Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-20
STILL TALKING.
Consul COrte, of New Orleans,
in Washington,
Accompanied by a Boy Who Escaped
from the Mob
BY Hiding Under a Box in the
Parish Prison.

Both on Their Way to Rome to Give
Premier Rudini Personal Account OF
the New Orleans Incident-In an Inter-
view Signor COrte Gets Very Much Ex-
cited and "Roasts" America I'm General.
Both Declare the Dead Men Innocent.
WASHINGTON, May 20.-A foreign
looking, well-dresSe Sed man, with boy of
ID, arrived Sunday evening, in this city
and went at once to the Metropolitan
hotel. The elder of the two is Signor
Corte, the consul at New Orleans. The
younger is Gaspari Grimaldi, better
known AS Marchesi Grimaldi, the boy
who, it is charged, gave the whistle as a
signal that Hennessy was approaching
ON the night when the chief was shot to
death in the streets of New Orleans.
Grimaldi was confined in the prison at
the time the citizens broke in and took
vengeance on the Malta ringleaders. He
saved his life by hiding under box in a
cell across the corridor from the one in
which his father, the elder Macheca,
was riddled with bullets.
Consul Corte and the boy are on their
way to Rome to give Marquis Rudini
personal account of all that happened in
New Orleans. They left Washington
for New York Monday afternoon, and
will sail for Europe either on the Males
tic or the City of Berlin.
Americans Roasted"
A reporter called on Signor Corte
Monday afternoon and found him will
ing as ever to talk. He began by pro-
testing vigorously against the treatment
he had received at the hands of the
newspapers.
81 pray you," said he, ''to state that
all that has been said about me is false,
absolutely. The very fact that the mar
quis has summoned me to Rome, to CON
fer with me ON the situation, is proof of
the confidence imposed i'll me by my
government. | have no fault to find
with the population of New Orleans.
They are a superb people, and, as a rule
are opposed to all that has been done.
The trouble is that there is large class
of Knownothing people there who are
hostile to the foreigners. The difficulty
was all brought about by them. also
hold Mayor Shakespeare responsible for
much that has taken place"
When reference was made to the letter
from the mayor to the governor of
Louisiana, asking that Corte's recall be
demanded, the latter became very
much excited and says that he had been
unfairly treated on all sides.
Declares the Dead Men Innocent.
"But then," he continued, hundreds
of law-abiding citizens have called upon
me at the consulate to express their dis
approval and the disgust at the outrage
that was committed upon these prison.
ers. Oh, but that was a shocking out
ragei for, while there may have been
criminals among their number, these
men were, | believe, as innocent of the
charge Of numbering Hennessy as YOU or
l. But Gaspari Grimaldi, the boy who
escaped that day, is upstairs, and will
tell you what he saw, if you wish"
Gaspari's Story.
In few minutes Gaspari came down.
He is well-grown boy, as handsome as
any young Sicilian ever read about in
fiction. He said he was between IA and
Is years old, but that he had grown a
great deal since he had been put in Jail.
AS he told his story he gradually be-
came aroused and fiercely acted out his
tale, depicting how he escaped, 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 da chiefa come," said the boy, ex-
citedly. "Me no whistle. Me know
nodding abouta da whole thing. Me
fadder was putta in Jail, too, and he was
killed-kiled for nodding."