Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-03-17
The Assassins of Chief cf Police
Hennessy, of New Orleans,
Havs a Dose Measured
Out to Them.
A Failure to Convict Them Re.
suits in an Uprising of the
Best Citizens and Eleven
ofthe Malta are Killed.

NEW ORLEANS. March 14.-Nev
Orleans struck the Mafia a desth bow
today. II rose In its might almost a
midday and wreaked a horrible ven.
geance upon the SicIlian fsssssins
who relentlessly slew David c. Hen
messy, and although there are eleven
men dead tonight who were happy
yesterday over their victory in the
greatest criminal trial the city has
ever witnessed, the work of blood was
accomplished without unnecessary
disorder, without rioting, withou,
/ pillsging and without inf 'ciiop of
suffering upon any innocent man save
one and be was My slightly hurt. II
was not an unruly, midnight mob. It
was simply a sulleD. determined body
Of citizens, who took into their own
hands what justice had ignominlous-
ly failed to do. A body Of cool head
ed, men, lawyers, doctors, merchants,
political leaders-all persons Of infiu-
ence and social staDding-quietly met
and decided that the p eople's Justice,
swift and sure, VISITED upon those
whom the jury had neglected TO pup-
ish. This morning a call for a mass
meeting at Clay square on Canal st.
appeared in the papers, to which a
crowd Of several thousand responded
and proceeded TO the jail and battered
down the door, when q party Of seven
or eight entered. The gallery was de
serted; but an old woman said the
men were up stairs. The party de-
sceDded the stair case, and as they
reached the landing the asss Gins fed
down the other end. Scarcely q word
was spoken. IL was time for action.
Bang, bar g, bang. rang out the re-
ports Of the murdeIous weapons. Ger
aehi, the oldest man, was struck in
the back Of the cad aud his body
pitched forward. Romero III to his
knees with his face In his bands. and
In that position was shot TO death.
Monastero and James Caruso fell to-
gether under the fire of half a dozen
guns, the leacen pellets entering their
bodies and heads. The bloody execu-
tlOners did their work well, snd be-
meath their fire Ccmitez and Frahipia
two Of the men who had not been
tried, but who were charged Jointly
with the other accused. fell together.
Their bodies were literally riddIed
and they were stone dead almost be-
fore the fusilade was over, When the
group Of assassins was discovered on
the gallery Maeheca. Scaffedi and Id
man Marchesi separated from the
other and six and ran up the stairs.
Thither half a Dc zen men followed
them, and, as the terror stricken as
sassins ran into the cells, they were
slain. ice Meeheos 2, who was charged
with being the arch-conspirator, had
his back tur ed when the shot struck
him Immediately behind the ear. and
his death was instan taneous. Scat
fedi, one Of the most villainous Of the
assassins, dropped like dog when
bullet struck him ia the eye. Old
man MaTchesi was the only man who
was not killed outright. He was
struck on the top Of the head while he
stood beside Macheca, and though
DloItally wounded, fingered all the
evening.
PolliEe, the crszy man, was locked
up in cell up stairs. The doors were
flung open and one Of the avengers
taking aim, thot him through the
body, He was not killed outright,
and in order TO satisfy the people
the outside. who were crazy to know
what was going oa within he was
dragged outside. Half carried, half
dragged, be was taken to the corner.
A rope was provided and tied around
his neck, and the people dragged him
up In the cross bars. Not satisfied
that he wts dead, a score Of men took
aim and poured . volley Of shot into
his body. and fer several hours the
BODY was left dangling In the air.
BagnettO was caught Ia the a ct rush
up stairs and the first volley Of bullets
pierced bis brain. He was pulled out
By number Of stalwart men through
the main entrance 10 the prison, and
from the l'n b Of a tree his body was
suspended, although life was already
gone. The eOrODer's jury presented a
simple finding. They did not say
who shot the m n. Matranga, SUM-