The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-05-25
PARTICULARS or THE BOURBON
STREET TRAGEDY. g
What the Injured Parties Have to So
About IL.

II fefTiDle snOOblnE array IO0K pace
yesterday afternoon on Bourbon. be
tween Canal and Customhouse streets
between the notorious Matt Hogan, Ton
Houlfhan and Cbas. Trump on the one
side. and Mr.. Laresche and John r
Barrett on the other.
From eye witnesses the circumstances
attendant on the meeting are MS follows
Barrett, together with Taresche, after
his conviction left the courthouse. walk
ed up Royal street to Canal. up Canal
and turned down Bourbon. and had
lust passed Customhouse street when
they met Hogan and HoulihaD.
Hogan, being Of the turn Of mind That II
was n good time to chastise Barrett.
walked up to him and dealt him blow
with his cane, whereupon Laresche in
terferred. and pushing Hogan off said
he was an officer Of tho law and that he
would protect Barrett. and while he
could prevent 1t no harm should come to
him. Hogan responded "d-d-n the
law" Laresehe then remarked II will
arrest you ~ Hogan replied, ''yon dare
not," and drew back rs II to draw a
weapon with Hogan's motion Larescbe
drew his pistol and fired, cauetng Hogan
to retreat towards Canal street,
holding his hand on his abdomen. as II
to ease the pain OF his wound. La
resohe followed and fired again at the
retreating Hogan.
At this juncture Houlihan drew his
pistol and fired at Laresche, who. after
being wounded, staggered on, and while
passing Holmes dry goods store, Houli-
han, who was concealed behind post.
fred the second shot at Isaresche, which
caused him TO fall to the banquet on his
pistol arm Houlihan then approached
the PROSTATE man. and fired two shots,
but without effect. At this junoture of
the bloody tragedy Officer Sherman.
who was not on duty put In an appear
ance. Mt the sight Of the Officer Houli-
han was making u hasty retreat and
while doing so he fire parting shot.
which was returned by the officer. CIV
ing him three balls. but without effect.
Houlihan then turned out Customhouse
street, and when In the middle OF the
block. between Bourbon and Dauphine,
whore surrendered.
Lnresche was taken to the drug store
Of Messrs. Aleix Il daudet. where his
wounds were examined, and found that
he had been mortally wounded. having
been shot In the abdomen near the
umbilicsl cord. also on the rear Of the
left shoulder near the blade, and In tho
back on the left side near the hip. the
bullet ranging in and across
A DEMOCRAT reported interviewed
oil the parties concerned, and the fol-
lowing is their statement.
Upon being Informed that his wounds
were mortal ilaresche made the fol-
lowing
Eyes, / am played out, know / can
not live. ! was walking with Barrett
towards Espianade street. when in
o.. r...I A..
were following us. l said, let us keep
back and see what they will do. (Tbe
party. following then seems to have
come up) Matt Hogan then struck
Barrett. turned around and attempted
to prevent Hogan from doing SO. Hogan
then struck me, at tho same time put
ting his hand behind him. l then drew
my pistol and fired. Tom Houlihan then
pulled his pistol and shot me. wounding
me. After shooting at me again he ran,
after was shot twice, and got behind
he fired at mo again. Then they all ran
(meaning Hogan, Houlihan, the man
with the scar. and an unknown man,
and after them. l fell against q post
and tried to keep up by holding against
II. 1t was then that Houlihan came
up and
DELIBERATELY
shot me in the back. was also fired
on by the man with the light moustache.
blue coat and scar on his face.
"They were after Barrett. and wanted
to murder him wanted to murder both
Of us-they were paid to do 50 by Nor
ton
The priest administered the last unc-
tion, after some of these statements,
and before others.
Laresche at the same time said that
the shot in his back was given by Hou
Than and the one in his abdomen by |
the man with a scar. Laresche was re-
moved TO his mothers. on Royal street, |
near Ursulines street.
HOGAN
did not stop running until exhausted, |
when he crossed Canal street and at
Jamison $ store took n carriage for the |
hospital. When interviewed he declined
to make a statement, saying only that
Laresche shot him. His wound, IL is |
thought will prove fatal, the bullet first
grazing his right arm at the elbow,
and alodging in his abdomen on the
right side.
HOULIHAN.
II left Hogan at the Bank, on Canal
street, and started for Wenger's to get |
Laresche was talking to a party and |
Barrett stopped me. He asked me
where he could see me that night, and,
as / was replying, Hogan came up and
struck him. Laresehe got hold OF HO-
gan and made q motion to draw pistol. |
Hogan asked him why he did so. La
resche got out his pistol and shot.
turned and ran and he followed me.
SHOOTING
at me. his first bullet passing through
my clothes. Here Houlihan showed
his coat, vest and shirt where the bullet
had passed through on the right side.)
then got behind q screen concern on
post at Holmes and while there was shot
through the coat tail, exhibiting the
bullet hole) After that don't know
more except l ran, and when /
learned it was an officer behind me /
Idon't know the men who
were with Hogan"
Rarratt after the first shot skipped