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New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana
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Various cases of theft, assault, vagrancy, and other offenses were heard in the First, Second, and Third District Recorders' Courts, resulting in trials, dismissals, fines, and sentences to the Workhouse.
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FIRST DISTRICT.—A negro, John Trial, was examined before Recorder Ahern yesterday, on a charge of stealing crockery and andirons of the value of $5 from F. Schmidt, and was sent before the First District Court for trial.
The charge against F. P. Gertz, for larceny of jewelry and wearing apparel, with sixteen dollars, from James Moran, was dismissed, the prosecutor not appearing.
An investigation of a complaint against Frank Buford, for stealing a load of wood from a pile belonging to Archibald Calhoun, on the new shell road, resulted in the discharge of the accused.
A charge against James Rourke of assaulting and cutting Peter Riley, with intent to kill, was dismissed by request of the aggrieved party.
Alexander White was arraigned on the affidavit of Charles Lovell, charging him with appropriating to his own use the sum of $59, collected for the complainant and another person. The case was set for the 7th of next month.
Wm. Russell was brought to the bar to answer a charge of stealing $73 from the residence of Eliza A. Simpson, No. 180 Washington street, on Sunday last, and an investigation of the complaint was fixed for Wednesday next.
Frank Andress is to be examined on the sixth of next month, upon a charge preferred by Joe. Madden, deputy warden of the Workhouse, of drawing a revolver, cocking it and pointing it at affiant's face, threatening him with personal violence.
Paddy Carroll alias Paddy the Bull, was examined on a charge of assault and battery on the person of Mary Kennedy in August last. The charge was dismissed, but Carroll was required to give bonds to keep the peace.
Eliza Dudley, colored, for pilfering, and James Henderson, a vagrant, were sentenced to the Workhouse for six months; Mary Donohoe arrested for stealing a chemise from a negress; Mary Lawler, an incorrigible drunkard; George Webster, negro, and Patrick Ney, found asleep on the streets, for ninety days; John Robinson and Cornelius Coltman, discovered asleep in an omnibus, and A. G. Mason, for vagrancy, sixty days.
Edmund De Shay, negro, for driving a leaky nuisance cart; David Farner for being asleep in his cab on a stand, and Mary Anderson, for being abusive and disturbing the peace, were fined $10 each; John Wheelan for threatening Jeremiah Shea; Oliver Diggs, Jefferson Brown and Wily Blue, three negroes who refused to pay for a cab they had hired, and John J. Dugan, for being drunk and insolent to citizens on the streets, $5 each, and William Townsend, negro, for sleeping on the streets, and John Slater, James Kelley and Charles Bosworth, for drunkenness $2.50 each.
SECOND DISTRICT—George Leesner, who with his wife, made an attack upon H. Boisblanc, was fined $5.
Ten other fixed cases, mostly of assault, were dismissed.
Nelly Adams and Anna Mason, for disturbing the peace, were fined $5 each or thirty days' to the Workhouse.
Gustave Gustavius, Baptiste Capdeville and Anthony Green, were fined $5 for drunkenness.
THIRD DISTRICT.—George Brown, colored, and J. Myer, charged with larceny, had their cases continued. A. Ferguson, colored, was sent for trial before the First District Court for carrying concealed weapons. This offense is getting to be one of every day occurrence and some more effective remedy than is now used should be adopted. Most of the negroes in this city, it is well known, are provided with guns, muskets, pistols, revolvers, etc. Louis Schoff, alias Billy, was sent before the First District Court for assault and battery on Buck Porter, colored. Chas. Carroll was fined $5 for getting according to his own account, "a little excited"—with liquor. John Murphy for indulging too freely in the "ardent" was made to pay a similar amount. Henry, alias Larry Collins, was arrested at 3 P. M. yesterday for highway robbery. This is the man it will be remembered who assaulted Judge Duvigneaud on the Gentilly Road, and took his gun from him. The general appearance of Henry does not speak in his favor. "Capt. W. Fothergill, of the steamship Mexican, was arrested for assault and battery on John Wright, steward of said ship.
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cases resulted in trials set, dismissals, discharges, bonds to keep peace, sentences to workhouse (6 months, 90 days, 60 days), fines ($10, $5, $2.50 each), continuations, and arrests for further investigation.
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Multiple defendants were examined in Recorders' Courts across First, Second, and Third Districts for charges including theft of crockery, wood, jewelry, money, wood; assault and battery; vagrancy; drunkenness; disturbing peace; carrying concealed weapons; highway robbery; with outcomes varying by case.