The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-03-17
THE NEW ORLEANS TR iGEDY
GREAT INDiGNATION BECAUSE
PRESIDENT HARRISON WISH
IS THE LyNCiIEGS
PUNISUFD.
iT WAS THE OLD DETECTIVE FEUO.


Icnuc.sy. me Origin and History
OF il all.
NEg ORLEANS, March 1G The tele-
gram from Secretary OF State Blaine to
Gov. Nichols in which he said that the
President deeply deplored the massacre
of the Italians and demands that Gov.
Nichols take steps to stop further blood
shed and to have the instigators of Sat
urday's affair promptly and severely
punished has created much indignation. |
Gov Nichols said that th Italian Con
sul had called at his office yesterday
morning and that he had asked inter
ferance and protection for Italian prs-
oner5 in the Parish prison vino were
threatened with mao violence. Toe mat
tor had hot uygp eadad officially ilr
Governors ut;ertlon, aud lbe cali Cor
tle military would have TO come through
ne mgyor Of the city. No such demand
had been made wheu the Consul called
ou the Goyeraor Tue crowd had already
started tlward the PRISON. Mayor Shak-
5peare 5 Us that bis aid had not been in
yoksd, a1d when he reached his Office it
was altoyyr He had not asked any aid
of tie governor
Au EN-roiiceman's Theory.
DENVER Colo March Is }. 81.
No5It,e Lieutenant of the New Orleans
police, Was sesa hare last night and gave
sta. u"at ri the causes leading TO the
KILN. ui the Chief Of Police Hennessy
which throw entirely new light on the
matter Gle says that while the Malta
mIy 0Sa had something to do with the
murder he has strOug reason to believe
that they We're nothing more than hired
ass ssluo He aScrlbco the trouble to an
old feui betw en- the detectives of the
city, which had It's foundation in the
time &C tea famous whiSkey ring and
SUGAR glug excitement twenty years ago,
When several men lost their lives. Tue
same bitter fight, he says. was the cause
of tne Killing of the elder Hannessey by
Guarfiu in 1872 Guerrlu, according to
Moore. was not supposed 10 be mem
Der Of The Malta and such action was not
mIle 7gai9st 5jm until recently.
The famous shooting of Guerrin by
Houston does not appear so manly to
Moore as Gueriin was merely showing
Garecssiy, aud was not trying to DO euy-
thing Ac pera,e. He aoss not believe
that Maeae-i had anything to do with
she killing OF Honnessy, 80 be was a
ulan OF too great wealth 10 risk lnterfer-
enco with such affairs, although he was
sDuethiug of a politician At the same
time he knocks out the reported noble
action OF Machecl in saving Badges, by
declaring that il was really 4 band of
Masonic brethren who rallied around the
faIleu men, Houston proved to be back
i'm New Orleans and TO have taken an &C.
tive part ia the late affair though his
name does rot appear. The murder oi
Caief Heunessy, ne has no doubt, was
due TO the old detective feud which fol
years was main issue In local politics
1t was simply quarrel over the spoilg
which were richer, perhaps, than eveI
before.
The Origin and History OF il All.
New ORLEANS La, March Is 91 =
The origin of the whole tragedy wa
tae action Of members of the Malta.
On October 35th, 1890, about / o'clocl
at night d. G.. Hennessy, chief of polict
of the city of New Orleans, going from
his office TO his home, was waylaid anC
shot to pieces by band of Italian as
sassins. Indignation and eXcitemen
were such that mob law and lynchin!
were about TO be resorted to. The entir
community felt that, in the endeayor I
reach the guilty parties, innocent 1t
aliaus might be sacrificed To alay eY
element and To assist the constitute
authorities, the mayor of the city (
,tninta1 "A pbvD oittaa NJ fftv roprpSan 9
tive citizens to take charge Of the inveS
tigatiOn and aid in the trial and conyiC
tlon OF the assassins.
After months of preparation the tria
which continued three weeks, and
whic distinguished counsel sisted tt
able district attorney, the Jury, charge
to have been bribed and currupted,
the face of the testimony establishin
their guilt, rendered verdict of mistri
as TO three of the assassins Seated
Monastero and Pollitz and acquitte
three as5assiuS -Macheca, Marchesi ar
Bagnetto. Three more were on trial an
were quilted because of INSULT eiet
videuce, these being Matranga, Inca
roma and the boy Marchesi. The acqui
tai of Macheca, the chief conspirato
ard of Marchesi and Bagnetto and Il
alstrial as to Politz, Scaffedi and Mona
tero, fell like a thunderbolt upon {
community and impressed law-abidil
citizens with the coaviction that the Ia
had been violated; that the verdi
invited assassination and the engraftil
OF the Italian Malta upon Americ;
institutions.
Hoisting the Italian Flag.
At the lugger landing the Italian fl
= was hoisted AZ the mast theadS OF al [
= oyster AZ -SsbiBg boats in port VIII
- = T6e French market all tho san
- It'd 10" nv the Siciians were decorat
Te4teh rent "a ,Gners ny aud bunting. The Ame
can cam 4 ,as owned by 'ne oysIermGeu yrrG reit Gs
eau ,9laa Il 80 - half-m asst and a general reJo
paceu a,. Gu - had ia the 6icilian quarter
I~s vas the,r he hour for rejoicing ,roons a
nr;vate offices many promiinenS pip.n of tax,
we're P,rS discussing the pToPrd5e's pPde ssnd d at tn u
a. tho law in their own hanu9 5alinerati,
night e the result Of their ,oiIering Hel,io ca ca
was made manifest in TIE io.ap Ions me
which was handed to the v"fi0'
ing papers for publication; citizens
o. MerTINc. All good ctIA0u' {