The record-union., 1891-03-20
NEW ORLEANS TRAGEDY.
FOREMAN SELIGMAN APPEARS ON
THE STREETS.
He Declares That He Was Not Bribed
"A Prominent Italian Believes
the Killing JustifiabIe.
Special to the REcoRp-UN1oy.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
New YORK, March ia Tribune
New Orleans special says: The two sensa-
tions of the day here have been the ap-
pearance in public of ]. NJ. Silignan,
! foreman of the Hennessy Jury. and the
alleged declaration of John Roephi, a
much respected Italian, who had lived
in New Orleans for over forty years, that
he considered the lynching entirely justi-
fable
Seligman has never left the city, al
though at first pressed to do so. He says
that he was never bribed, and that in
spite of all the vituperation heaped upon
him, he would render the same verdict
again on the same evidence.
The New Orleans ItaEo-4 4mericd3,o will
on Saturday publish Roehhi's written
statement that he merely said he was
glad the affair was not one of race. He
was panied to think the innocent had suf-
fered with the guilty, and that as much as
he deplored the sad deed, it would teach
the Mania a severe lesson to the adyan-
tage OF the hard-working and peaceful
members of the Italian colony.
John Succi, editor of the Halo- inner
lc0no, uttered these prophetic words:
The trial will proceed. The culprit is
sought and must be found. Conscientious
scruples will be silenced. What is i'm
perative is TO satisfy public opinion. This
accomplished, it matters little that the
prlee may even be the lives of half
a dozen of our countrymen. If
the Italian colony has not stamped
out the Malta. it is because no
Italian and no American has ever
proved it.. What have existed are local
feuds and bandit league established
in 1881, by that accomplished ruffiian,
Esposito, on Sicilian lives.''
Everybody in New Orleans knows
yucca and speak well of him. Even at
TINS late day there is much idle vaporing
and fuming. Blaine is roundIy abused
Tor not contining his letter to Governor
Nlcholls to a simple request for the facts,
although the letters to Parkerson are
printed without condemnation that call
for the blood of the Jurors.
An evening sheet also charitably hints
at suspicion that the protesting Jurors
are being drilled in pretty much the
same fashion as the witnesses for the de-
tense were drilled for the trial.
Ihe Ptrdyatne and other serious Jour-
nails print strong editorials calling for a
revision OF the State jury system that
shall provide for the payment of Jurors in
| criminal cases, the admission of a verdict
by nine of the twelve, and the selection
of men of high character as court officers.
Sheriffs and Jury Commissioners.
The New Delta, referring to the recent
lottery legislation, asks pertinently: ..Is
II worse to br1be jury than to bribe the
Legislature?u
ALARM IN VIRGINIA..
PITTsBURa (Pa.), March ia special
to the Times from Wheeling, w. Va,
says news has reached here that about
700 Italians working on the Pittsburg,
ohio Valley and Cincinnati Railroad and
the Apipe line, about eighteen miles be-
low Bellaire, are organized and drilling
III companies. They are also receiving
guns. 1t is said they have organized on
account of orders received from Chicago.
People in the vicinity are considerably
alarmed.