Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-21
TOUGH ITALIANS.
A Gang of Forty suspicious Charact-
ers" at One Haul at New Orleans.
No Doubt the Chief Of Police was Murdered,
Because He was Gathering Evidence IN
the Vendetta Matter.
pISXERroNs CALLED IN.

Special 10 the Gazette-
NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. 2o.-ins
Pinkertous are to manage the HennesseJ
assassination investigation. The request
was made yesterday and W. A. PlnSer-
ton telecraphed that he would come
down here at once and take personaA
charge OF the case and try TO oring tne
murderers of his old friend Hennessey 10
Justice. Mr.. Hennessey's partner to-oay
opened his private drawers. This is done
to get at the papers which he had IN the
vendetta matter and which are thought
TO have been largely the cause of his
death. For the past four months he had
been making inquiries in Italy from the
Italian police and the United states cou-
sul there concerning some of the danger
GUS Italians now living in New orleans
and supposed to have left their homes
FROM FEAR OF PUNISHMENT.
Nobody has read these papers put
Heuuessey, but they are believed TO pe
important as the murderers killed MIN TO
prevent him giving testimony. 1ns
nolIce continue their Investigations
They believe that they have captured III
Carlo Trabena one of the murderers. he
resided on the Dorsey plantation sohe
thirty miles from New Orleans, came 10
the CITY Oh the night of the murder anu
1T near morning. He was very exolteo
and was found to have wound on us
hand. He has been identified py negro
woman as having osen seen III tue itnme-
date neighborhood OF the Klhius-
Matranga and Carusa were rearres.eo
to-day. They ara both oripples, having
lost their legs in the Proenzano- Matraga
vendetta. They were arrested TWO uays
ago but released after long talk win
the MAYOR. 1t is not known what ne"
evidence has been found against tnem'
but they are charged with being
ACCEssARY TO THE MURDER.
I'm the other hand the Italians who
we're arrested yesterday were released,
| II being shown that they were brought
down here to work on q sugar planta-
ton. o.s
An investigation of the police record
| elbows that in the last sixteen years
| tweuty-nine murders or assasslnetiouS
have occurred here, attributed by tne
| police to the vendetta or the mana. III
| onlv one case was the murderer sem
| fenced. and in that one 1t was very
| doubtful whether it was more IMAM III
| ordinary killing. III nine other eases
| the notice had some evidence Oh WHO uiu
the killing, but could convict none OF
the criminals. In the other cases, nine-
| teen in all. there was no evidence "nat-
ever of who the assassins were. The deao
bodies having been found In the stree
or dwellings without the slightest Gle" u
the murder. In three cases there "al
mo evidence even of who the murdered
man was, except that he was dago.
sICILIAN IMMIGRANTS.
The steamship Eiysia, about wnlc'
| there has been SO much excitement, ua'
1888 Siciliau immigrants on Doarns' III
stead of 500. She has not been heart
rom vet and cannot arrive before
Wednesday. An effort Will De maue .
send all or part of these Immigrant
hook 70 Sicily under the immigration
laws.
THE POLICE CONFIDENT
Nrw ORLEANS, La, Oct. 20.-Th
nol,ce last night arrested forty odd Itai
iaus at the grocery of Carlos Grafhos
corner Burgundy and Coute street
!. The officers noticed q large number G
! Italians dropping into the place In two
J and threes, and believing something wa
; wrong forced their way in and founo
man addressing the crowd present
italian. Charging that it was an III
lawful assembly, oil persons preset
were arrested and carried to JAIL Mean
while rumors that q number OF straus
: Italians were holding an indiguatio
meeting In the house attracted iart
d crowd around the place, who man
e tested their hostility to the foreigner
!. When the latter were brought 10 u
statiou il was discovered not one OF tue
s had a cent or a home of any kind, al
!. that the entire party had arrive
n here Saturday from Chicago, al
. had been told TO me
& at Graffios' place. AS the men oou
l. give no explanation of themselves
~ why they came to New Orleans or !"
te at Grafiios house, they were iockeo
g at the police station charged with pen
?. dangerous and suspicious characters.
The police also arrested Manner fietr
whom they charge with not only pei
one of the men engaged IN the assassin
ton of Hennessey, but virtually tne a
lie who fired the fatal shot. They claim
a have the case in excellent condition; tn
? the murderers have been arrested
theirs il sufficient evidence TO cow
% them. According to their view OF I
y. matter. the murder was ordered by
Matrangas. who are heads of the Sioili
no gang.
ne Joe Macheca, under the name
Ut John Peterson, leased the Mas
house. from which the asst
SINS watched Hennessy, aud ma
fired on him. The murder itself
committed by six or seven men, OF wn'
ty scafadi, MAESTRO, Bagnetto. Incaro'
in and pietro are five. The other man
:, men have not yet been discovered.
W. other Italian prisoners except some
d. who are regarded as important witnes
IT. or accessories to the crime, have os
en- released. More evidence was lou
lin against Machsco, he being identified
nd the two negro women who lived next
Mastro as having been seen by them
the house several times just before
murder. In his statement he declal
he was never in that portion of the CT
lay He is now identified by two white
raj two colored women as having leased
g house under another name and OF nav