The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-10-23
A MURDER LEAGUE.

A MURDER LEAGUE.
An Italian High Binder Society in Now
Orieans-It Orders the Killing ef Chief
OF Police Bennessy Because He knew
Too Muci, of Its Affairs.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 1s-"Down with
the Dagos! Down with the assassins"
is the cry of thousands of angry men,
and it seems certain that the city is on
the eve of the bloodiest race riot ever
known in America Not only
has it been learned that Chief OF
Police Hennessy was murdered by the
Malta, an association Of italian assas-
sins, but the astounding revelation has
been made that the murderers had
planned to kill number of other 1fi.
cials. Public feeling is strongly aroused
against the whole Italian colony at this
place, and the least thing would precip'
itate riot, having for its object the tx.
termination OF the Italians of this city.
A steamship is now on her way up the
river from Italy with over 800 emigrants
on board, and a determination is ex.
pressed to prevent their landing.
The police searched the residence oi
one of the men arrested for the murder
of Chief of Police Hennessy and found
detailed plan to assassinate all city OF
State officers who acted counter to the
wishes Of the Malta, an Italian secret
society formed for the purpose of as
sassination. This society includes a
large portion of the lower class of 1tal-
ians. Heretofore they have generally
confined their assassinations to their
own nationality, and this is one Of the
few instances OF their applying their
methods to one not of their own people.
There is no doubt that Chief Hen
messy was the victim of the vendetta
that has been carried on by the Italian
colony in this city for many years,
and met his death at the hands
of the Malta. The cause Of the
killing dates back to last spring,
when certain members of this so
ciety, known as the Provinzanas gang,
waylaid and shot into a wagon-load of.
rival Italians one night as thoy were
returning from unloading fruit vessel,
The police of the city, directed by the
murdered chief, after laborious ef-
forts finally unearthed the plot and
the workings of the society and Sc.
cured enough evidence to convict the
perpetrators of the attempted as.
sassination, who were sentenced to
life Imprisonment. A new trial
was granted, and it was set for
;1f hoI
possessed himself of important infor.
nation in regard to the workings of the
Malta in his efforts to probe to the bot
tom, and it was believed that on the trial
of the case he would expose the inside
workings of this band of assassins.
The possession of this knowledge, with
their record from Italy and his avowed
determination to break up the Mafla
and put stop to these assassination
were, without doubt, the causes that
led to his murder.
On Wednesday night shortly after II
o'clock Chief Hennessy left the Central
Police station in company with Captain
Connors, y member of Boyland's De-
tective Agency, for his home. Con-
nors went with him to within a
block of his house where he left
him, Connors going downtown and
Hennessy toward home. Connors
had walked about block when three
loud reports in rapid succession startled
him, sounding like shotguns, in the
direction in which Chief Hennessy
had taken. In an instant these
were followed by several pistol
shots, as if from return fire.
Connors turned and ran in the direction
of the firing. He found Hennessy sit
ting on a step badly wounded and asked
him who had done it. Hen
messy replied, ''Dagos." Examina
ton showed that Hennessy's body
was fairly riddled with slugs
and bullets. He was removed te
the hospital, where he died the next
morning at 0 o'clock. The postrmorten
developed four wounds, either of which
would have proved fatal, one perforat
ing the stomach.
The block where the shooting took
place was Immediately surrounded by
police and the cutters searched. One
shotgun was found in the gutter with
one BARREL loaded and one empty. Fresh
tracks in the mud were also discovered
Three more guns were found in
the gutter on the next block loaded
with buckshot, the barrel Of one having
ocen recently discharged. Two more
were found in gutter short distance
away, loaded like the others, barrel Of
one having been fired. All of them were
of a folding pattern and sawed off 50 as
to be carried under the coat
Wholesale arrests of Italians fol.
lowed, until seventy-one were arrested
and six held. Three of them were posi-
lively identified by parties who we're
living near by the scene of the crime
One of the men had scalp wound. pre-
sumed to have been inflicted by Hen
messy, who. emptied his pistols at his
assassins after he was shot down.
Anto<io Scaftide, identified as one oi
the .assassins of Chief Hennessy, was
shot and mortally wounded at 11:4s
o'clock Friday in the parish prison by
Joseph Duffy, young man II
years of age. The shooting
was done in the corridor or bull
ring OF the prison, and
Duffy's actions were so quick that sew
eral deputies who were present knew
nothing of what was going on until the
shot was fred.
Mayor Shakespeare has appointed a
committee composed OF fifty prominen,
citizens who: are deputized to thor.
oughly investigate the case. They will
bring before them former victims Of the
vendetta who have escaped death, an6
will endeavor- to compel them to name
their assailants with view to reaching
the bottom facts.
The Pullman Annual Statement.
CHICAGO Oct. 1a-The annual meet
ing of the Pullman Palace Car Company
was held Thursday. The fnancia:
statement showed that the total revenue
o. the company for the twelve month";
was $S, $50, ,961.36, of which 81, 473, 1885, g.
waS from carnipps of cars The Opprak