Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-19
PROBING THE JURORS
That Acc uitted the Italian Assassins
of Chief HennesSey.
HOPES OF DISCOVERING BRIBERY
0'kalley Certain of Being Indicted by the
Grand Jury.
NEWSPAPER MAN KILLED BY A LAWYER
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.

| ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
NEW ORLEANS, March 18.-The COM
mittee which had charge OF the movement
against the men accused of the assassination
of Chief Hennessey is now investigating the
jury, in the hope of finding if there were
any members of it bribed. The jurors will
be assembled and will be asked to give their
explanation of their verdicts and be SUBJ
| jected to vigorous eross-examination, in
the belief that it will develop all the facts.
Nearly all the jurors, including the fore
man, Seligman, who has left town, heve
given statements OF what took place in the
jury room.
Those who voted for the acquittal of all
the prisoners irrst that they were justified
in so doing; that the Judge instructed them
to give the prisoners the benefit of doubt,
and that their verdict was based on these
instructions. They voted for acq1ittal be-
cause they did not think the State had
made out the case, and because they did
not believe one of the State witnesses. The
refusal of the District Attorney to summon as
witnesses, the men who were the first at the
scene of the assassination, who picked up
Hennessey when he was shot down and who
Roe, who was shot in the ear by one of the
assassins, impressed them unfavorably.
OMaIley Will Re Indicted.
So far none of the jurors have shown the
slightest weakening, aud they repudiate en-
phatically the proposition that any money
was used to influence their verdict. The
grand jury to-day also began its inyestiga-
ton. of the killing of the Italian
prisoners and the causes which led to
the miscarriage of justice. Bribery has been
accepted as the answer to the latter question,
and Detective O'Malley and the jury came in
for a large share of the days inquiry. No
findings were returned; but it is said OMalley
citizens committee will make thorough in:
vestigation of the bribery matter, and will
leave no stone unturned until all the facts in
the case are brought to light.
Colonel L. n. Boylan, who was Chief of
Police at the time, in an interview to-day states
positively that Hennessey did arrest Esposito
in jackson Square while Mooney, the New
York detective. waited outside with carriage,
and Esposito was hurriedly driven to the police
station and held all night, and the next morn
ing spirited aboard steamship and taken to
all the credit for the arrest, and Hennessey
never received cent of money for his serv-
ices.
A Newspaper Man Killed.
A telephone message just received from the
Central Station reports shooting scrape on
Canal street between Arthur Dunn, one OF the
counsels for the State in the Hennessey case
and Frank Waters, a locally well-known news
paper reporter. Ten shots were fired. Waters
was killed and Dunn seriously wounded.
dispatch from Washington says: Baron
Fava, the Italian Minister, to-day received the
first reports from the Italian Consul at New
Orleans In relation to the killing of the Italians
there last Saturday. These reports, 1t is said,
sustain the position taken by Baron Fava in
his protect to Mr. Blaine of March Is with re-
lation to the inaction of the authorities of New
Orleans before and during the shooting.
In transmitting copy of the reports to Sec |
retary Blaine, Baron Fava repeated that the |
conduct of the local authorities at New Orleans |
was in the highest degree blamable, for the |
reason that it was not in keeping with their |
duties to protect the life of the Italian subjects,
to the terms of the treaties existing |
between the two countries, as had been called |
TO the attention of the Governor by Secretary |
Blaine with an unquestiOnabe spirit of justice, |
to which the Baron said he bore cheerful wit
ness