Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-22
HARD TO SECURE
Information Concerning the Italians
LynChed at New Orleans.

Lynohed at New Orleans.
WASHINGTON, April %. - Attorney
General Miller, has received letter
from the district attorney at New Or
leans, stating there is much difficulty is
securing evidence as to the nationality of
the men lynched by the New Orleans
mob. The district attorney says that
the affair has left the community in such
an excited frame that those who could tell
the most will say the least He had no
federal grand jury to aid him in ferret
ing out the facts, and he must get at
them through the means of detectives
or through the voluntary consent of
parties to give their evidence.
The Italians of the locality, who know
most of the antecedents of their fellow
Italians who We're lynched, are naturally
disinclined to give voluntary testimony
against their coutrymen or those who
were associated with them. The district
attorney reports, therefore, that he is
necessarily hampered and must proceed
slowly. His report was expected a week
ago, but his letter indicates that he
will need some days and perhaps some
weeks before forwarding the informa-
ton upon which Secretary Blaine and
the president will supplement the action
they have thus far taken.
Americas Grievances Against Italy.
ROME, April 22,-The newspapers of
this city are complaining bitterly of what
they term the "leisuely manner" of Mr..
Blaine in replying to the communications
of the Italian government relative to the
New Orleans affair. They seem to for
get i'll Italy that using the usual means
of communication between governments,
it takes three weeks for Italy and the
United States to exchange communica-
tions. They also seem to forget that the
United States has Just as good grounds
of complaint against the Italian govern
ment as the papers claim the latter has
against the American secretary of state.
Take, for instance, the case of the
Italian Salvatore Paladina. The Amer
lean government demanded that this
offender against the laws of the United
States, who had fled to Italy, be extra
dited to stand trial upon the charge of
counterfeiting. The Italian govern
ment, two weeks after the receipt of
this demand, asked the American lega-
ton here what citizenship Paladina
claimed, whether American or Italian
In response to this question the Amer
lean legation stated ON the same day
that the request for information was re-
ceiVed, that Paladina claimed TO be an
Italian subject. This was the last
heard of the matter for two months,
when, in answer to the United States
governments request for the extradition
of Paladini, the Italian government
stated that the constitution and laws of
Italy did now allow Of the carrying out
of the treaty existing between Italy and
the United States, so far rs the extradi
ton of Italians was concerned.
Italy again took this position relative
to the Italian constitution and laws
when the Unised States subsequently de-
manded the extradition of the two Ital-
ians who We're implicated in the murder
of Paymaster Mcclure, an employe of a
contractor who was engaged in col.-
structing railroad near WilkesbarTe,
Pa, and Hugh Flanagan, another en-
ploye of the same contractor, who was
killed and robbed of sum of money
which the paymaster had to pay laborers,
and for which crime third Italian was
convicted and executed by the Pennsyl
vania authorities. His two accomplices
mado their escape from the United
States and returned to Italy, but the
Italian government refused TO surrender
them for trial, basing its refusal ON the
ground that it would not be constitu
tional to surrender Italian subjects for
trial in foreign country.