The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-03-19
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER

Mantle Defiance Brothers Convicted
| OF fMansiaughter-The Inevitable GUAR
ansine Question: Crooked Police Judge
"A Duel with Paper BuEets-
NEW ORLEANS, La, March Is. 1851
EDITOR CHTRR:
/ The city is no longer thronged with
| visitors and the streets seem almost de-
serted It is predicted that the summer
exodus Will be larger than last year, as
business in all it's branches has been IN
exceptionally fine during the entire win-
| ter season, whilst the money left IN the
| Crescent City by. the immense throng Of
strangers during the Nardi Gras festivI
ties has materially swollen the pockets
of cur business nlen- II such is the fact,
| New Orleans will be deserted, forsaken
and farlorn during the summer months,
for It is doubtful If you can find a per
sou who is rot willing aud anxious to
take "Trip to cooler elImes, particularly
| when the pocket is flush. Not that any
beneficial results will come out Of a
| Northern trip-saHris5s as a rule reJnrn
home dead broke in pocket, and some
/ times ditto in heaI5h-bu5 it is simply a
neyer-resting desire TO g go away for the
! summer and have the satisfaction of
| beas6Ing TO friends about d summer
tour North.' There vas a Rice joke Last
summer on young man who previous
TO his departure on one OF these beurs
vas always reminding hia friends that
he was ssgoiug of next week. A few
weeks after this beasting summer tourist
left the city, your correspondent had oc-
easian to visit Coviugron, aud the first
person he met was the aforesaid young
| man selling watermeions about the
streets OF that town on commission.
The tabEeau that followed npon mutual
recognition need not be described.
| Two New Orleans policemen have at
| last received their deserts in the form OF
temporary retirement i'll the Baton Rouge
peniten5iary. These ex-wieIders OF the
baten robbed a dead man of = watch
whilst conveying his body to the station
last July The evidence showed that the
peeIers, after having committed the
crime, went TO 3 pawn-shop and there
borrowed a small sum Of money On the
watch. 1t seems that they esuII rot
agree on the question of division, and
Que Of them squealed on the ether. Judge
Luzenberr sentenced them to one year
at hard labor in the State penitentiary
The DeRanee trial il over and the
iHry have found the prisoners guilty of
n1ansianghter. with a strong recennlen-
dlsian to the mercy of the court Tt is
q patent fact that the sympathy of the
public is with the de Rance brothers,
who were aetusstesI by the highest mo-
5ive-ahat OF preserving the honor and
good name OF their family-sa which it
was necessary that Edwin c. Mi should
have been checked in his unhoIy career
The demeanor OF the DeRanee srathers
during their trial was that Of men con-
seiaus that they had done their duty. IF
New Orleans desire TO see their wives,
daughters and sisters GO about the
streets unnoies5ed by Inseicns men, of
which the Crescent City has surfeit, if
they desire to see the time when an url-
protected female can walk our streets
without being approached and insnI5ed
by geu5eeI hoodlnsns, they Will appIaud
the action of the Defiance brothers There
are a large number of nlea In this. city
/. who take delight in aecpsting females on
the streets, and IN fact, only year OF
two ago. SO numerous We're the eani-
paper limited that a few lamp posts and
hemp rope, might properly he brought
into rea7lisitian TO cure the evil We
now notice, however. that the same pa
per maintains IL noticeable silence upon
al occasion when che very principle it
SO earnestly advocated Was carried into
practical operation. Il is openly stated
by those who are in a. position ta know,
that Judge Roman will intfict the light
est sen 5enee possible upon the Defiance
brothers, and that Immediately there
after petitions will be circulated through
who desire that the Governor should par
don the prisoners. The brathers ara
young men of considerable influence IN
their ward, aud 1t is not IL secret that
they were Instrumental in securing ten
votes for WiItz ii the nominating eon-
ven5Ion at Baton Rouge, and that at the
Last pafochi:lI election they carried their
wartt far uiie present criminal Sheriff,
Rebefg BGe wster. They receive the best
care possible ii she parish prison, being
assigned q room III the sky pssrtsr, al
together separated from the common
class Of prisoners. The ease VIII 20 TO the
Supreme Court On numerous bills Of ex-
cep5iou taken during the trial and
Aessrs. Cas6eIIsnas and Marrera are ex-
trenely sanguTne Of having the verdict
Of 5la jury set aside.
The Quarantine question is already be-
ing agi Iaaed aud It looks Is It the public
will have to subni5 once More Ea re-
hearsai OF the saa;ah bi Is OF hYgane days.
It IS doubtful however, ii the people OF
Louisiana vii. again be made the we
Tins of senseIese quarantine, As the
city a5 pres.nG Is free from sickness Of
any kind and medical men are unani-