The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-15
WHISKY AND THE WEATHER.
Their Influence on Crime.

general public, but the weather has consider
able to do with murder and deeds of blood.
1t is fact, however, which is realized and
appreciated by the men whose duty it is to
watch for murders and deeds of blood, and
dress them up, if not for the qualification, GER
tainly for the edifcaton of the public.
Local reporters know "by instinct" when
10 expect them, and in certain kinds of
weather you will find the locals haunting the
end that they content themselves with occa-
sional trips to it.
Suicides can not be depended upon, al
though the weather does bear on them, and
when one is recorded others are calculated on,
if the weather is considered favorable, but
they are never confidently expected
There are times when morning after morn
ing as the public knows-for four and five
successive days, the papers have one or more
sensations in the way of record of some
deed of violence, and there are other times
when morning after morning, for four or five
successive days, there is "nothing in the
papers" and the general public and
Che Locals are-the first supremely
disgusted, and the second unhappy, not
because the general public, or the To-
Gals are evil-ninded, or that they delight in
knowing that one fellow being has neatly |
carved or plugged another fellow being, but |
when the general public invest their nickel
they want return, and the general public
have strange ideas of what constitutes q re-
surn on such heavy investment, and the Lo-
Gals are unhappy simply for considerations of
business they haven't got a sensation" 1t
mot the fault of the Locals, however; it is
all owing to the weather.
All killings for the sake of brevity, are de- |
nominated murders, without regard to the
circumstances which led to or followed them, | {
or their classification under the law.
Nineteen out OF every twenty murders and
deeds of blood that are perpetrated in New
Orleans are the result of too much whisky.
This is q proposition that can not be dis d
puted, and because it is q fact, is it that
weather has bearing and decided influence
on deeds of violence in New Orleans.
There are certain conditions of the weather | r
Turing which a drinking man must have more +
liquor than he is, generally speaking, in the T
habit OF taking This is not from experience n
mt from observation. There are certain other 4
conditions of the weather when a man takes
more than he ordinarily does, not because he
leeds it, but simply for the sake of god fell
Owship, and to drive away the blues and
here are still other conditions of the weather
7hen whisky has an unusual effect. a.
There is in the Locals catalogue three kinds 81
murder. First there is "Another Murder"
q this are many of the one in twenty in
'hich whisky is not solely the cause. They
ONE from grievance and wrongs, but
OF unfrequently whisky aggravates the griev-
nee and the wrongs and is therefore respon- ~,
bile. Then there is second the "Horrible he
urder, and third the BRUTAL Murder 20 20
"horrible murder is one that occurs in ~
whisky shop or on the street, and "brutal an
urder " is one that is committed at the home bp
the murderer, and one in which relative In
friend is the victim. -
The weather, however, has bearing on a s,o
EN- all. OF
In cool, bracing and dry weather murders
ldom occur, and when they do occur they
Q confined to the first class. In this kind of
ather man does not feel the need of much
luor, and what he does drink but exhiar-
IS, and does not excite. II he gets too
uch ne is either good naturally drunk or
thoroughly drunk that be can not stand
Take Christmas and New Year for an
ance as illustrative of this Generally
d dry. There are more DRINKS, good
uare downright DRINKS during holiday week
an at any other season of the year, but no
lrders.
In cold and rainy weather, "sloshy weather."
It cold damp weather, when the rain beats :,
q mans face and trickles down into his
Do tops, expect horrible murders and brutal yea
riders. Asst
den need drink and they drink more than pal
y need. game of cards in the bar-room IND 10
the table near the stove, not SO far from ieit
, door that tbe natter and dr;n of tha - bus
the outside can not he heard ~ a fr;anJIr he '
around the stova ;s On nosy o,a $50 dea
able like, and the cosy and comfortable air us
WIS the poorer classes, those Of them that quo
nix, and the lower classes from their fire. miu
J and cherries homes. Weather like this SURF
YES well-to-do people to their homes; they N
p their own liquor, those OF them that i u,
ak, and hug their own fires. was
he poorer and the lower classes frequent cock
poorer and lower order of bar-rooms inrlt
ere the liquor is cheap and fiery. the
maddens, and the friendly game of cards ever
AXIS mp in fight, the talk around the store and
inmates IN O row, and q stabbing or shoot mat
affray, and perhaps murder follows OF 10
ot weather the sweltering weather that we cons
etimes. ard not unfrequently have in New In q
eans-that kind of weather when the snr pens
rches, ana cloud is almost a curiosity is We
d weather for murders. the
ork in this kind Of weather tires everv and
flags them out" "stimulant" is
ted and ''stimulant" is taken. 1t neither
$ nor invigorates. 1.-THE weather-is
hot to go home, more stimulants are taken,
the blood, already over-heated, is fired, into
culies follow, and all on account of the nour
ther.
hen the weather is warm but cooled by '"Ae
8ers which start early in the evening, say
time from to to o'clock and come
n heavy until, say, from 10 to IL o'clock S
iers are scarce and the Locals complain TO Will
turnkey as they cool OH at nights in the for Il
on, that 1T is not a good night for muir and
THE
Ike the average human being, pick him With
any class OF society, and you will find VARA
he mas great ohJecuon TO getting wet Who
weather of this kind people take their the
(, take two or three, drinks perhaps, i
} the shower is going on, and then hurry