Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-06

I Tic ~ cuCy SHOULD De lQ1Ofmeu OF the Work
ings Of the city special officers, and O'Maliey
managed to have friend appointed. He wal
| assigned to the police and not the detectivt
force. when he resigned rather than wear q
| uniform.
| 1--WE have il most directly and confirmed by
other evidence that person holding position
OF inspector Of weights and measures was often
| at the agency and stood sentinel at the door
| several times. This same person was seen com.
| ing to the court house with talesman the day
| he was accepted as Juror. There is confirmed
evidence that the influence of d. G. OMalley
with the night Waterman and inspector at the
electric light plant was 30 great that he could
cause them to manipulate the hgh,
streets the evening the jury was taken
| to the scene of assassination. We quote the
| words Of Officer Collins, showing the direc-
tons given by O'Malley at the detective agency,
pm, March 10: Go to Mike Fanning's, and,
If he is not at home, to the electric light COM
pany and see Jim Waldron and tell him sent
you. Tell Waldron in a manner no one but he
will be able to understand to make that light
corner Of Girod and Basin burn weak as it was
ON the night of October l5-to have it done by
1880 o'clock
The message was delivered to Waldron and
on the messengers return OMalley remarked:
That fellow will break that wheel down if
necessary. No wonder. then, O'Malley had ac-
cess to the electric light works after nightfall
and it doubtless accounts for the alteration
found in one of the record books az to the con-
dltion OF the light at the corner Of Basin and
Glrod streets on the night Hennessey was shot,
1t being changed to read forty minutes addi-
tlonal OF dim light to the time originally re-
corded for the fatal night of October Is, 1890.
1t is but justice to state that the president and
superintendent of the electric light company,
as also the general manager, who was In New
YORK, SO soon as they were informed that their
men were being tempered with did all and
everything In their power to Illustrate their
plans and DreSerye the actual record
From the beginning of our investigation
there Is continuous evidence brought to our at
tention OF the pernicious combinations of what
Is known as the ID. c. O'Malley Detective
Agency. One OF the ablest criminal lawyers at
the bar is the attorney for the agency. We
know for an absolute fact that checks we're
drawn in the name Of O'Malley h Adams the
interested parties being ID. G. Malley and
Lionel Adams Such combination between a
detective and prominent criminal lawyer is
unheard of before in the civilized world, and
when we contemplate its possibilities for evil
We stand aghast.
BAND OF PERJURERs FOUND.
The inside view which we are enabled to get
OF the workings OF this agency through City
Detective Collins, abundantly corroborated
from many sources, convinces Ms that it had at
IT'S command band Of perjurers, blackmailers,
suborners and jury tamperers. and that has for
some time been an element Of discord in this
SommuHity. Inc evidence Is Dey0n0 question
that o Malley went up town in the Carondeet
street car on Saturday, March IA last, in COM
pany with a party, reaching 4th street shortly
before am. The party was sent twice to
Sellgmans house, after which OMalley in per-
son went to the house, and within few minutes
Seilgman was running up Carondelet street
and entered a carriage in waiting near the
corner of st. Charles and Washington avenue
U Malley was next seen walking rapidly up st.
Charles avenue.
THE MALTA.
"Ihe extended range of our researches has
developed the existence Of a secret organization
styled Malta The evidence comes from sew
eral sources fully competent in themselves to
attest its truth, while the fact is supported by
the long record of blood-curdling crimes, it be-
ing almost impossible to discover the perpe-
traitors or secure witnesses
AS If to guard against exposure, the dagger
or stiletto is selected the deadly weapon to
plunge into the breast or back Of the victim
and silently do its fearful work. Revenge was
their motto. Jealousy and malice speedily
found solace in these methods. while the burn
ing vengeance Of the vendetta sought satisfac
ton in the life-blood of an enemy.
Officers Of the Malta and many of it's MEM
bers are now known. Among them are men
born in this city of italian origin using their
power for the basest purposes, be it said to
their eternal disgrace. The larger number Of
the society is composed Of Italians and Sicil-
ians. who left their native land. in most in
stances, under assumed names to avoid conyic-
ton and punishment for crimes there COM
United, and others were escaped cOnvicts and
bandits, Outlawed in their own land, seeking
the city of New Orleans for the congenial COM
partnership of their own class. These men
knew the swift retrlbutiOn OF the law in Italy,
for hundreds have been shot down at sight by
the military in the mountains Of Sicily without
a second thought.
IMMIGRATION.
mo question is more intimately connected
with the subject matter of this report than that
of immigration. 1t deeply interests the peo-
pie of the whole country by reason of the good
results following the landing on our shores of
large numbers of meritorious and law-abiding
foreigners, or the damage attendant upon the
introduction of vicious or indolent class who
leave their native country for that country's
good, seeking an asylum here, soon again to
follow In their footsteps Of the past. We know
that this question more deeply concerns the
city of New Orleans than it does any city on
the Atlantic seaboard. The great importance
is forcibly expressed in the columns OF the pub
lie press till there seems to be an awakening to
the danger that threatens the situation and the
necessity for radical reformation.
THAT past immigration laws were sadly def
Gent or badly administered Is indicated by
recent legislation Of the national Congress-,
and even these new regulations will not be
effective unless strictly enforced by the
proper officials charged with such duties.
That Is the intention at present and for the
future, yet, by some design or other, the de-
tails of the law may be evaded. For instance,
so high an authority as the Italian consul
in this city, in his sworn statement before
the grand jury, charged that nine Italians
were recently landed from the steamship
Entella whose names were not on the pas
senger list. This point has been referred by
him to the italian government and is being
investigated, the steamer being due at Palermo
about this time. The consul claims that Y4I
persons were landed, while the passenger reg
lister showed 1872 names. Ii it is finally shown
that these nine Italians were landed, in vio-
iation of the laws of both nations, they should
be returned whence they came and the steam
ship Enteiia heavily fined.
I'VE have stated in our remarks about the
Malta that several hundred Italian criminals
in this city today who should not have left
their native land without the Endorsement Of
the American consul as to character, and should
not have been permitted to land here. The
time has passed when this country can be made
the dumping ground for the worthless and de-
PRAYED of every nation. The crisis is reached.
and on the magnitude of the issue it becomes
the duty of the next Congress to quickly enact
such vigorous laws that complete protection
be afforded henceforth against these evils"
JURORS WERE BRIBED.
1--WE are SO deeply impressed with the facts
of the case, as partially summarized in the
foregoing, that the moral conviction is forced
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