The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, February 23, 1890
SWEETMEATS VS. TAMALES
About
10 o'clock Wednesday night cries and
imprecations in a mixed jargon of
Spanish, Italian and English
proceeding from the vicinity of the
sweetmeats stand on the White
Elephant corner drew a crowd to the
spot
to see what was the matter.
The first to arrive found
Louis
Lopez, the Mexican Tamale man who
usually stands at McConnell &
Hogg's corner, bleeding profusely
from a number of knife wounds that
Gaspardo Rhoda, the Italian keeper
of the sweetmeats stand had just
inflicted upon him. Lopez was
taken to the drug store of Dr.
Wallace and his cuts attended to.
He was found to have one quite
serious wound in the breast, 2 deep
gashes in the legs and one through
each arm near the shoulder.
After being fixed up he was
taken to
his home, in Taylortown, where he
now lies in a rather serious
condition, but with prospects of
recovery. Marshal James
arrived
upon the scene a few minutes after
the stabbing, but the Italian had
taken his departure. Fearing
that he would get out of town during
the night, the police were set to
watch all the outbound trains, but
the precaution was unnecessary as he
appeared at his stand Thursday
morning, and was there arrested.
He states that Lopez called
him
a s--- of a b--- and that was why he
stabbed him. When the
Mexican gets able to appear in court
Rhonda will have a hearing, when
he will undoubtedly be bound over to
the county court.
