The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-10-29
SHOT IN A CELL.
ONE OF CHIEF HENNESSY'S.MURDER.
ERS MORTALITY WOUNDED.

/ ERS MORTALITY WOUNDED.
Y The yendetta in New Orleans-Over Fifty
g Italians Arrested on the Charge of Be-
: ing Implicated,in the Midnight Assas-
sination.
: New ORLEANS, Oct. 17.-While the
e body of the late Chief of Police, David
) c. Hennessy, lay in state at the City
Hall to-day Antonio Scafida, identified
: as one of the assassins, was shot and
f mortaily wounded in the Parish Prison
by Thomas C. Duffy, brother of the
ex-prize fighter of that name.
Duffy informed Deputy Sheriff 0. s..
.Andry that he called for the purpose Of
seeing one of the "Dagos" arrested for
the assassination of Chief Hennessy, as
he believed that he was able to identify
him. Scafida came down accompanied
by Deputy Sheriff Tim Dwyer and put
his face within few inches of the gate
to recognize who it was that wanted to
see him. Duffy, who was standing
about foot from the gate, with alight-
n1ng like motion drew revolver from
his hip pocket, and, putting it within
few inches of Scafida's face, pulled the
trigger, and the Italian with a groan fell
back in the corridor, the blood squirting
from wound in the left side Of the
(neck.
| Duffy was disarmed. While in the
station Duffy said that if the Italian
died he was willing to hang. He said:
II only wish there were about seventy
five more men like me-" Duffy was
jlockedup.
| When the wounded man reached the
Charity Hospital Judge NJ. c. Bringier
was sent for, and with his assistant,
Judge Hollander, arrived in a few min
! utes. Scaffida was asked if he had any
thing to say before he died and replied
! in the affirmative. He began his state
ment by saying:
"We knew that Chief Hennessay and
the provenzanos were good people. We
| were good friends Of the Matrangas. I
| am going to die and I die innocent. My
idea is the Matrangas did that to keep
| the provenzanos in jail. Oh, my God,
I am going to die" and Scafida closed
his eyes and remained silent.
More than fifty arrests have been
made of parties believed to be impG-
Gated in the assassination and to-day
another Italian, Pedro Natal, was iden-
titled by Officer flanagan as one Of the
men he saw running away from the
scene of the murder.
There is 40 longer room for doubt
that the murder of Chief HennesSy was
the deliberately planned work of an
organized band of Italians. The crime
is the latest in series of crimes which
have caused many deaths. In June a
gang Of Italian braves lay in wait at
midnight for another party of Italians,
Matrangas, who had offended them in
some way or other, and riddled the en-
tire party with bullets. The authori-
ties determined to put an end to this
vendetta business, which has resulted N
forty or more murders and aSSaSsina-
tions, and vigorous efforts were made
to track and capture the criminals
Six men were arrested for the crime and
tried. During the trial one Of the prin-
cipal witnesses AN Italian, was assassina-
ted The trial resulted in a conviction,
but there was SO much perjury that the
Judge granted new trial, which is yet
to come off
Chief of Police Hennessy, who was a
witness in the first case, set 10 work to
collect all the evidence about the Maha,
the Stopaliagieri and other Italian assas-
sination societies, and about the numer-
Gus vendettas and murders committed
by them. AS there is a feud between
the Italians growing out of the Natl
anaga affair, be found it possible to
secure ample evidence of the most SEN
sational character, and he promised
such Developments as would break up ,
the vendetta in New Orleans forever.
Hennessy well understood the risk he
was running. He was man Of cour-
age and fearlessness, but he deemed 1t
prudent, from the many threats he
received, to guard himself, and never
went without one or more officers as
escort. Unfortunately, he dismissed his
body guard few days ago, either be-
lieving that he could protect himself or
that the threats amounted to nothing.
The assassins evidently knew this, and
made their preparations for revenge. !,
There was a meeting of the Italian
Stiletto Society on Wednesday, and it
was then decided that Hennessy must
be got rid of for the safety of the mem
bers. The crime was carefully planned.
Two gangs of men were detailed for it.
They were armed with reyolvers and
blunderbusses, and concealed them
selves in alleyWays at each corner Of the
block on which Hennessy lived, so that
he could not escape This was in one Of
the most popular portions OF the city,
bu. IL was rainy night, and few per-
sons were abroad. 1t was near mid
night when Hennessy started home.
| He turned the corner and as he came
under the glare Of the electric light the
assassins opened on him with volley
from the alleyway in which they had
hidden. Hennessy was taken by sur,
prise, and must have been wounded at
the first fire, but he stood his ground,
drew his revolver and fired at his asSal-,
ants. They replied and twenty or more
shots were fired. a police officer heard
them and ran to Hennessy's aid, to be
himself shot in the ear.
When HenneSSy tell the men VINO
were concealed in the alleyway ran out
and down the street, one Of them
throwing away his gun. Four other
men, armed with blunderbusses-the
party waiting at the corner for Hen
nessy-joined the fugitiyes, and: the
entire gang ran up the street and dis.
appeared in the darkness. When relief
reached Hennessy he was found lying
on the doorsteps His body was riddled
with bullets. Both his lungs were pen
etrateG. There was another wound
very near his heart, one in his stomach,
one in his side and still another in his
leg. Besides, his coat was cut by no
less than nine other bullets which had
not penetrated the flesh.
Iennessy was only 81 years old, but
had won a high reputation as perhaps
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