The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-03-09
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DIT SaFfiefe, miSS.-intended
. Go to Gufport and Sail fo
Foreign country-Ciaims self-D,
fense-TriaI Fixed for March 1;
Rafael Dominguez Velanti ger
orally known as Rafael Doming III
spaniard who murdered DEPUTY In
ternal Revenue Collector Josenl
! Gouaux in this city the morning O
Feb. %, was arrested Wednesday a
| Carriere, Miss, by Deputy Sheriff
Luclen Acosta, Jr., Of Donaldsonyille
who had been despatched to the
Mississippi town for that purpose
The officer and his prisoner arrived
mere on the 1925 o'clock T. and p
train Wednesday night.
Several days ago Sheriff E. G.
Hanson received letter from r
| Harbeson, ST., an employee of a
lumber mill at Carriere, stating that
a foreigner, answering to the gen.
eral description of the fugitive Span.
lard, had arrived at Carriere a few
days before and obtained employ
ment in a gang constructing a log
glng road. The writer inquired if
any reward had been offered for the
capture of the murderer, and asked
the sheriff to forward a full descrip-
ton of the man Mr.. Hanson at
once communicated with Harbeson,
informing him that a reward of $40
would be paid for the arrest of the
opanlard, and giving a detailed de-
scrlption of the fugitive. Another
letter from HARRISON, received here
tuesday, conveyed the information
mat the man under surveillance was
undoubtedly the murderer, and Sher
lift Hanson Immediately despatched
Deputy Acosta to Carriere to make
the arrest
Arriving at the Mississippi town
early Wednesday morning, the Off
Ger secured horse and buggy and
drove five miles into the interior,
expecting to find Doming at work
With the gang building the logging
road in the swamps. Upon reaching
mis- destination, however, Mr.. Acosta
ascertained that the Spaniard had
not reported for work that morning.
owing to having mashed his finger
the day before. The officer then re-
turned to Carriere, and, in company
With a deputy sheriff of that place, |
went to the boarding house where
oomlng was lodging. After explain
ng his mission to the proprietor of /
he establishment, Mr. Acosta and
he Mississippi deputy entered the
louse and discovered the Spaniard
seated at table in the dining-room.
With his back to the hall by which
hey had approached Covering the
'paniard with his revolver, Mr.
Acosta called the fugitive by name
nd ordered him to throw up his
ands, which he very promptly did.
he arrest was effected quietly and 1
5ithout the least trouble, no oppor-
unity having been given the prison
70 make a display Of resistance
sOffIcer Aeosta Informed Sheriff
lansons over the 1ong-d;stanee tele-
nome non Vednesda " morning that he
I'D arrested Doming, but as the ut
lost secrecy was observed in the II
latter by the authorities, very few 1
7rsons here knew that the fugitive
ad been. apprehended until the Of
Ger and his prisoner arrived Wed
esday night -
Doming was arraigned in the district y
'urt Thursday morning and entered
plea of not guilty to the indictment
II murder which was returned
sainst him by the grand jury last b
eek. His trial was fixed for Wed h
esday, March IS, and he was re- 3
anded to jail h
The prisoners version of the trag-
" and the circumstances leading D
to it is substantially the same as h
at CLEANED from the eye-witnesses, N
I'd particularly does it eorroborate b
every important detail the story ID
lated by the young saloon man b
no was one Of the party accompany u
g Mr.. Gouaux at the time be met RI
8 death. The Spaniard declares d
at the trouble had it's inception at u
Ia Wise's house in the redlight dis q
ct, where he was Violently elected %
I'm a room occupied by Mr.. Gou- q
K and his friends, to which apar1- d.
ent he had insisted on forcing an u
trance. He says that Mr.. Gouaux u
ndled him very roughly, and struck q
q terrific blow oyer the ear while b
shing him through the door. II
aving the house, Doming says he a
sht, 70 MS nome and armed him Cd
Il with his poeket-knife, after II
llch he proceeded to Paul Fon- ID
1a's saloon at the corner Of st. Il
trick and Albert streets, where he d
d a drink with some young men -
met there. A few minutes later tr
left, with the intention of return al
to the Wise brothel, ard while he
liking out Albert street in the di- ri
,tion of St. Vincent he encountered tt,
party of three men, walking single ca
;, and about Is or 80 feet apart re
says he passed the first man, M
d was in the act Of passing the Ia
'ond when the latter called out err
ook out, Joe, here comes the III
a; shoot him, shoot him, wi
ck!" This remark, the Spaniard 10
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