New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-18

with verd1e OF guilty. Inc 0taso WA
represented By. District Attorney zuingliua
Mckay, and the defense by n. comman.
denr, Esq
CONFESSED THE FACr.-The striking pro
pensities Of Frederick Bailey, who handled
q capstan bar with great dexterity toward
the person of Louis Baptiste, has beeH the
cause Of sending him before the Criminal
Court. to stand trial for an assault and
battery. As Bailey was in box htolun-
tarily declared that the charge was, IN fact,
true, but contends that he had sufficient
cause.
James Fulton and James Wilson art in.
playing checkers with their noses, behind
iron bars, because they are charged with
stealing trunk Of new clothing from A.
Roos, corner of Magazine and Common
streets. The clothing is valued at one
hundred dollars.
Recorder J.eclerc. Third District, yeeter-
day discharged FRANCOIS johnson, the
special patrolman who accidentally shot
and killed the child Michael Clifford, No. 7
Peace street. This action was based on a
verdict rendered by the Ceroners jury that
the shooting was accidental.
A MANNED heifer has been lying on the
steamboat landing for nearly week, with
out food or water. We are told that the
animal was put off a steamboat with an
order to the levee clerk to let it remain
there. Captain McCann made an effort to
have the beast killed or removed, or both
| CRIMINAL COURr.-Felix Barengo and
James Omglade were charged with larceny.
The former was convicted, and 'Onglade
was discharged on q nolle prosequi.
John Marshall and Pat Coyls were charged
with stealing, on the fifth Of November,
about twenty-five dollars from John Farrell.
Coyle pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
one year in the Penitentiary. In the case
Of Marshall nolle prosequi was entered.
Gustave Remand, convicted Of an assault
on the eighth Of June, on Louise Felix, was
sentenced to five dollars or twenty-four
hours Parish Prison.
Michael Golden, convicted of assault and
battery. but recommended to the mercy oil
the court, was fined five dollars.
William Smith, convicted of stealing, on
the twenty sixth of October, bottle OF
brandy and bottle of whisky from john
Reese, was sentenced to six months in
Parish Prison.
Peter Fenner. Jr, was found guilty OF
assault, and recommended to the mercy OF
the court.
Changes in the money market. SO fac as
Frank Taylor and John Wilson are con
cerned, created suspicion that one or
both of them accumulated twenty-One
dollars from William Matheson. The three
had been cut spreeing around the Third
District. The way things run during the
jollifcation, neither Taylor or Wilson had
much more than car ticket, but on the
following morning Taylor possessed twenty
one dollars. Matheson concluded that his
partners robbed him, and Recorder Leclerc
took the same view, which committed the
acc<Aed to the Criminal Court.
A SPIRITED LADY.-Among the attempts
at burglary in Algiers on Thursday night,
there was one well worthy Of record, on &C
count of the brave conduct Of the lady on
whose house the attempt was made. About
midnight the residence of Captain Follett,
on vallette street, near the corner of Della
ronde, was entered through bedroom
window. Captain FOllett is absent from
the town, and Mrs. FOllett was alone in the
main building, the servants lodging in the
kitchen. A slight noise made by the thief
as he attempted to enter awakened Mrs.
Follett, and she beheld the tall form of a
ruffian STOPPING down near the bed, in the
act of riaing the pockets of her Dress She
neither screamed nor tainted, but gently in
serted her hand under the pillow, and drew
forth-not q. purse, with am invitation to
"save my life and take all but an earnest
looking six-sh6btng revolver, which, it
seems, the lady makes . practice, in the
absence of her husband, Of depositing under
the pillow, as . practical illustration of poor
Richards dictum, that "GOd helps those
who help themselves"
The thief must have beheld in the dim
light the sheen of the deadly tube, which
certainly meant business, and he must have
become suddenly impressed with the idea
that it was moro healthy in the open air
than pent up in close room, for, with light
ming speed, he sprang through the window.
His sudden rush diverted the heroine's aim
for a moment, and we'll for him, for as he
passed through bullet whistled past him,
and as he dropped on the ground, second
shot lodged in the window sill. The last seen
Of him we're the soles Of pair of shoes up
turned toward the ethereal, as they followed
the feet that followed the legs that followed
the body that followed the head as the thief
pitched over tho fence, with but the one
thought-to escape from the glance of that
determined eye and the energy of that I'M
faltering hand.
The thief, as be gathered himself up and
sped down Delaronde street, was seen by a
neighbor, whom the shots awakened. He
was tall man, with legs like pair of COM
passes, which he used (the legs, not the
compasses), with a speed that emulated
Jack the Giant Killers sevcn-league boots.
THE CITY HIGH SCHOoLs.-The exercises
connected with the annual graduating of
the senior classes Of the high schools, and
the presentation of diplomas to the grad
yates, will take place on Monday and Tues
day next. On Monday, at p. M, will he
the exercises of the Central High School
(boys); on Tuesday, at 9 A. NJ, those of the
Girls High School of the Second and Third