Evening journal., 1891-05-14
CORTE REMAINED COOL.
He Claims He Saved the Mob
Leaders Lives.
REVEEGEFUL ITALIANS QUIETED.

Even the sicilIan Women wished 70 kin
Mayor Shakespeare and Citizens Park
erson and wickiine, but He Connected
Order and Made Them Keep the Peace.
NEW ORLEANS, May 14-Signor Corte,
the Italian consul here, was interviewed
relative to the summons from Rudini. lie
said:
'As the consular agent OF the Italian
| government during the recent stirring
events l am about the only accredited
Italian who is able to officially testify in
person at Rome relative TO the unfortu-
nate affair and the numberless complica-
tions which have originated thereirom-
My testimony, supported by documents
which have carefully drawn up touching
even the slightest detail Of the affair, is re-
quired at home
Not Recalled.
my chief desires My presence, lie has
summoned me and am about 60 obey. At
any rate, why should l be recalleJY Be
cause | have expressed my opinion, as an
Italian, upon the barbarity of the acts com
planned of God forbid that as a gentle
man and free agent, in free country,
and officially the representative Of one OF
the European powers, | should be taken to
task for having courage to express an opin-
ion upon matters vital TO the dearest senti-
ments of my countrymen.
He Saved the Mayors Life.
"Do you people expect that ! think as
your mayor doesg or the foreman Of the
grand iuryf ! have saved Mayor Shakes
peare's life. And / have done the same
service to Mr.. Parkerson and to Mr.. Wick
life and other leaders
1.-THE day after the killing there was an
absolute, almost uncomfortable detcrmi-
nation among certain Of my countrymen
to kill the mayor and all those who had a
hand in the butchery, but / restrained
their hands l controlled the furious men.
told them TO beware / said that il any
harm befell those gentlemen would inn
mediately and unreservedly denuuncc the
perpetrators Of the deed. This firm stand
checked them, and succeeded in holding
them with the promise that l would do
everything in my power to obtain justice,
redress and satisfaction.
A Cheerful View.
81 have every confidence In the saying,
ANS well that ends we'll The future
has peace and cordiality in store Evil
run their course, and the reign Of calm
reason and sober judgment is at hand.
'Ihere will surely result from the long
Investigations, the official demands and
G responses, and the diplomatic attempts at
amicable understanding, a satisfactory
Y adjustment of the imbroglio It would
!, only be an act Of humanity II the solution
! Of the problem is found in the payment OF
( an indemnity to the families of the dead
4 Italians / tell you that have conclusive
a evidence that among the killed were sew
\ eral Italian subjects, and that they could
: have proved an alibi as clear as daylight
. to exculpate them from the Hennessy
| murder Those men have left their wives
I and children destitute. Would it not be
/, Just and equitable TO indemnify the be-
) reaved onesg"
! Driven from Their Purpose.
In further interview Signor Corte said
!. that on the night OF the lynching more
= than a dozen had called at his house and
n declared that the murder of their fellow
d citizens who had been slaughtered after
3. they had been acquitted by their fellow
y citizens demanded revenge. They declared
) their intention OF blowing up with dyna-
a mite the Pickwick club, Of which the lead
IS ers of the mob were members. lie argued
!, with them several hours on the subject.
pointing out that any act of this kind
would do more harm than good would
stir up the anger Of the mob against the
3 Italians and precipitate a race riot, in
e which women and children would lose
a their lives.
r These arguments seemed TO have no eff
feet on them and it was only when he
t threatened to denounce by name to the
D authorities the men who proposed this
4 crime that they abandoned their purpose
u The Women Wanted Revenge.
g Several Italian women also called on
Z him the same night aud insisted on re-
, venge, even If 1t precipitated a riot. When
he was insulted few nights after by hood
= = lums breaking down his fence and ringing
q his bell several hundred Italians wanted
TO act as a body guard at his house, but he
dissuaded them from doing so, and ap-
pealed in preference to the municipal au-
:, thorities for protection. In regard to the
z charge that a large number OF Italians had
II been induced to naturalize themselves
u fraudulently he admitted that 1t was true,
and showed 250 or 300 naturalization pa
pers which had been surrendered TO him
by Italians
a Their holders explained that they he no
y intention Of becoming American cit.fals,
e but in the last campaign they had ssen
: told that their votes were necessary TO de-
J. feat the Mckinley bill; that the bin WIS
r very inimical to Italian interests, and
s would cut down the trade between ifalg
5 and the United States and injure te, ;al-
ian colony here. They were told thu tiiey
2 would be furnished with natural,sa. ion
1 papers and they were asked to vote on
y them and they did so.
Fraudulent Naturalization Paper
Consul Corte explained that the ri pers
were fraudulent and most of them were
not issued to the men whose name they
bore or whose signatures they pretended TO
d contain.
S He called attention, for instance, to the
g papers OF Polizzi, the half crazed Sicilian
: who was lynched. They pretended to be
o signed by Polizzi, who could neither read
{ nor write And he mentioned another case
!, | where an Italian boy Of eighteen had been
S furnished with naturalization papers and
e regulation papers.
al Teemer Challenges Gaudaur.
ST. LOUIS, May 14.--John Teemer, for
merly of McKeesport but now of St
Joseph, Mo-, has challenged Jacob Gau-
4 daur, formerly of St. Louis but now Of
1 ranada IN row him three races for s. 5O0