New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-14
Court Items,

In the Superior Criminal Court the AT.
torney General had fixed for trial on yes.
terday not less than five capital cases from,
the old docket-four of murder and one of
rape.
Not one, however, was tried, and in sew.
eral the accused, who had been in prison
for years, have been released upon their Nv n
recognizance.
The following are the cases and their dis.
position;
Peter Johnson-Murder. Accused a col
ored man, was indicted by the grand Jury
on the elevent of March, 1870, for havipS :.
the twenty second of January, 1870, on
Dryades street, near Thalia, shot and
killed Charles Horn, the first assistant of
Washington Fire Company No 20 On the
twenty sixth of September, 1873 johnson,
after having been out on $1,000 bonds, was
convicted without capital punishment, and
new trial was granted him on April l3,
1874, since which time he has been in iail.
Continued indefinitely, and prisoner re.
leased npou his own recognizAnce in the
sum of $500
Dido Baptiste, alias Camellio Cabello.
and Francisco Martini, alias Sylyio Antonio.
murder. Accused were indicted on the
thirtieth of November. 1872 for the murder
OF Antonio Carata, a young Italian, whom
they, as charged, bad drowned on the
eleventh of August, 1872, at Miguel's bath.
house, on the Old lake, after having pro.
cured insurance on his life for SIC, 900. On
the tenth of January, 1873, they were con-
victed, without capital punishment, and on
the tenth of February, 1873 sentenced to
imprisonment for life. The Supreme Court
set the verdict aside, and they have ever
since Seea awaiting another trial in iail
The main witness for the State, a pardoned
convict, named Thomas Ward, has left the
> State, and could not be brought here at apy
time when The case was fixed for trial
Case continued indefinitely, and accused re.
leased upon their own recognizance in the
sum of $1,000.
d. F. Lechinsky-Murder. Lschinsky,
then police officer, was indicted on the
tenth OF October, 1870, for having clubbed
to death on Victory street, on the twenty
sixth September, 1870, a sailor, Charles
Hanson. He was convicted without capital
punishment on October 20, 1870, and a new
trial granted him, as he had gone to trial
without counsel, and doubts were enter
tanned as g his sanity. He Is out on $1,000
bonds: Continued indefinitely by consent.
L: ID Winchell-Murder. Indicted on the
twelfth July, 1871, for having inflicted
mortal injuries upon James E. LYONS, a
telegraph operat or, in his house on Locust
street. Lyons owed him some money for
ooard. de Is out on $1,000 bonds. The case
not having been fixed tor trial in several
years, the accused, by permission of his
bondsman, went 10 Texas. Case continued
indie Tin tely. Bond not forfeited for above
Re asOns.
Joseph Collins-Rape. Accused a boy,
was indicted September Il. 1873, for having
on July 81, 1873, an outrage
upon girl named Mary Jane, eleven years
Of age, on IRENE street, between ST. Louis
and Toulouse streets. He has since been in
jail. Nc State witnesses appeared. Ac-
cused was released upon his own recogni-
zance i n the sum of $500.
There are several of the old capital cases,
IN which the witnesses have disap peared,
In the Earle and Gtrvey case, the murder
Dt old Magdalna Z,llinger several of the
main wtnesses-An on ZIllinger, the hus-
band of the murdered woman Officer Cor
ot, and others-are Il rad