New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-05
Local Intelligence.


The RocHEREAU BURGLARr.-Yesterday
at eleven o'clock was the time set for the
preliminary examination before Recorder
Staes, of Pierre Berth and Jean Capdeville,
charged with the burglary committed at the
store of A. Rochereau g. Co., on St.
Louis street, last Saturday night. The ac-
cused were present with their counsel,
Colonel Field. Messrs. Bermudez and Cas-
tellanos appearing for the prosecution.
On the case being calleds Mr.. Castellanos
stated that the prosecution was taken by
surprise; that he had understood that the
examination would not take place until
next Friday He stated that new facts
were being developed in the ease daily, and
of such a nature that it would be pre-
judicial to to the interests of justice to have
them stated in open court at this time. The
prosecution was busily engaged in fcrrcting
out evidence for the conviction of all the
parties engaged in the crime, and the in
terest of the State demanded delay.
Colonel Field admitted the right of the
State to ask for reasonable delay, but was
under the impression that it had been with the
consent of the prosecution that the case had
been fixed for this time. The prisoners too
had rights he said, though the case was OF
such magnitude to the State. Afhdavits
upon affidavits accumulated daily, and no
longer ago than yesterday, the counsel for
the accused had been arrested upon trumped-
I'D charges as an accessory He did not
know how soon such might be his fate. lie
was prepared to waive an examination and
allow the case to go before the Grand Jury,
where the prosecution could produce It's
evidence without its being made public. he
did not understand rightly whether the
prosecution intended to make a capital Of
tense of this case; if so, the affidavit was
defective.
Mr.. Castellanos claimed that the affidavit
clearly established the fact that the offense
was capital. and, moreover, claimed the
right to reetify any omissions and strengthen
the declarations of the affidavit at any
time.
Recorder Staes said he did not feel at
liberty to entertain the proposal to waive
examination. The law was clear and i'm
perative upon that point; it was his duty as
a committing magistrate, to go through
with the examination and take down the
evidence.
After some further discussion, Bortin and
Capdeville were remanded until next
Friday at ten o'clock, without bail.
Cesar Huet, charged with being an
accessory before the fact, is also held as
a principal. but after some remarks by his
counsel, Colonel Mouton, the counsel for
the prosecution agreed to allow him to be
admitted to bail. He was released on slo,-
900 bonds.
Berlin and Capdeville, being short OF
change, made application for the money
found upon their persons, but as portion
of it can be identified as apart OF the pro-
ceeds of the robbery, the modest request
was not granted.
Roam OF POLICE CoMMIssIONERs.-At
meeting of the Board of metropolitan
Police. held yesterday, Hon. o. >. Dunn
in the chair; present all the commissioners.
The following charges against members OF
the force were tried, viz:
A. Hahnel, first precinct. Charge, sitting
down; reprimanded: c,.,
p. r. Randolph, first precinct. Charge,
sitting down on his beat; guilty, hneu one
i + Shannon. first precinct. Charge, en-
tering coffee house; fined one day pay.
H. ". johnson and J. Lynch, first pre-,
cinct. Charge, asleep while on duty me"
five days pay, each.
J.W. Creag1, first precint. Charse,d ruhh-
enness dropped from the roll. ...:
down on his beat fined two days pay.
M. St. Armand, fifth precinct. Charge
asleep on duty: lined five days pay
Joseph Hunter, harbor precinct. Charge,
disobedience of orders fined two days pay.
G. c. Reid, sixth precinct. Charge,
asleep on his beat; fined five days pay.
FIRST DISTRICT CoURT.-Toole, the two
Millers, and the others implicated in the
beating and robbing of Henry Williams on
Barracks street, on the seventeenth of Octo-
Der. were up for trial yesterday. 1t being
evident that the panel would be exhausted
without obtaining a jury, and yesterday be-
ing the last day of the jury term Judge
Aha,l continued the case until the fourteenth
instant. An application to reduce the o.'ii
If the accused was opposed by Distfic1 Az
torney Luzenburg, and refused by Judge
Abel, except in the case OF Inc ~o .aa
fireman, one of the accessories whose JULIUS
were reduced to $50. of
James Lindsay alias Clinton convicted Oh o.
stealing several pieces of damask from Inc oe
s s Of Simon, Loeb & Joseph No. %
Ch,rtres street. the goods having oee : 'o sa'r
= bis possession, was sentenced 10 '0uf
months in tho Parish Prison. IN. .or.
n the case Of vincents simondel'' '0A,