The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-09

A MOUNTAINOUS MoLEH11L. The little
fracas that occurred at the third ward pol
during the town election last Saturday
morning has been made the basis of nc
less than five separate and distinet af1idavits
against the principal, Mr.. Jos. Bradford
ore for disturbance of the peace, one fol
assault and battery, one for carrying a
concealed weapen-a dirk-one for resist
ing an officer, and one for assault with q
dangerous weapon. The circumstances Of
the ARRAY as we have gathered them from a
number of eye-witnesses, are substantially
az follows. Mr.. Louis Wild, a candidate
for Town Treasurer, handed number of
his tickets to candidate for Alderman
from the third ward, with a request that
they be placed on the table in front of the
Commissioners. Noticing that his name
was not on the tickets, the candidate for
Alderman showed them to one of his BROTH
ers, who tore them up aud threw them in
the gutter. Mr.. Bradford, who was warm
ly supporting Mr.. Wild, thereupon struck
the young man who had first taken the
tickets, knocking him down. The brother
rushed forward and was in turn knocked
down by Mr.. Bradford, who was thereupon
seized by Policemen Carroll and Butler,
who started with him up the front street.
Meeting Sergeant Fernandez, the prisoner
requested that official to take him in GUS
tody. The Sergeant relieved his subordi-
mates of their charge and escorted Mr..
Bradford to the Jail from whence he was
soon after paroled by direction of the May
or. It is claimed that the accused attemp-
ted to draw knife on Policeman Carroll,
but we understand that this is denied by
Mr.. Bradford and his friends. On Monday
Officer Carroll and the brother of the Alder
manic candidate made the af6davits above
mentioned and Judge Duffel directed that
the accused be bailed in the sum of $50 on
each Of the four charges coming within the
jurisdiction of the District Court. The
bonds were at once furnished and the &C.
cused released. Judging by this statement
of the ARRAY, there is some blame to be laid
upon all parties concerned. The tearing
of the tickets, for instance, was an unjusti-
fable action, which the parties involved no
doubt regretted upon sober second thought,
and the same may be said of the assault
that followed. There was undoubtedly
some degree of provocation to be urged in
extenuation on both sides, but the bitter
attack upon Mr.. Bradford which appeared
in the columns of our local contemporary
last week was probably the most uncalled
for feature of the whole affair. There is a
general impression among those whom we
have heard discuss the matter that. had
positions of the parties with reference to the
town election been reversed, the Democrat
would have roared over it as gently as a
sucking dove, if indeed, it had roared at all,
and this opinion is certainly justified by the
conduct of the paper in preceding cam
paigns. If the prosecution of and venom
Gus assault upon Mr.. Bradford are not
ultimately sought to be used as means of
whipping him into subsection to the will of
our local political AIMS, then the CHIEF
and good many other people will be great
" out of reckoning in their calculations.
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