The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-06
INQUEST IN THE NEWTON AS
SASSINATION.
THE TESTIMONY.

.,rutaally murdered by one of keIlogy's
.ai,;on.
william Fagau. .Ji Ei-ii,h -trec.-On III,
evening Of september the ri. was standing a,
=. A. j ylc,s, about 4 quarter pas, seven o'clock
,lDtice,I q coulmo ,.on among I the people on
S'aaal street walked M TO the. corner myself.
noticed two n.l in the middle Of the street fa,,
-.yaratlng from one ..ioth, r an If ON. OF tlI,n}
g.y. struck; the one thought was struck fiji i,
Woody gutter lac ani in the gutter som SECONDS.
ln4ily lie got out IF t.!. cutter by TIN, assistance
J. some person u ~ Himself, could not cNacty
state, and on getting out of tho cutter started t.,
-r!n across Canal street viii, his head down The
.4rty That was rnill.;,.- was Alex Newton.
NJ r. U.,rrath %, Liberty street. + wa .
.,anlng al The corner OF Canal aid Eoyal
,tre.ts at ,baut u rink in the eyrniu,, taIkinu
f3 : friend, .. Gr.,wen'. corner. | sa3 looking
toward .lc r.Il.i .id,. If Canal street when TIT
tr!aad called e.v attention. L, sand Jhu,, f1i-
',a's are tr iugt, grtup fight." lien looked
trtlni ana san AitN Newton and tan gentle
,nan t!.rIl made = r. mark to my friend his
= lex Newton; H. ! drunk lei is ut away
RON hin ]" ~ TREAD and | crossed over to the
opposite corner Moon j. standing with my back
VI t.r.swoId nad b.,Il there twn Or tire. n,,,,
rstao | heard It -..uilie and looked around and
AN Newton fall IL til. gutter Witness va within
ylt.3n feet OF the parties, and thcy were stanu-
lax a-alu-t the corner pillow of the borse New
ms head whe,. he fiji was resting "a tie curh.
tl,en made the remark to nv friend he il
lad" ncaliny, Newton. | saw the tail gentle
iaau standing III inc middle Of the street Tie
.i!i gentleman put his hand ON his et breast and
walked back to Gri ODDS corner and stood there
boa. one innl!te when he I. H. | then made the
t.-Il4aIk to my friend, they arc both dead"
aid not aee tie parties cinchcd together nor
blows pass between them When the tnU man
i'll, the crowd BEGAN to run away from the cor
ner | ran to thc middle Of Canal stree. ana
rLere stopped Nv friend saw There GOES
Newton" eay- : Whcie?n He says ..tly.r
\, In corner p,,ptinr ~ III, Crescent IN 7
Al n
without any hat on | uld not see him after IL.
uttered the hall [ then returned Ia ;hc
.auauete, wller. til, tall man was living.
s. Peuora Between the lIonrs OF and A
,,tntlelnan came iii to me and told me that Il
Gentleman had -t.,, killed on the corner If Canal
ana Roya; street Detective Eniz md ,ny..lf
.,r,ceed. & to that place and found "A man dead ON
Tie sidewalk At lie time he vas there he heard
some person FAY =. Here l, tho knife III ,hr
.elt.er' Upon J., iii. -hown the knife Recognized
as .l.t dc ne Iyich 4 ~ out ~ th,. .lrf..r.
.ilne Rriz detcctiy. was ,tandu. at the
.,.rncr OF Dalphr.. aid Canal streets ~ith Dc
...,t.y,. Pgc,ra between. tho hours N. ana =
o'clock T. NJ, when a man by the name of
r,niacun. who I've. or Mandeylllc. wear I'r,r.
street Jnii me tt.it there was a snan stabbed at
Ill. corner OF Nnval and Canal streets. Pecora
III myself started I. fas. ~ ". .oIll 10 tb..
.,ace and there sound IL great quantity of nao,lt
md some one said There Is the knit. Iid
""cura stepped down and picked i. NJ Iid,ni-
'i-i the knife az Ncing the one that Psc0ra
,.-ied upI. ana from there crossed over to The
-l1n, whom found living on the tmnGuette dead.
There was d police officer standing alongside
.: The dead MAJ; and also another inar IN IN.
came OF Fiancl,an Chase, who was stopping over
he de td man. ". resides at No. Il St I. puis
.yree this IRA nc SEQ Chase La in Iii, p,.s seiyn
i. pocket book Il bunch Of KEYS "A pocket kli O..
.nl god pencil. tlil- pocket knife was closed
When eaw ii IN Nj. Chascs hands; it a very
mall In f.; ask Mr.. Chase VIII II he was dong
9Th tho.e article and lie answered that they
.,lnnu a "a, he II fbny
4rticies out OF the dead mans pockets; told him
We had no business 10 search the man and took
ihe articles ffor. Mr. Oh st and put them back
INTO the dead mans pockets; some one then sa,d
lat the man had 5tcN arrested who committed
.ae deed.
JOHN Britton ". rs Magazine strcet-On
Tuesday night a. a ont $50 O'Clock, l was stand
lng al the cornr- OF Canal and Royal streets.
~t,ere saw scu-tc bctN -en two parties. saw
n. blow passed rs of the parties, and they
= I'll d ,riy Iea a. The st ct, and 0 10 Of
she parties threw the other III the gutter: 40
-nan that fell iii the gutter the one who made
he bl 81 Il the other one threw him III the gut
;.r; / SAW h- hand raised and saw something
Ike ste oI flash il l- hands: the other man thci,
salhcd t. the hanuuttte whe,. they had come
.lsm tell and died friend Of mine ma d. the
Inark they are h til dead [ then W, nj across the
"-uer and lem aimed there some twenty minutes
Yhen | came back saw a party looking into the
liter J went there and looked III tie gutter
ind raw a bowie knife living there where Tin,
.oased man lay ana ascurtained his name and
vent away.
Riclsa RI Ma Risor No Us Magazine street.
vas standing ut trc corner of Canal and ROYAL
-,treets, at Moodys corner on Tuesday the LIST
Instant, IA little aft, O'Clock =. VI. was faced
.sYarti. the river, and what drew my attention
Was hearing person running. turned around
md saw a man getting np ont Of the gutter III.
anne towards me- where | was standing. a.d
ilst az he got to me be wheeled and fell, and a.,
", fell hls hand took mo bv the side OF NV neck
de jumped NJ and a, Ii. went out of tn, corner
On Canal street sor,c one holIoa. d. s.Catch Inn,
,atch Hmm Ii va, the same man that got no ont
ri the gutter When the man fell i'll the gutter
10 0 . heirrI him - get ~, He rot uI HIM
self,
John Grthcrie, No. IA Common street Twas
standing d. the corner Of Canal and ROYAL stree u
M,odys q ner, at about IA quarter past o'clock
On Tuesday evening saw a man gong toward
ne other 5prncr and he pulled knife and cut a
-;entlcman standing at the conner: don't know the
parties, Iu. thinks he could recognize tie man
4ho did tho cutting. The man that did tn. cut
Ing fell into the gutter and when he cot ND he
cit ms knit lying III the gutter ard ran towards
st. Charios street; SAN thu knife and it looks
Ike tbs luifc shown to me, but thought that It
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