New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-28
The Unfortunate Dead.

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Under the above title the Eicksbur
Herald shows how coroners' ioquests result
in Mississippi if the verdict given is fai
sample. The sick who come to New Or
leans from other cities are better cared for
and it would be hard to find case of on,
| who had died in market for want o
shelter in the hospital. The jury may hav,
given as sensible an opinion on the cause o
death as the evidence suggested, but {
| little ebuke of the authorities, in coBnec
| ton with the pious conclusion, would hay.
| done no harm:
On Tuesday afternoon, a plain country
| looking negro man came to this city from
Madison parish and complained Of being
sick. He went up to the City Hall, it is sup
posed, for the purpose of enGeavoring t.
| secure a permit to go to the hospital bu;
| finding the chances poor on account Of the
action of the Legislature concerning that
institution, lay down upon d bench in one
| Of the market stalls, where he was found
early yesterday morning. lie said, when
approached, that he had no IDEA OF recover
ing, and about seven o'clock the unfor
tunate man passed to final rest Justice
Loewenberg sent Constable Adams to
Summon coroner's jury Of inquest, which
was promptly done, and the following
verdict returned:
I'VE, the jury, summoned. ompanelled
and sworn to true preseDtinent make in be-
half of the State Of Mississippi as to how
and IN what manner the person, colored
man, now lying dead before US, came to
his death. for our verdict do say that he
came to his death from the natural causes
of some disease unknown to The Jury, or
from the all wise and unIuestionaale dis
pensation Of his Creator. ii. G. Roberts,
foreman, James Murray, John Sexton, Ed
ward Snowdon, +. Boy Ian, Michael Jones'
There was nothing about the mans per-
son indicating his name, and the fact that
he came from Madison parish was only
known through a negro woman who saw
him coming over on the ferryboat. Justice
Loewenberg, after receiving the verdict Of
the jury, ordered that the city sexton bury
the unknown dead, and in the afternoon
Sexton Arnold placed the body in plain
coffin and deposited it in grave in that
portion OF the cemetery where the I'M
recorded sleepers await the judgment day.
In another issue of the same paper, the
when no one touches them is illustrated in
an account Of the breaking up Of party.
The party was held in the courthouse; was
said to be white, and no ''melee" is spoken
of except where Messrs. Dunn and Duncan
were wounded. AS they were attending
the party, it is rather mysterious to assert
no white men were at the commencement
of the ARRAY. 1t is, however, the old story
of a terocious negro attacking defenseless,
unarmed whites, and being badly wounded:
One of the gentlemen, Mr.. James Dunn,
took the negro to task for his outrageous
conduct. when he drew knife and, with.
ont a word Of warning, threw his hand
over his shoulder and stabbed him in the
back. Mr.. Dunn stepped back and ex-
claimed, "He is cutting Ine;' and as he did
SO the negro made another lunge at him,
stabbing him the second time in the right
breast. Mr.. William Duncan, who was
standing near at the time the assault was
made on Mr.. DUN, attempted to interfere,
when the negro made an assault upon him,
giving him severe cut il the neck. which
narrowly escaped being fatal BY this
time Mr.. Dunn had armed himself with
stick, and was about to make use of it,
when the negro took to flight. The night
was very dark, with a slight sprinkle of
rain falling, and the negro ran toward the
woods with all possible speed In short
time he was lost sight of, ami not till the
with roseate hue could any one tell whittier
he had fled. Then they found him like one
Of the babes in the wood whom the robins
did not cover with leaves, stretching his
length on the cold. cold turf, and bathed in
a pool OF blood. He had been severely cut
in the melee and had died frcm the effects
Of his wounds, after retreating from the
scene OF conflict None OF the whites were
around at the time the ARRAY commenced,
but soon after ruInor spread that the
negroes were to make a general onslaught
upon the whites. and they quickly prepared
for the issue. The alarm, however. proved
false, as no further demonstration of vio-
lence was made up to the time the Big
Suntiower left the scene, which was early
the next morning.