New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-05-10
The Grand jury.

The grand jury yesterday presented the
following report on the outrage Of May e:
1 Eono Edmund Atef3. Judge Of the First District
Court Parish Of Orleanso State Of Louisiana:
tie grand jury Of ris parish hating but recently
vsited upon yeur honor forced by their conviction
shat great wrong had and was being perpetratsd 81
upon the citzer of this effect Of which
! was extending itself throughout the State and
of that wrong 10y indctns the parties chit fly con-
cerned, urged you to in mediate action have again
TO wait upon you with deep sense of their
sponsbil,y to call attention to the disgrace.
tul acts rpetrated by an III controlled mob, who
allowed their passions to run riot with their It a.
son in breaking in!o the stores of several Of 0
citizens and destroying and robbing them of the
contents. These acts can not hut meet with e
disappIOva Of every Jaw abiding citizen. aad upon
| all such call for evidence that may bring any
| of those guilty parties to punishment Your AZ
ten'ion Is in.oaed to cemRunication III n made to
| Metropolitan Police, herewith attached.
The jury VII! now urge upon your honor Char all
such who have or may be arrested s@nel be pre-
| sented without delay, and that You s6fecOmmenG
! 20 the recorders who may appeai before you upon
purged Of this bot upon our ia fame, and let ihe
world know that she will sustain her reputation
as a law-ahdins city. and tnaf. though she NAV
temporarily he afflicted. she WILL Yes shine the
brighter for her Patience We desire to
deprecate before your honor any partisan spirit
that will Intimate or insinuate any other motive
on the part of this sury than that of sunservine
the interests of the citizens OF this parish i'll the
protection OF their lives ard propert, aud II puH
I
citizens, and especially strangers. with the dansey
of being allurel into places with which they are
rot acGuant. d, as the ten pier - Stout and his
purpose plundero SS"h eases Is We have pre-
sented to your lonGro and are likely to H:esente
we ask that yen riss watch carefully the means
sakeE by them 20 avoid GUnvlct.0A aid nerted
punshments and see that they XUt spgB SHE'S
s:sa. ~ d SSssice extended TO them.
9esyee:tally snbmitt-Hs
Sew orleans. May 3 1888
The following is the iet:er referred TO:
Pyesiien: and Board Cs Commissioners Metropolis
san PO.ic4s
GES7EEMEN-TYe srafs :urv ~ sas parish o.
Orleans, of the State OF Louisiana have Instructed
me. their foreman, to communicate with tour
honorable, body learn what steps have been
taken by yOu to arrest any of the parties engaged
in riOtous manner ii breaking into the et0res oce
cupisd by Messrs. Folsom Brothers on Old Levee
street and Carson Mudgee on Magazine street, as
also III the damage done to the Claiborne market
and cofeehouse adjoining On Tuesday night last"
AL of these acts have been committed in violation
OF the peace of the city aud should be punished to
the full extent Of the lave We wisho therefore;
that you wi Use all the means alt your comma nj
TO ferret out the parties engaged in these disgrace.
tul acts that Npon proper cOIvSc'ion they ;uay be
punished as theif lawleseness deserves
You wils please report FSiday at ~ Z. II she
names of all parties arrested aud What GisVos1:Son
has been made of theIuo
Respectfully etcee
Sew 0Isearse May 8. 1873.