The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-12
KILLED ON SPEEDWAY
HORSENIAN JAMES M'DONALD'S FA-
TAI RACE ON FAMOUS DRIVE.
Italian Banker VincenzO Garagusi As
sassinated-Series of Sunday
Tragedies in Gotham.

NEW YORK, Dec 1.-THE Sunday death
increased by causes that ran the gamut
from suicide to murder. The most spec
tacular tragedy of the day occurred on the
Speedway. Thousands of people who had
gathered there to watch the speeding gazed
eagerly at what they thought was a race.
1t was at first, but it ended in a runaway
and James Mcdonald, a prominent Tam
many man and one of the best known horse
men in the city, was carried to the Manhat-
tan Hospital, dying six hours later. McDon-
aid had taken fast horse to the speedway
for a warming and had been challenged by
a friend to a test of speed. The horses went
along at a furious pace, with the thousands
of spectators applauding the brush. Then
with a mighty effort McDonald's horse took
the bit and with defiant toss of his head
SHOT to the front. Two blocks ahead the
speedway was impossible to the flyers, and
Mcdonald, realizing this, stood up in his
rig and, dropping one rein gave the other
a mighty jerk. He threw his horse. killing
it. He himself was pitched high into the
air and some twenty feet forward, falling
on the hard road. His skull was fractured.
Vincenzo Garagusi, an Italian banker and
and killed IN front of his home on Broome
street tonight, the bullet piercing his heart.
Lawrence Priore, Il drug clerk, employed
in a drug store nearby, was arrested and is
charged with the murder. Two policemen
who were standing about fifty feet away
from the scene of the tragedy heard the first
shot and declare they saw Priore fire the
second shot They Immediately arrested
drug store, made the statement that Cara
gust and Priore had a quarrel last night
over a game of cards and had frequently
quarreed before, and it is believed by the
police that Priore killed the banker for re-
venge.
William Walters, twenty-eight years old,
bought 10 cents worth of carbolic acid to-
day and after kissing his wife and child
goodbye, said he would go and call his
mother. He stopped at his mothers home
but a few moments and when leaving drank
the contents of the bottle. He died en- route
to a hospital.
Catherine Werner, factory girl twenty
five years old, drank carbolic acid to-day
and died shortly after her removal to the
Flower Hospital.
Thomas NIcKeever, thirty-one years old, a
freight agent at Roselle, N. j., was found
dead in bed in an apartment in "Soubrette
row." this morning. The cause assigned by
the coroner was heart disease.
Elizabeth Clinton, sixty-four years old,
was burned to death in her home on Bed
ford street Her clothes became ignited by
the bursting of a kerosene lamp.
Hilda Hesse, fourteen years old, took
carbonc acid at her home, in Hoboken, to-
day and died shortly afterward. A quarrel
with her father and stepmother is said to
have made her despondent.
A man believed to be Peter Thompson, of
Brooklyn, fell or jumped off a dock in
Brooklyn He was taken out of the water
alive, but died at a hospital from the
shock
David Walsh, twenty-five years old, Of
Hoboken, while walking along the tracks in
the Erie Railroad yard at Hoboken to-day
got his foot caught in a switch and was
killed by train of coal cars backing on the
track where Walsh was caught.