| Show SHOOTING Arr AFFAIRS mits this city of saints saint is fast acquiring a wide reputation for crimes of the highest degree arid and of every type some three murder cases ate are pending in in tile the district court now in session and this week we are called upon to record another on wednesday night last a pistol was aas discharged near the canvas of the cir circus during the performances two men named rhodes and mcneil it was soon ascertained certa ined were involved in an altercation hence the pistol report nothing definite I 1 could be arrived at concerning the matter rhodes charging aveneil with wilh the firing of tle tie pistol and vice versa there wit was no convicting proof on either side on friday tight night last under the lilie screen of darkness mcneil received a mortal wound in the agonies of which he lingered until last sunday morning when death came to his relief the man rhodes fled immediately after the infliction of the wound which fact in addition to other strong circumstantial evidence seems seeing to fasten indelibly upon his hig skirts the blood of mcneil according cording according kc to the affidavit 0 of mcneil in in articolo art arti lc ulo culo mortis lie he testifies tes tifis that after after he ha had ha retired he had occasion occasion to go down upon passing on to the street lie he met lot I 1 giunti atri with whom he passed salutations that immediately afterwards a person walked wa ill ed towards him with as lie he supposed the intention of shaking hands that when within a yard of him the person to him unknown shot him upon the individual starting off he drew his revolver and fired twice tn in the direction his assailant was proceeding lie ile describes his hia assailant as a choit stout stoat man ron n lot huntington was examined before judge sinclair and acquitted on the tb charge cha rge of being I 1 I 1 implicated implicate A in the murder but held to bail as a witness tile the coroner was very dilatory se several veral I 1 0 urs dav having afi g eta pie acce r afie he death of mcneil before the inquest was held we IV e have not yet learned what the veral verdict etwas was tile the coroner refused and the city ity authorities failed to take tae any steps towards the burial of the murdered man which was from tile the circumstances a case demanding immediate attention and a subscription was raised and the unfortunate stranger buried by the exertions of thomas S williams esq mcneil was a resident of fairfield neld and had come I 1 to the city to attend to a case tn in court courtin in which m aich he be has bas a suit sult against some 0 of f the heads of the church claiming damages to the amount of fifty thousand dollars for false imprisonment in the winter and spring an of 57 and 58 we understand that be has a wife and child living in Fair fairfield fiel d we do da not know where rellis his native P place lace w was as but hear that helias a brother who has been for in many any years comptroller ot of the city i of new orleans |
