Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-18
THE NEW ORLEANS TRAGEDY.
Consul Corte and the BOY GrinaIdo Are In
This City.

This City.
THEY ARE SEEN BY A STAR REPORTER AID TALK
FREELY OF THE AFFAIR-rRE CONSUL THINKS
HE HAS BEEN UNFAIRLY TREATED AND HIS
LANGUAGE MIsREPREsENrED.
A foreign-looking, rather youngish, WE'LL
dressed man and boy of fourteen, hand
some black-eyed Corsican, arrived last evening
in this city and went at once TO the Metropoli-
tan Hotel, where they took rooms. These two
are perhaps of all men the most familiar with
the Italian side of the New Orleans troubles,
beginning back before the time Of the Hem
messy murder and eliminating in the tragedy
at the Parish Prison.
The elder of the two is signor Corte, the con-
sui at New Orleans. The younger is Gaspari
Grimaldo, though he is better known ss Asper
Marchese. Grimaldo is the boy, who. il was
charged, gave the whistle, signal that Hennes-
sy was approaching on the night when the chief
shot to death in the streets of New Orleans
Grlmaldo was confined IN the prison at the
time the mob broke in ana took vengeance for
the death OF Chief Hennessy. and IL the one
who, IL Will be remembered. saved his life by
hiding under a box in a cell across the corridor
from the one in which HE father, the elder
Marchese, was crouching when has body was
riddled with bullets.
Consul Corte and the boy are on their way to
Rome to give Marquis Rudini a personal &C.
count of all that transpired in New Orleans.
They intend leaving for New York this after
noon and will sail for Europe either on the
Majestic or the City Of Berlin.
CONSUL ooRTEs STORY.
A STAR reporter called on Mr.. Corte this
afternoon and found him at home and willing
to talk upon the subject of what he had done
l. -
English only indifferently and at times found
great difficulty IN expressing himself. AT such
times he would let large pieces OF Italian drop
into his sentences.
The interview was conducted in French and
badly broken English. Mr.. Corte spoke freely
and decidedly and began by protest vigorously
against the treatment he had received at the
hands of the newspapers.
Il pray you. said he, make it TO state in
your paper that all that has been said about me
is false absolutely. The very fact that the
quis has summoned me to Rome TO confer with
me on the situation is proof of the confidence
imposed in me by my government They de-
sire me to talk over matters more freely and
more in detail than can be done through the
medium of letters.
SHOULD BE No BREACH WITH ITALY.
"There il one thing want TO say right here
to you for your paper and that is that do not
see any reason why the troubles in New Or
leans should make any breach between two
such friendly nations Italy and the United
States and nothing that l shall say will be OF Q
nature either to create or widen such breach.
In the first place do not have any fault 10
hnd with the population of New Orleans They
are a fine set of people, and az a rule they are
opposed to all that has been done. The trouble
is that there is large class of know-nothing
people there who are hostile TO the foreigners
and the difficulties were all brought about by
than 1 also hold MaNar Cha
sible for much that has taken place"
When reference WAS made 10 the letter from
the mayor TO the governor Of Louisiana asking
that Mr.. Cortes recall be demanded the latter
became very much excited and said that he had
been unfairly treated on all sides. But them
he continued, hundreds Of law-abiding
citizens have called upon me at the
consulate to express their disapproyal
and the disgust at the outrage that COM
mitted upon those poor Italians. Since then
have been misquoted and much that have
said has been omitted or distorted into mean
ing what never said One trouble, you KNOW
is that can take no Official recognition Of that
extra-judicial body, that committee of fifty.
only know the governor, the mayor and the
Judiciary.
SHOCKING OUTRAGE
"Oh. but that was q shocking outrage that
was inflicted upon those helpless imprisoned
men in parish prison. Outrage, yes, for while
number these men that were killed that day
were, believe under heaven, innocent Of the
charge of numbering Hennessy; as innocent Of
the charge AZ you or 1 are. But Gaspari Gri-
maldo, the boy who escaped that day, is up
stairs and viii tell you what he saw If you
wish"
THE BoY's GRAPHIC ACCOUNT.
In Q few moments Gaspari came down.
well-grown boy, as handsome as any young
Corsican ever met with In fiction He
said that he was fourteen years and six
months old, but that he had grown .
great deal since he had been put in
jail As he told his story he gradually became
aroused and fairly acted out his tale, showing
how he escaped, how the men lay when they
were shot and how the armed men behaved as
they broke in the jail and chased their victims
from room to room
..Da putta me in Jail for whistling when do
chiefa come" said the boy excitedly. Me no
thing. Me ladder was put in jail too.
and he was killed-killed for noting.
Why. when they putta me in Jail
me little boy only so big. no whistle. 1 no
rooms in da jail and wanta me 20 tell al
know. / know noting and NO tella lie even
when rope put round ma neck
BROKE INTO TIE JAZZ
sAnd den da day when da all broke IN vid
TREMENDOUS guns We run upstairs and hide
all unda box, all but head, and look out
and see me fodder cross da hall
and den da all shoot him-bine-end
me fodder drops down and big fatta man,
big roun' man, broke da gun and put in another
bullet and da keep on shooting alta dA men
some wid TREMENDOUS guns and some Wild REVOLT
wer until they killed dem ALL And den
when da almost ALA kill the policemen come
and make out 70 try Is save every boda hives.
know da bigga man We see him round d
market place. Oh down IN Data town a man
shoota Q man and da know dA man
shoota . man da no punish him. De- putta me
in prison for noting and dsn d l1la -
fadder for noting"