Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Lalomia, Louis - April 15, 1908
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
April 18, 1908, page 3


Italian Commits Suicide. - Louis Lalomia, a well-known Italian saloonkeeper of 
this town, committed suicide near his home at the corner of Lessard and Albert 
streets shortly before 11 o'clock last Wednesday night by shootieg (sic) himself 
three times with a 32 calibre (sic) Smith & Wesson revolver. One of the bullets 
was fired into the throat and emerged just below the left cheek bone; a second 
entered the right side and was found lodged beneath the skin on the left side of 
the body, and a third penetrated the abdomen just above the navel. It was the 
latter wound which proved fatal, death ensuing at 2:45 o'clock Thursday morning.

About 7 o'clock Wednesday evening Lalomia left his place of business in a 
restless and nervous condition, and upon reaching his home immediately went to 
bed. He seemed to be considerably worried and disturbed, and, being unable to 
sleep, got up and paced the floor for some time. Later he again sought his 
couch, but subsequently arose and asked his wife for his revolver, stating that 
he had to get out of the house as somebody was coming to murder him. The 
terrified woman begged her husband to allow her to accompany him, but he curtly 
refused her request and instructed her to remain at home. After securing his 
pistol, Lalomia walked out to the banquette and there shot himself three times, 
as stated above, falling almost into the arms of Officer Albert Gauthreaux, who 
happened to be in the vicinity at the time and was the first person to reach the 
side of the unfortunate man. Lalomia was carried into his residence and placed 
in bed, and upon being asked who had shot him he replied that he had attempted 
to kill himself because he was tired of living.

lalomia was a native of Italy and was thirty-two years, eleven months and 
fourteen days of age. For some time past his actions have been queer, and it is 
thought that he had become mentally unbalanced and took his own life while 
laboring under the delusion that somebody was trying to murder him. He leaves a 
wife and three young children and one brother, M. Lalomia, who was his partner 
in business.

The Lalomia brothers conducted the Grey Mule saloon in Railroad avenue, at which 
place it was alleged that Stephano Monfre, one of the principals in the 
celebrated Lamana kidnapping case, had stopped over night while fleeing from New 
Orleans last summer.

The funeral took place at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon under the auspices of the 
Societa Italiana di M.B. Conte di Torino, of which deceased was a member. 
Services were held at the Church of the Sacred Heart and interment was made in 
the Catholic cemetery.


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