The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-03-18
DISTRICT COURT

: Three Negro Murderers Plead
Guilty, Without Capital Punish.
ment-aIany Criminal Cases Dis
posed OF.
Sessions of court were held every day
this week, the third and last OF the regular
Jury term, and many important criminal
cases were taken up and disposed OF.
A record of the business transacted is
contained in the following summary:
Informations filed by district attorney
Anderson Irvine. carrying concealed
weapon; Jonas Dorsey. larceny; Pierre
Sanchez, Judson Nickens and Dr. B. Led
better. hunting without license.
CIVIL MATTERS.
Morris Corbo VS.. Felix Sagona; continued
to Monday. May I.
Consolidated Portrait and Frame Com
pany VS.. A. w. Norton ct ais; continued
to Tuesday, May 2.
Dennis Cassard vs. Curse ct ais; default
entered.
CRIMINAL MATTERS.
Henry White, breaking and entering
railroad car in the daytime; withdrew
former plea of not guilty and substituted
plea of guilty; remanded for sentence.
Anderson Irvine, carrying concealed
weapon; pleaded guilty; $1CO or four
months in jail.
Jonas Dorsey, larceny; pleaded guilty;
four months in Jail.
Adam Bernard, murder; withdrew former
plea of not guilty and substituted plea Of
guilty without capital punishment; re-
manded for sentence.
Dave Edwards, horse stealing; continued
indefinitely owing to absence of material
witnesses; bond fixed at $50.
Edna Bell, cutting and stabbing with a
dangerous weapon with intent to kill and
murder; withdrew former plea of not
guilty and substituted plea of guilty to
assault and battery; $50 or three months
in Jail.
Ferdinand Toca, embezzlement; tried by
judge and acquitted.
Calogero Napole, breaking and enter
ing railroad car in the nighttime with
intent to.steal; tried by jury and found
guilty of larceny to the amount of $100,
and costs. The jury in this case was
composed of R. F. Acy, j. Leo Landry,
Henry S. Martin, Anatole Esneault, Abra-
ham Argrave, Cornelius Devall Ulysses
Esneault, Oscar Arceneaux. D. H. Richard
son. Thos O. Chapman, Sam Grayois and
Clinton Chambers. Napole's attorney, c.
c. Weber, has filed a motion for a new
trial on the ground that the verdict as
rendered is contrary to the law and the
evidence, and is therefore not tenable.
George Doyal. shooting with intent to
kill and murder. After the evidence in
this case had been partially adduced coun-
sell for accused objected to any proof of
flight for the purpose of showing an in
terruption of prescription and the objec-
| tion was maintained by the court, where
upon the district attorney requested that
the court instruct the jury to render a
verdict of not guilty without leaving the
| Jury box This was done and the accused
was discharged The jury was composed
| of Oscar Areeneaux, H. S. Martin, Alcide
| Aucoin, Paul Dugas and Thomas Corbo.
Joseph Daniels, murder; mistrial Dam
iels, a negro, is accused of the murder of
another negro named Jesse Doe, the crime
| having been committed at levee camp
in the first ward Of this parish in February
of this year. The jury was constituted
as follows: Abraham Argrave. Charles
| Leblanc, Armand Babin, j. Leo Landry,
| Ulysses Esneault. SEVERN Braud, R. F.
| Acy, jackson McCrory Anatole Esneault,
Adolph Marchand. E. R. Hart and Louis
Anbert. After celebrating from 4:30
o'clock Wednesday afternoon to 2 O'Clock
Thursday morning, they reported to the
court that they were unable to agree on a
verdict and mistrial was entered The
jury is said to have stood eleven for guilty
as charged and one for guilty without
capital punishment. The accused was
represented by Attorney S. A. Marchand,
appointed by the court.
Adrien Williams, alias Hitter, murder;
withdrew former plea of not guilty and
substituted plea of guilty without CAPT
tai punishment. Williams was tried for
murder last week, but the jury failed to
agree. nine holding out for guilty as
charged, while three insisted on verdict
of guilty without capital punishment. He
is the negro who is accused Of shooting
and killing Isaac Murray, also colored, in
front of the Truxilo store in A Bend the
night Of Dec. 81 last.
Bruno Savoja and G. Resiano, receiving
stolen goods; tried by judge and acquitted.
Similar cases against Charles Trapani.
Paul Fontano Pasquale Palermo and
Tony Larino were nolle pressed by the
district attorney.
The charge against Toca was made by
H. j. Cohen, New Orleans manager OF the
William Grant Company of Philadelphia,