The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-29
gether in confusion, and no order was pre-.

Here could be seen baby put In between
two adults, and there group of babies placed
heller SHELTER around. A visit to the place is
enough to satisfy any one that it cannot help
unity to the thickly settled portions Of the
city, the custom of taking out the old collins
of small pox corpses, and the general lack OF
any attention to sanitary laws, certainly call
for attention.
Medical jurisprudence has happily given
US the means of determining whether q per-
son came to his death from suffocation or other
causes, and its aid will be required with
out doubt in this CAGE. The condition of the
lungs, their congestion. the state Of the other
organs of the body, all bring in their corobo-
rative evidence when questioned, and no
matter how near death a person may be, the
fastening of it by smothering leaves its in
evitable mark.
Seldom has such deed of horror been
chropicled, and, for the sake of humanity,
we trust it will be long before it becomes our
province to repeat it.
John Brinkmeyer, q youth fourteen years
of age, residing on Washington street, near
Magnolia, stated: was in the graveyard be-
fore the man was buried-I mean the man
that was buried alive-I saw him move. He
moved his toes. The man moved-it may
have been the lifting from the cart, but he
moved and moved his toes. l left before he
was buried.
There were q number of other persons who
stated that, hearing man was being buried
alive, they went to the cemetery, but were
pushed back and refused admittance.
Schwartz, the sexton of the cemetery,
stated, on being interviewed: "The man was
dead. buried him. The cof1in had fallen
to pieces from the jolting of the cart The
lid of the coffin WAS off. The lid was divided
| into two pieces The driver of the wagon, in
driving 10 the nail. had driven it IN the out
| side, aud the lid fell eff. I do not know
what happened before he got to the cemetery.
did not see stone placed on the breast OF
the dead man. jim is man suited for his
position, and of course he is not very good
hearted and tender. 1t is customary to admit
persons to see bodies buried, but on this Ay
we kept everybody out because there was SO
much excitement
Our reporter laid the above particulars be-
| fore Detective Devereaux, and that officer
with an assiduity deserving OF commentator
promptly instituted search after Connors,
and eventually succeeded in finding him at
the City Work House, where the corporation
wagons are kept Connors, before being
placed under arrest, acknowledged that he
had drawn wagon No. l to the Locust Grove
Cemetery, Wednesday evening, at halfpast
49,
Banks and colored child that he had taken
from the SMALLPOX Hospital, bat denied in
| toto that the man was alive or that he had
stopped on the way.
He stated further, that he thought that
the people in that neighborhood did not like
him, and intended stating that he had buried
the man alive, but strange to say, he could
not cite an instance where he had ever had
any trouble, or even misunderstanding with
any person that resides in that locality, or
that was present when this heinous crime wal
perpetrated. He was place under arrest and
escorted to the Central Station, where he was
locked up at o'clock last evening.
Ii Connors is the same man that got into ar
alteration with the warden of the Work
house some few months ago; and in firing al
his antagonist missed his aim and struck
woman who was quietly walking along the
sidewalk at the time. The wounded woman
remained in the Charity Hospital some fou1
or five days before the physicians in attend
ance deemed it prudent to give certificate
that she was out of danger.