er brother of Mr. Hyams by the lapel of
the coat and shaking him, and was about
arresting him, with the remark that such
trash caused all disturbances. The boy.
however, was rescued by his brother. The
fifth shot, which wounded officer Suther-
land, is said by ST. Charles policeman, to
have been fired when Sutherland was sur
rounded by several persons attempting to
arrest him.
The foregoing was compiled from the
morning papers. The following is the
Sergeant McCann reports that about
quarter past eleven P. NJ. five or six shots
were fired on st. Charles street by some
person or persons unknown, in which
Patrolman Sutherland received dan
gerous wound in the right side, the bal.
passing through his body lodging in his coat.
and which has since been found in the
police station. He was taken to his resi-
HppaA N Ina nbo
not considered fatal. Also John Price re-
ceived wound, the ball entering under
his left arm and lodging in his shoulder.
He was taken to drugstore on Poydras
street, near Baronue, where the ball was
extracted. His wound is not considered
dangerous. He was taken to his residence
on Canal street.
From Captain White, Chief of Detectives.
we learn that Mr.. Price, who was to-day to
be commissioned as a special officer, ac-
costed Patrolman Switzerland, who was
known to have. had a FIVE hundred dollar
greenback note, and asked him what he
had done with it. To this Mr.. Switzerland
replied: "This is what have done with it."
at the same time knocking Price down.
There are suspicious thst the firing was
done by Special Officer Webb, who, learn
ing what the intimations were, surrendered
himself and is now in custody. He denies
that he fired shot
Patrolman Switzerland, who was charged
by broker five per cent to convert his five
hundred dollar note iuto small notes. saws
the money was his and the result of honest
earnings and careful savings.
Both the wounded men are doing well
and out of danger. The ball was ex
tracted from Prices wound by DR.. Loeber.
OF No. 203 Lafayette street, who rendered
prompt and gratuitous services.