The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-03
THE BUTCHERY TUESDAY NIGHT.

There have been many dreadful murder
committed i'll New Orleans-many murders
the very memory of which is calculated t.
veins, and which the lapse of time has no
Invested Of their shu ldering horror. Mel
have been killed in the heat of passion, have
been suddenly taken off in drunken brawls
have fallen by the knife of the mid
night assassin, but in no instance that we
now recall was there evinced so brutal an6
savage an instinct as was displayed Tuesday
night il the killing Of an inotfensive, estimable
and quiet gentleman by the desperate New.
ton, on Canal street. The two men had,
| probably, never met before, for Boudounay
was respectable citizen, who la5eyed hard
from day to day to support his large family,
while his assassin is q villain of the lowest
| order, a man to whom murder is familiar, who
is an intimate personal friend and associate OF
Kellogg, III whose pay he has been, and who
was, doubtless, in his pay at the time
he plunged his death-dealing knife into the
quivering heart OF his last victim. He was
guard of the usurping coward, for the very rea-
son that his desperate character was known,
and he has been frequently seen riding in
carriage with Kellogg, engaged in pleasant
converse Time and again he has threatened
TO wreak terrible vengeance upon the heads of
the White Leaguers, and he seems to have
been possessed with the idea that he would
raise himselfin the estimation of the usrrperby
taking quickly the life of member of the
White League. A few moments before the
killing actually took place, Newton was in the
Sazarac saloon, on Exchange Alley. taking a
drink with friend, when kellogg's secretary,
MIR. II. Conquest Clarke, entered. The latter
was at once hailed by Newton, and invited to
drink, which invitation was accepted, and
Newton ordered champagne
In the course of the conversation which en-
sued, Newton remarked that he was not afraid
OF any white in this city, and that if he
got In an atfray with any Of them his antagon-
list would never get away, but would remain
upon the baIquette beside him.
Shortly after this conversation, Newton
walked out and took up stand on the corner
Of Royal and Canal streets, where he looked |
Oh as one Of the White League cubs marched |
by.
The appearance of the procession appears
% have greatly excited him, and he observed |
loud that they were all 'damned towards,
md "would not hurt Or shoot anybody. At
his Mr. Boudounay, who was standing near.
poke up and said, 'You should not say that,
If. am White Lacquer, and l know they
re not towards At least am prepared to
10 my duty whenever called upon
Thereupon, Newton called Boudounay
lar, and rushing upon him plunged knife
nto his heart, inlicting CHASTITY wound
trough which the ife-blood gushed in tor
en,s and in an instant the gallant gentleman
nd good man lay corpse at the feet Of his
avage murderer, who walked off from the
rowd unmolested bearing in his bloody
ands the witness Of the horrid deed
We are not advocates of lynch law except
nder circumstances where the proper au-
lorities fail to act, but if that desperate viii
lin had been seized by an Infatuated crowd
nd hung to the nearest lamp-post while his
ands were yet reeking with the warm blood
his unfortunate victim, We could have
'und it in our hearts to have applauded the
eed as one i'll which stern justice had been {
one
1t is amazing that the assassin should have
cen permitted to walk away unframed, and /
G now and here enter our protest against the {
equent statements that have been made about
lie violence Of the people of New Orleans II
not t,pe! We are the meekest people on
DDS footstool, and the fact that Newton lives
the limits Of this city, is absolute proof of
II assertion.
1t has been said that Newton was a gambler, =
1t this is authoritatively denied, the gamblers t
terly repudiate him, and declare that he is \
lily a common ruffian or bruiser, and made a
S money by his reputation as such. They $
'nounce his crime as one of unparalleled $
vagery, and i'll common with other citizens s
sire to see swift justice meted out to him. !,
That Newton was slightly under the inhu- G
zee of liquor at the time of the murder is Il
obable, but that he was as drunk as was re- 2
esented by the Republican and as he himself s
etends is not true The character of the
ound and all the circumstances attendant st
ION the murder, preclude the idea Of Excess e
re intoxication. !,
The fact that he has been employed BY Kel- n
g, and was favorite bully of his, will no re
ubt, insure his speedy acquttal if the mat O. O.
: be left to kelloggs courts, and we may I,
Dn expect to see this human fiend again Il,
on our streets. Should a jury be found to tt
nvict him, Kellogg stands ready with a =, =,
rdon. lc
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A STRANGE RUM0R. VI