Warren sheaf., 1891-03-19

was dead, Q score of men took ain, and
fred vol1ey of shot into his body, atid
for several hours his body was left
dangling il the air. y,
Bagietto WIS caught in the first irish
upstairs and the first volley,I of bullets
pierced his brain. He was pulled out
by number Of stalwart men through
the main entrance to the prison and
from the limb of a tres his body was
suspended, although life was already
gone.
just as soon as the bloody work was
done Mr. Parkerson addressed the
crowed, and asked them to disperse.
This they consented to do with a
ringing shout, but first they made
b rush for Parkerson, and, lift
ing him bodily, supported him on
their shoulders while they marched
up the street. The avengers came
back in body to the Clay statue, and
then departed. Immense crowds
rushed from all directions to the neigh
borhood of the tragedy, while the
streets in front of the newspaper offices
were blocked with people anxious to
see the latest bulletin.
There was intense but suppressed ex-
citement, and from one end of the city
to the other the action of the citizens
was applauded.
Coroner Lemoniere reached the pris-
on at 1890 o'clock and viewed tehs
bodies of the ten men. They were
stretched out in the prison. The ver-
dict was that the men had come to their
death at the hands of unknown
parties. Sheriff Villere was not
at the prison when the mob reached
there. He was hunting the mayor in
order to have the police ordered out.
Attorney General Rogers also hunted
up the mayor as did the Italian consul
but they were una BILE to find him, and
the work was done before the mayor or
the governor could interfere
The leaders in the movement repre-
senting the best citizens held secret
meeting Saturday night and discussed
the occurrence of the day and the ac-
ton to be taken in the future 1t was
decided that there should be no more
bloodshed, but that the men who have
not yet been tried for the murder as
well as those who suborned the wit
nesses and the jury shall be vigorously
prosecuted before the courts of the city
The jurors III the Hennessy case are
also reaping a, bitter harvest. Walter
Livandais, clerk in the Southern Pa
cifc railway, was discharged, as his
fellow clerks refused to work with him.
j. M. Seligman, the foreman, was part
ner with his brother in the jewelry
business. The brother has dissolved
the partnership. The clubs and ex-
changes of which lie was a member ex-
PEELED him and he sought to leave
town Saturday afternoon. A mob cap
tured him on the road to the depot, but
he was rescued by the police and has
been concealed by his friends.
Governor Nichols said that the Ital-
ian consul had called on him at his
Office Saturday morning, and that he
had asked interference and protection
for Italian subjects in the parish prison
who were threatened with mob vio-
lence. The matter had not been called
officially to the governors atten-
ton, and the call for the military
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of the city. No such demand had been
made. When the consul called on the
governor the crowd had already started
toward the prison. Mayor Shakespeare
says that his aid had not been invoked,
and when it reached the office it was all
over. He had not asked any aid of the
governor.
The prison officials are somewhat in
censed over the censure at their failure
to make more formidable defense
They say that they did not give up the
keys, and that when the crowd broke
in all the officers were found at
their posts. Had they fired at
the crowd it would have caused the
storming and perhaps destruction OF
the prison and the sacrifice of
many innocent lives within and out
side the Jail. At all times they refused
to give up the keys until driven into a
corner when they were compelled to.
Even then they did not designate the
location of any of the prisoners. The
prisoners in the yard gave this informa-
ton
[The story OF the murder is one OF the most
sensational chapters OF crime ever recorded in
this country. Chief Of Police David C. Hen
messy had long believed that conspiracy ex
listed among q band Of Italian or Sicilian Grim
inals to take his life He had run down
several crimes perpetrated by the
Malta and he believed that organization
which usually confines Its acts OF sanguinary
vengeance to its own countrymen, had re
solved on his death. He went about armed
and was ever on the alert. Yet death came
to him unprepared. Near midnight on October
Is he was returning to his home on Giro6
street on foot. He had got near his own house
and was walking on Girod street, hetweer
Rampant; and Basin streets, when q votey was
suddenly poured OH him from the other side o
tie street. Looking quickly over, he saw
by the smoke that the assassins were
under the shelter OF an old frame build
ing, and he commenced to blaze away
at them with his revolver. He could no
take aim and his fire was naturally ineffective
although there is reason to believe that he hit
| at least one OF the murderOus gang. He was
| SIMPLY ridded with bullets. slugs and buck
shot, He sought refuge in q neighboring house
from which he was later taken away in an am
bulance. He had six wounds, many OF then
big Jagged runctures OF the abdomen, and ht
died next morning.
New Orleans was In wild ferment mex,
| morning, and fierce threats Of violence were
uttered against all Italians. Lynching wa
| openly advocated and arrests we're indiscrimi
! nateIy made. Nearly fifty Italians wer,
! placed behind the bars, OF whom nineteel
| were indicted. Owing to tile presence OF {
stenographer in tho grand Jury room
motion by defendants counsel to quasb the in
dictment was granted but later the same
men were indicted again. The city contrib
| uted 25,0OO for tle prosecution ant
public feeling continued to be excited
| Mayor Shakespeare was accused of losinl
| his head and acting from panic and thu
Italian consul did his best to show that the
| whole prosecution was the result OF unjusti
| fable race prejudice. The indictments wer
i as follows: One for murder and two 70
i shooting with intent to kill while lying il
wait, against Peter Natali, Antonio Scafndi
i Antonio Bagnetto, Manuel Politz, Antoni
i Marches1, Pietro Monastero, Bastlano Incol