The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-10-20
OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRIM


ganzed Criminals-Iiarry Hill, VIII,
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genatioE, Politics., business, Etc.
New York October 49, 1888
EDITOR CHIEF:
Scarcely q week passes but that some
thing occurs III the city which makes me
wish was cowboy, or q road agent, OF
in fact a member of any other similar rep
utable profession.
A crime occurred here this week which
has no parallel for dovilish brutality even
among the half savage white men and wild
| Indians on the frontier. hard working
lrishman lived in the upper part of the
| city with his family, which consisted of his
wife and two daughters, young and comely
girls. While the family were seated about
the table, couple of young rutIians walked
into the room, locked the door, and in tho
presence of the parents commenced an as
sault upon the girls. The father imme-
diately rushed to his daughters assistance,
and was knocked down and jumped upon
by one Of the brutes. The wife rushed in
and was brutally beaten. Thon gang of
ruffians on the outside came to their
friends assistance, and Us the neighbors
the affrighted girls, the Williams rushed out
and escaped
The sight that presented itself was hor-
rible. The two young girls who fought for
their virtue like young tigers, were covered
with BLOOD the face of ono being terribly
distiurcd. Tho father lay apparently life
less ON the floor. The mother was severe
ly wounded, and almost every bit of cloth
ing torn from her body, and the furniture
was broken i'll pieces, and the entire place
in complete ruin. 1t gives but an Indifferent
opinion of our civilization to nations abroad
to read that such an infamous outrage is pos
sible in crowded city like New York.
About two thousand police and peace Of
ticers are supposed to be constantly watch
ing over our safety. We annually expend
millions for their maintenance, but in time
of need they are seldom near, and in this
case not policeman appeared at all, and
if it had not been for the interference of
the neighbor5, the unfortunate girls might
have been outraged in the presence of
their parents, and the parents might have
been murdered for daring to strike in their
defense.
This terrible result is the outcome of our
present political organization. The keeper
of some whisky saloon or low gambling
den wants to run for Alderman, SO he Or
ganizes the Michael Duffy Association -
or the "Patrick Flannigan Coterie," or
the "Limerick Fusiliers," F." or some such
organization in which all the young roughs
OF the neighborhood join. They soon dis
cover that i'll union there is strength. If
one of the gang is arrested, the rest are un-
der al immoral obligation to rescue him if
they can, Or failing in that to beat or MAIN
the policeman. There seems to be consid-
cradle emulation among them to see who
can do the most evil things. visit to the
penitentiary involves no disgrace, but on
the contrary, is esteemed quite an honor
member of the association is hardly
thought fit to graduate till he has become
a tough; that is to say, till he has killed
his man, or at least done his best to do it. |
There is not a ward in the city but is cursed
with these organized gangs banded togeth- |
er for crime. They are outlaws in the |
worst sense, and should be shot down like |
other wild beasts, without the intervention !
Of Judge or jury.
We have laws against prize fighting, yet |
Harry Hill, not a block from the police
headquarters, can give a sacred concert on
Sunday night at his den, with soft gloves,
according to the Marquis of Queensbury's
,ules, and it is ten to one that the Alder
nan Of the ward is not in there on dead
lead ticket to see the fun, and will sit there
while the church bells are tolling, i'll the
company of prostitutes, sluggers, and
hieves, drinking champagne furnished D.
4. by the gentlenanly and generous prop
'ietor.
Think of it. This ignorant rutiian is the
III all the great prize fights.
This is in itself a criminal ofense, but the
aw never reaches him. He has at Babylon,
long Island, a sort of slugger's paradise
lie runs his own steamboat, and calls it the
Harry Hill" Occasionally for the amuse-
nent of our aesthetic Wall street brokers
larry gets up a slueging match at his coun-
~ seat. Only the creme &c la creme are