New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-28
Tragedy in San Antonio.

| Tragedy in San Antonio.
| From the San Antonio Express.l
San Antonio was on Monday evening the
site of the enactment of a tragedy perfectly
terrible in its accompanIments, and send
| ing a thrill of horror through our entire
community. The Main Plaza and Wards
Hotel thereon is the spot where the dark
and damnable murder was committed, and
| so h0rrifying are the details that we can
| notjbut attribute insanity to the unfortunate
man who is now imprisoned to answer for
| taking the life of q man who had been his
| friend and companion.
| We have only been able to gather few
| particulars of the terrible affair, and hasten
| to lay what few we possess before the peO-
| pie. Two comparative strangers to our
city, Doctors Lindsay and Smith, have oc-
| cupied the same room at Wards Hotel, the
| one hailing from Charlestown, and the other
| Doctor smith,, from Illinois. On Monday
| they quarreled about something, and for
| the time separated, after, it seems, bitter
burning words passing between them.
Lindsay, smarting under some affront
or imagined affrOnt, seemed to grow
hourly more and more indignant and ner-
yOus, and at last procured a revolver and
started up to the room where Smith was
1t is said he was met and disarmed by the
proprietor, Mr.. Ward and paciied in
measure lby the soothing words of Mr..
Ward, who desired to preserve peace in his
house.
Lindsay retired from the place for
while, but about quarter past seven
o'clock again returned, and it seems made
his way to the room where DR.. Smith was
lying down ON the bed. Whether any adj
ditional words passed between them or
not we can not say, but the anger or in
sanity of Lindsay got the better of him,
and he shot Smith twice, while Smith was
lying down, and then advanced to the bed
and grappled him, placing, so it is said, the
pistol against Smiths body to make sure of
his victim.
With the desperation of dying man,
Smith essayed to cast him from HIM. and
Lindsay was covered with the hot blood of
his friend and companion that had been.
So desperate was the struggle, that the
hands of the dead man, when found, held
within their grasp handfuls of the beard of
Lindsay, evidently wrenched from Lindsay
in the death struggle.
The alarm was speedily given, and Lind
say, drunk with excitement of the affair,
was found and hurried off to Jail, while hun
dreds of people who heard the alarm flocked
to the plaza and gave ear to the wild, mad
rumors that were drawn in with every
breath.
A fearful sight was the corpse of the muir
dered man, and with blanched faces and
contracted brows a hastily summoned jury
gathered around it to take the facts into
notice, and render their decision accord
ingly. Wild as was the sight, mere
CHASTITY spectacle was the man with the
brand of Cain upon him. His hands, his
face, his tclothing covered with blood.
while to inquiries as to what he had done,
he returned the unconscious insane reply
that he supposed he had killed somebody.
San Antonio, with all its history, has sell
dom chronicled so terrible tragedy as that
of the evening of June 49, 1871. We shall
try and obtain more full particulars and
lay them before our Mortified readers
The Chicago Tribune reports the death of
a well known actress:
Charles Getzler, of this city, received a
dispatch from Sacramento yesterday an
nouncing the death. on the seventeenth, of
actress, who was under engagement with
Messrs. MoVicker & Myers, to fill the po-
sition of ''leading lady" for the ensuing
season. She was born at Blue Island, in
this State, in 1915, and at the age of five
years she left Illinois with her parents for
California. She began her theatrical ca
reer as a dancer in the "GOlden State" when
quite a child. Her name was familiar
with every one, young and old, from Cali
popular at Maguire's Opera House, San
Francisco, where she made her debut some
years since. No one acquainted with Sue
RObinson's character, socially or profession
ally, can mark one blot on her career in this
world. AS an estimate of her versatility,
she was equally clever as Lady Macbeth
Nan, the Good. for-Nothing Pauline, Irion
or any character in the range of the drama.
AS singer she possessed a clear soprano
cha ho1 he
California stage. A kind open hearted
friend to one and all-the first to aid her
brother and sister artists. She leaves two
children. She was kind, gentle mother;
a great loss to her home and her profession.
The Alexandria Democrat of the twenty
first says:
The past week has been one OF anxiety
and excitement to our people. The main
cause of this is the state of the river and
weather. The former is still very high, be-
ing only four inches below the high water
mark of 1867, has risen four inches since our
last, and up to Monday noon, was little
on the swell. All reports from above con-
cur in a fall as low down as Grand EcOre,
and at a stand there. Somehow or other
however, this fall is long reaching Alexan-
dria. AS for the weather, with the excep-
ton of two lone days. rain has been our
portion the balance of the time. The crops
of Rapides, if they may be called crops, are
in the worst possible condition, and almost
past redemption. We are in the bounds of
the truth in asserting that not three days
good work has been done since the fifteenth
of May. We consider the corn crop an en-
tire failure; this and this alone, is boundlto
entail almost misery on cur people. We
really dread to look to the future of
Rapides, for we seem to be doomed people.
Still we hope for the better day
This is from the Bay St. Louis Gazette:
in the opening of the bar at the mouth of
Galveston harbOr, have come to New Or
leans to make some ARRANGEMENTS about