Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-05
THE union stockyards of Fort Worth
will soon become as well known through
out the Southwest as are the stockyards
of Kansas City, st. Louis and Chicago.
THE MAFId.

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| But Cor the timely interference of the
authorities the murder some days ago of
| Chief of Police Hennessy of New Orleans
! by the Dagoes would have resulted in o
wholesale determination of them by the
enraged people of that city. Unable to
! wreak summary vengeance on the miser-
I able tends of the Malta, popular indig-
nation pursued the more roundabout
way of raising a fund of $50 900 to hunt
down and prosecute to the bitter emu the
ignorant savages who live by black mail
ing and murder. The duty il now i'm
perative on the people of that city to put
down the murderous society known Us
the Malta, for If it should fail, there Is
no telling how many of those making the
attempt would ultimately be removed
as Hennessy was, for interfering with its
affairs.
The Mafa is band of sssassins organ
lied secretly and bound together by fear
full oaths, whose object is plumber black
mail and murder. 1t is a relic of its
namesake. once powerful in that part of
Italy Of which Naples is the metropolis,
and in the island of Sicily, where as
mountain brigands, the members carried
on up to quarter of q century ago q
wholesale system of robbery and murder
that made travelling in those parts ex-
tremely hazardous.
Under the energetic measures of Victor
Emanuel and the benevolent Humbert
the murderous brigands of the Malta, of
whom the notorious opposite was leader,
were scattered or bauished from the
country. opposite came with q number
of followers about fifteen years ago to
New Orleans, where he organized the
band of cut throats that has since grow
and prospered there. In 1881 he was
captured by Hennessy and returned to
the Italian government to be dealt with
IA his crimes deserved. For that, and
other things against the peace and dig
nifty of the Malta, Hennessy fell, US all its
victims have done, Oh dark and stormy
night, pierced with slugs.
The operations of this society have been
confined almost entirely to Italians, who
stand in such terror of it that, no mat
ter how horrible the crime, not a sciu-
tilla of evidence can ever be got.
Wealty Italians are Its principal victims,
who If they refuse when asked to put up
so much cash-to be deposited in desig-
mated spot-nre secretly nabbed, spirited
away and held until the desired SUN is
forthcoming. In case of refusal, or
any attempt to notify the authorities,
the stiletto may promptly enforce ST.
leuce, and the only record ever appear
ing is that at police headquarters read-
ing: 'Found dead: no clew!'
Immense sums of money have been ex-
tor;ed in this manner from wenlthy
Italians, OF whom there are said to be
considerable number in New Orleans, all
OF whom have been bled.
Chief Hennessy was the tbirtleth
victim of the Mafa in the last sixteen
years, and not in single cnse has the
assassin been discovered or punished.
Such is the extent, power, and the ter
ror which it has inspired among all
classes. And this reminds us once more
of the oft reiterated fact that America
has become the dumping ground of Eu-
ropes anarchists, uihilists, Red Repub-
lIcans, brigands. and the entire scum of
much protected factory barons have
sharked up aud brought over here by the
the ship load to make cheap things for
us. God bless 'em!