The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-23
SHOOTING ARRAY
At the Magnolia Restaurant.
The Wrong Man Receives Fatal Shot.
All Hands Arrested.

About o'clock last evening the neighbor.
hood Of St. Charles and Perdido streets was
| thrown into great excitement by the sound Of
four shots, following each other in quick sue
cession. The afray occurred at 95 st. Charles
street, at the Magnolia Restaurant, kept by
JAKE DEITZEL,
| with whom Mr. Tom North, formerly bar
keeper at the Press Saloon, had the difficulty
1t appears that some time before Mr.. North
had some dispute with Mr.. Deitzel concern
ing dog, and Mr.. D. had made some remark
about North. Yesterday morning Mr.. North
repaired to the Magnolia Restaurant and
asked Deitzel if he had m ade such remark, to
which Mr.. D. replied, Eyes, 1 did, North
walked away, but this evening, about G o clock,
as Deitzel was standing in the restaurant door,
North again approached the door and standing
by the show window
OPENED FIRE
upon DeitZel with navy-six, who retreated
into the restaurant and took refuge behind a
table, and, Selling the decanters and tumblers
therefrom, opened brisk fire upon North,
who, standing behind the screen, fired four
shots at Deitzel. None of the shots took eff
feet upon Deitzel, but one of the walters
in the restaurant, who was standing by,
named
JAMES COLLINS,
received ball in the abdomen, which passed
in about the median line and came out on the
right side, Just anove the umbillicus.
The officer was promptly on hand and ar
rested Mr.. North, when Deitzel, the proprie-
tor, rushed out with decanter, with which
to wreak his vengeance upon North, but the
officer informed him that North was prisoner
and could not be molested, whereupon the
officer states that Deitzel began an assault
upon him (the oticer) and struck him sew
eral times with the decanter and tore his
badge off. The officer also arrested Deitzel
and made charge Of assault and battery
against him. The officer states that the man
who was shot made to him the following
STATEMENT.
The man who did the shooting used to work
next door in the bar room. He came to the
restaurant and began firing at Mr.. Deitzel.
After the third sho. he took direct aim at me
and fred I don't know his name.
THE WOUNDED MAN,
James Collins, aged about thirty-two years
and a native of Ireland, was waiter in the
Mag aoliaj restaurant, where the difficulty oc
cured. After the ARRAY the officers conveyed
Collins to the Charity Hospital, where his
wound was examined and found to be in the
position as above stated.
The physicians pronounced his wound fatal
and thought his death certain. The resident
Priest then, with a large crowd around the
dying mans bed, administered the last sacra-
ment. A few moments after this Judge A.
H. Macarthur, accompanied by the Clerk Of
the First Municipal Court, and Mr.. Alexander
Dalsheimer, entered the ward for the purpose
OF taking the dying mans statement, but
Collins was too weak, and therefore, very little
was elected.
Mr. Tom North, who did the shooting, is
man Of family and about 80 years of age,
rather small in stature, and was for some
time bar-keeper at the Press Saloon, No. 81
ST. Charles street. Mr.. Deitzel was after
wards released on bonds, to appear this morn
ing. The attorneys of Mr.. North advised his
silence, and, therefore, his statement could
not be learned Thus ends another Of those
bloody tragedies growing out OF a simple mis-
understanding.