The Donaldsonville chief., 1921-01-15
CRESCENT CITY DOINGS.
Street Car Crashes Into Wagon With
Fatal Results-Other Notes.

Stfeet Nar NfaSneS AnTo wagon Win
Fatal Results-Other Notes.
A terrible accident happened Sun
| day night at the intersection of Car
rolton avenue and Pritchard place
A St. Sharles belt car, going at a high
rate of speed, struck spring wagon
in which several Italian fanatics
were returning home from a picnic
in the woods in the vicinity of Ken
ner. As result of the accident Mrs.
Beatrice Geraci, 80 years old, had
her skull fractured; Philip Nascia
suffered fracture of the spine; his
wife, % years old, had her left arm
and ocular bone broken and her scalp
badly lacerated, and Joseph Nascia,
Mary Nascia and Nicholas and Frank
| Garaci and Florence Geraciy children
were badly bruised and shocked. The
hideous part of the accident was the
death of the two months old Gcracj
baby. The child was hurled through
the air, and falling on the track was
literally cut in two by the heavy cal
wheels. Several Of those injured ir
the accident are in a critical cOndl-
ton. The motorman and conductor
Eof the car were held on the charge
of manslaughter.
The Alhambra Baths, a resort fol
sporting men in Gravier street, was
raided by the police Monday, and the
proprietor and number Of the fre.
quenters of the place were arrested
charged with making hand books or
the races and gambling. The raiC
was carried on in true "dime novel
style, and the police, forcing the
lookouts, rushed upstairs, broke
down the doors and captured the
gamblers Several women, promi
nent in the best social circles, the po
lice claim, made bets in the places
These women were not captured II
the raid.
I District Attorney Mari is Wig
orously conducting his fight agains
gambling by betting at the race track
i Tuesday he ordered the arrest of five
bookmakers at the race course fo1
taking bets. Public bettors have no
been disturbed and the fight is be
ing directed against the book-1nakers
( In a sensational one-round fight a
i the Pillsbury Garden Monday night
Mickey Dillon Of Philadelphia, knock
ed out Red Watson of New Orleans
The men are bantans and were tt
1 have fought fifteen rounds. Th'
Knockout was a right to the jaw ant
came with awful suddeness whel
Watson was forcing Dillon in tn
! milling.
There was a rather sensational
controversy at meeting of the cit,
council Tuesday night, when Mayo
:, McShane accused the four commits
, |sioners of organizing against him t.
control patronage. The contrvers
was percipitated when Hon. Pau
: Maloney, commissioner of public uti]
ities, the only commissioner electe
on the regular ticket at the recen
Z Z tioTr, offered resolution order
! ing all departments to notify tn
council before they changed, or re
placed employees. At the tame meetin
a Mayor McShane went on record a
opposing "Blue Laws" as a seriou
handicap to business.
A corporation made up Of loea
! capitalists is being formed to bull
a two monster garages, each garag
9 having six stories and made of fire
E proof material. The project will cos
$4,OO0,OOO, and the garages whe
:, completed, will rank with the fines
,. in the country.
Joseph Hebers, Felix Touts an
Earle Wright, three young white me
arrested after a long chase by the pc
lice, are believed to be the chiefs o
J a desperate band of daylight bu1
a glars, who have been pillaging res
! dences in the fashionable up-tow
- section. In the rooms of the me1
!. the police recovered two wagon load
j. of loot.
Captain Mntgomery Snodgras;
:, " skipper of the schooner Bullard,. CON
y limited suicide in the cabin aboar
= his vessel Wednesday Of last wee
- by sending a bullet through his brain
~ The captain was in a disastrlou
y wreck last year in which he lost h
sailing vessel. He brooded upon tl
loss, and it is believed that was th
cause of his suicide.
Edward L. Mott, 46 years oil
| prominent in business circles, con
J. mitted suicide in room at the Ii
J. fayette Hotel Wednesday Of la
week, by aking pruissic acid. kno
as married and belonged to wei
'y known family.