The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-03
About the City.
Highway Robbery.

chase between "peeler" and one Ike John
| son, who was guilty u committing an as
sault and highway robbery upon the
daughter of Thomas Mcmahon; the child
was only eleven years old, and the bastard
robbed her of 81 so in currency, but was ar
rested on Terpsichore, near Magazine street,
and the money above mentioned was found
| in his pocket. The assault and robbery Oc-
cured at the corner of Magazine and An
nunciatiOn streets. johnson was secured in
the Second Precinct Station.
Lifting shoes.
One Henry Scott, a gay and festive youth
of fifteen summers. being DESTROYS of enter
ing the shoe trade, purloined from one Mar
tin Kanaski five pairs of shoes, which were
| worth to the victim in filthy lucre some
eight dollars. Martin made complaint to
| the officers, who seeing the point of the joke,
determined not to let the young thief go
| "Scott" free, and incarcerated him in the
| First Precinnt Station, there to offer up 4
| fervent prayer for the redemption of his
| "sOle."
| Explosion.
| At about 7:3O last evening a coal oil
| lamp exploded at the house No So Burgun-
DIV, between Cont and Benville streets,
owned by Mr.. Prodras and occupied by
Samuel Bush as residence. The explosion
! took place in the front room of the second
story, setting fire to the window curtains,
but was extlnguished by the officers before
any farther damage was done. There was
no alarm of fire given.
| Fire in a Stable.
At o'clock yesterday evening a fire
originated in stables Nos. 3 and 4 of the
| Crescent City Slaughter-house Company,
but before the flames ma any Roadway
the fire was extinguished by the residents
Of that locality. The amount of damage
will not exceed 5000. The cause of the fire
is unknown.
Herman Fatjo, poor unfortunate, who
was found by the police in a sick and desti-
tute condition last night, upon the streets,
was taken up and sent to the Charity Hos
pital for medical attendance.
| Found Open.
About o'clock last night, the fruit store
No. SIS Gravier street. was found open and
was secured by the officer.
From Yesterdays Evening Edition.l
| Fire.
! Last night, about IL o'clock, fire broke
out in the One-story frame house No. 16
Louisa street, owned by Mrs. Tanner, and
occupied by Valentine Miller as a dwelling
house and shoe store. The house was dam
aged to the amount of 5000, which was in
sured, but to what amount or in what COM
pany was not ascertained. The stock OF
shoes was injured to the amount OF Sl4O0,
and was insured in the Merchants for $1,000.
The cause of the fire is unknown. The
alarm was turned in from box 514 at Wash
ington Market. The engines being prompt
ly on the spot, prevented further damage.
| stolen Coos.
John Smith (not OF Virginia) seems to
have had his early education in morality
sadly neglected. as John was guilty of hav-
| ing goods in his possession that had
been feloniously obtained Of course, John
was questioned as to where those goods
came from, but, being like the father of his
country, he could not tell lie, and for his
truthfulness was locked up in the Fifth.
Their Irish UP.
Pat Greymes and jim Douglas, both
Frenchmen (9) by the way of McGuire's
Bridge, pitched into each other on board the
bark Chas Hickman, and had several pretty
hot rounds of punching each others noses
and batting each other over the head
until a "perler" came along when Pat
and Jim both threw up the sponge,
and the M. P. declared it q drawn fight.
| But Pat and jim We're kindly il vited to
take their departure for the Fifth precinct
gymnasium, where they can go into training.
Want to Wash.
Three festive youths var, ing in ages from
| Is to Is years, and by name, ChaA-N ililans,
! John Harper and John Hurley, made raid
on dry goods store at the corner of jose
phine aud Magazine streets, and snatched
! therefrom twenty-five new towels but when
they thought they mad them, then they
didn't for, as is always (g) the case, one of
those inevitable peelers was on the look out,
| Tx, IL
| them a nights lodging in the Sixth Precinct
house of correction.
IrOnical.
A young man, who has just turned the
age of nineteen and who when called Nelson
Lewis in the Police Courts will answer
:. here" was caught on the Ouachita Belle,
, stealing iron ties, and was therefor taken
into the lookup, where he now repeats,
There is a tide in the affairs of man when
taken by peeler leads to the station house,"
A Healing Subject.
Peter Williams. man of twenty years,
who always has an eye to business, was dis
| covered with box of shoes in his possess
ion, which, from the circumstances, were
supposed to have been pnrlOined from some
unfortunate merchant, therefore Peter was
taken to the Third Precinct, where he will
| be able to tell all about those shoes.
Got Sweet Doth.
| And here comes john Hanniberry, who,
being endowed by kind nature with sweet
"ivory," was guilty Of the ndiscretion of
abstracting sugar from hogshead which
John knew belonged not to him. There
fore, John went away to the station, think
ing that he had wasted his sweetness on the
desert air.
| Grave Subject.
Chas Hughes, French floral "cuss," was
caught in the Lafayette Cemetery stealing
flowers and shrubs, and the peeler came
along, and thinking this grave offence, en-
tombed the sacrilegious Charles in the Sixth
Precinct Station, there to mediate upon
the various botanical studies.
The Courts.