Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-18
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Supposed Assassin of the New CLEANS
Chief Dead.
SHOT DOWN IN THE CITY PRISON.
His Assassin Newspaper Worker and Rela-
tive Of Sporting Man.
DYING MURDERER PLEADS INNOCENCE.
Immense Crowd st the Funeral Of the Lsss chisf 4
Polies Hsnnsssey.

NEW ORLEANS, October 17.-Antonio
Scaffidi, identified as one of the assassins Of
Chief Hennessey, was shot and mortailv
wounded at 2:45 o'clock to-day, in the
Parish prison, by Thomas II. Duffy,
young man % years of age. The shooting
was done in the corridor Of the prison build
ing, and Dufy's actions were so quick that
several deputies who were present knew
nothing OF what was happening until the
shot was fired.
Duffy, who is brother of Prof. Duffy,
the boxing instructor OF the Southern Ath-
letic Club. is a very unassuming young
man, and has been connected with the
various newspapers of this city in the car
riers' department. He is at present en-
ployed in the office of the Spirit Of the
South, which papers he gave out to the
newsboys and carriers. He resides at 19
st. Louis street, and has been a frequent
visitorat the parish prison to see some friends
who were incarcerated there. He was always
quiet and acted in peaceable manner when
ever he visited the institution, and it was
this fact that threw the deputies off their
guard for the time being.
DUFFY ENTERS THE PRISON.
At 1145 O'Clock this morning he appeared
at the outside gate and was admitted by
Deputy Sheriff Fortier. Dify informed
Deputy Sheriff o. S. Andry that he called
tor the purpose of seeing one of the "dagoes"
arrested for the assassination OF Chief Hen
nessey, as he believed that he was able to
identify him. He asked for Scafidi.
Presently Scafidi came down, accompanied
by Deputy Sheriff Tim Dwyer. The Italian
shufled along the corridor until he
reached the inside gate, when he put
his face within a few inches of the gate to
recognize who it was that wanted to see
him. As he did so, Duffy, who was stand
ing about a foot from the gate, with
Lightning like motion with his right hands
drew a revolver from his hip pocket. and
putting it within few inches Of Scafidi's
face, pulled the trigger The weapon was
discharged with a loud report, and the
Italian. with groan fell back in the cor
ridor, the blood squirting from wound in
the left side of the neck. Deputy Sheriff
Andry was standing within three feet of
Duffy when he fired the shot, and behind
him was standing Deputy Sheriff Forter
and Officer Freitag.
PLACED UNDER ARREST.
Duffy was grasped by these three. men
and d1sarmed, while Deputy Dwyer, who
was beside Scafidi when he was shot, at
tended to the wounded man. The ambulance
was summoned, and pending its arrival
Duffy was removed to the Fourth precinct
station, which is situated in the parish
prison. where he gave his name and address.
The revolver, a 32-calIber, with five cham
bers empty and one loaded, was held az
evidence. While in the station Duffy
said that if the italian died he was
a. d. o.
II only wish there was about IS more men
like me-" After his name and the charge
had been recorded, Duffy was conveyed to
the Central station by Officer Freitag. He
was interrogated by Captain Journee and
Secretary Vandervort, and then taken back
to the Fourth precinct, where he was locked
up.
When the wounded man reached the
Charity Hospital, Judge NJ. S. Bringier was
sent for, and with his assistant, Judge HoI-
lander, arrived in few minutes. Scafidi
was asked if he had ANYTHING to say before
he died, and replied iu the affirmative. He
began his statement by saying: 1--WE knew
Chief Hennessey and the Provenzanos were
good people. We were good friends of
Matranga.
THE PRISONER PLEADS INNOCENCE.
81 am going to die and 1 die inne-
cent lou know me, u uOge. always was
o good boy. My idea is that the Matrangas
did that to keep the ProYenzanos in Jail. 1
was friendly to all them, the Matrangas, the
Provenzanos and Hennessev. That's ALL
Oh, my God. L am going to die!''
And Scafidi closed his eyes and re-
mained silent. At this moment Father
O'Neal entered the ward for the purpose of
administering the last sacrament to the
wounded man and amounting him.
More than 80 arrests have been made IF
parties believed to be implicated in the
assassination of Hennessey, and to-day an
other italian, Pedro Natal, was identified
by Officer Lannagan as one of the men be
saw running away from the scene of the
murder.
The body of the late Chief of Police David
G. Hennessey lay in state at the City Hall
from 10 A. M. to 8 P. NJ. to-day, and was
viewed by thousands of people, The funeral
was largely attended, and Canal street was
lined BY an immense crowd for a mile. In
the procession there were United States,
State and city officials, citizens, policemen
and 6remen. The floral offerings were
numerous and elaborate.