Arizona republican., 1891-03-15

NEW ORLEANS, March 14.-New Or leans struck the Mafa a death blow today.
 It rose In its might, almost at midday, and wrecked a horrible vengeance upon the Sicilian assassins who slew David Hennessy. Eleven men are dead to- night, who were happy yesterday over their victory in the courts.
 The work of blood was accomplished without disorder and without pillage. This was not an unruly midnight mob i; it was simply sullen. determined body of citizens, who took into their own hands what justice had ignominiously failed to do.
 The Chief of Police was slain on October l5, and that very night evidence began to accumulate, showing that his death had been deliberately planned by a secret tribunal and carried out boldly and successfully by tools of the con- spirators.
 The trial lasted twenty-five days, and though the evidence was conclusive the jury showed evidences of having been tempered with and failed to agree.
 Last night body of cool-headed men lawyers. doctors, merchants and polit- ical leaders-all persons of influence and social standing, quietly met and decided that some action must be taken, and the peoples justice, swift and sure, be visited upon those whom the jury had neglected to punish.
 This morning call for a mass meet ing at Clay Square, on Canal street, ap- peared in the papers, which generally editorially deprecated violence. The significant closing sentence of the call was, "Come prepared for action."
 Down in large room on Bienville and Royal streets there was an arsenal guarded by body of citizens.
 The call was answered by the popu. lace. At 10 o'clock there was & crowd of several thousand anxious people con- gregated around the statue. They hardly knew what was going to happen, but they seemed ready to go to any length, ard while there were, of course, many men of the lower element in the throng, the large proportion were leading people.
 There were addresses short and pithy and business-like and the assemblage was soon worked up to the highest pitch. Each of the speakers said there had been great mass meeting months before, (which had met quietly and dis persed peacefully, so the law might take it's course. The law had failed, and the time to act had come.
 w. S. Parkerson, the leader, is law yer and president of the Southern Ath- letic Club, and the man who led the re- form movement three years ago. Wal ter D. Denegar, another of the speakers, is one of the leaders of the New Or leans bar. John c. Wickliff, also a prominent attorney, and James D. Houston, one of the foremost men of the State, also spoke.
 After denouncing Detective O'Malley, who is alleged to have tempered with the jury, the speakers announced they would lead the way to the parish prison, Mir. Wickliff concluding with these words: "Shall the execrable Mafia be allowed to flourish in this city? Shall the Mafa be allowed to cut down our citizens on the public streets by the fo1l means of assassination? Shall the Mafa be allowed to bribe jurors and let murderers go free?"
 By this time the crowd had swelled tc 5000 or more, and before any one could realize what had happened the great throng, gaining recruits a, every step, was tramping down the street to the neighborhood of the prison stopping only once, and that was at the arsenal, where double -barrelled shot | I