New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-11-17

ter. I had an animoaitv aoainst Virera. and
therefore concocted the letter accusing him.
We had, three Of ~, concocted . letter out
OF animosity, and. was selected to bring
tne case before the Council. As to the case,
l know nothing about It.
the court and the grand jury, and then
coolly falsifies himself and says he knows
nothing about the case. makes his state
ment before the grand jury, then the letters
written by the witness on which the &C.
cused has been prosecuted ought to be read
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Mr.. Castellanos objected to this. The
State could not discredit its own witness,
The court decided that the letter be read.
District Attorney-Is that your signature
before the Mayor, sworn to and subscribedl
Wltness-I never was sworn.
District Attorney-ls it your letter
Wltness-It is. rsrf--e.s
The letter was then read. 1t is written
by N. J. Robertson, discharged foreman,
formerly under vigers, charging vigers
with defrauding the city, through him. He
drew the money and gave it to Vigers. VS.
The letter shows that Robertson did the
very thing which Vigers 10 charged with
now, and he only excuses himself by stating
that he had to obey the orders Of his su-
periors or lose his place. The writer closes
with the assurance that he commits q pOlit-
ical suicide by sending in this letter to the
Mayor. '"s "a --..5 I
As to the charge against Mr.. Louis Ken
ner, . nolle proseqm was entered, and he
was honorably discharged, % the whole
charge against him was founded only on the
letter Of M. T. Robertson, which, as he tells
in the Vigers case, contains charges made
out Of animosity, and which he can not SUBJ
stantiate. ze.9 s..4,o .
William Watney was azraigned and
pleaded not guilty to the charge Of killing
Gottfried Bass on the seventh of October
at the corner Of Congress and Rampant
streets, Third District. T.r-.7 4,
The Attorney General fixed the case of
Edward Donelly, for the murder of Dennis
Karrigan ON the twenty-seventh Of Septem-
Der, 1870, for Thursday next, twenty-third
instant.
Pablo Delasortas, charged with the MUIR
der of Antonio Francisco, on the twenty
seventh October, near the powderhOuse,
Algiers, pleaded not guilty, and was re-
manded for trial.
In the case of James Lindsay, alias Clin-
ton, and James w. Smith, charged with
having, on the twenty fifth Of March, muir
dered one E. F. Chandler, the Grand Jury
found true bill on the nineteenth May, ON
which both prisoners were arraigned and
pleaded not guilty, on the twenty-fourth
May. Colonel Field and r. Mari, Esq,
have been appointed counsel The case
was continued to Thursday next, to have
the preference before the cases fixed for
that day. ..
The case of M. F. Rodgers, charged with
the murder Of Albert Meyer, on the seven
teenth of July, ON Magnolia street, between
Gravier and Carondelet, Colonel A. P.
Field, of counsel for the defense, stated
that having only recently been appointed
in the case. and there being large number
of witnesses, and one of them main wit
ness, being absent in Florida, and moved
that the case be continued to an early day
in December, which was done, and the case
will be tried Monday, eleventh Of Decem-
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