Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-03
JUDGE MARR'8 VIEWS.
No Law Under which a whole Commun-
itN Can re Indicted.


ity Can BE Indicted.
NEW ORLEANS, April 3.-Judge Mari,
the presiding magistrate over the sec-
ton Of the criminal district court in
which the grand jury is now serving,
Wednesday expires ed the private opin-
ion that nothing would ever be done to
the lynchers who caused the killing Of
the Italians. 1t was impossible to Grim
inally prosecute 5000 ersons, he said,
and referred to the famous passage in
Burke's Grafton that there is no law un-
der which a whole community can be
indicted.
Even if the grand jury were to in
dict the leaders no jury could ever be
secured to try them. Such publicity
had been given to the affair that every
one was conversant with the facts of
the case, and no one was without
fixed opinion. ...
A clo examination of the records of
the eleven alleged aSsassius, discloSes
the fact that all but four of the eleven
slain We're registered voters. ether by
birth OF naturalization.
Four Others whom Consul COrte
claims as entitled to rejection Of the
Italian government are Trachino, Bag
netto, Monas eric and Comitez
The first named is found to have been
a voter in the parish of st. Charles.
Bagnetto is proved to have been
fugitive murderer of Palermo aud a
member of the Esposito band Of high
waymen.
Marchesi was veteran of Garibaldis S
army, but fed from Palermo while
charged with numbering female.
Trahino was also a robber in Sicily.
Of Comitez nobody seems to know
anything, He and Monasterio were
buried in the potter's field.
Consul Corte is doing al he can to
reach the facts of the affair. though he
has not received that courtesy at the
hands Of Governor Nichols aud Mayor
Shakespeare that his position warrants.
The grand jury is holding daily sessions.
work of the Grand jury.
The grand jury has found three in
dictments in blank, two against Selg-
man and Borsen for bribery, and three
against O'Malley, for conspiring to
bribe. Selgman is in Cincinnati, Lorsen
is here. and O'Malleys Whereabouts is a
mystery. thought it is nm nlerstood lie is
in Chrstinana Lake Shore, Within 100
miles of New Orleans, surrounded by q
heavy guard, which he has had since
the killing of the Italian prisoners.
Governor Nichols Takes 1t Easy.
Governor Nichols went to Baton
Rouge Wednesday morning to attend a
meeting of the state board of educa.
ton The governor is not concerning
himself much about the complications
that have arisen, and seems to t. ink
that there is nothing further for him to
say or do at present,
The Atlanta Con,titU i0n'- Nirw,
ATLANTA, April 3.-The Constitution
says that it was Mr.. Blaina's duty to in
form the Italian minister first, that the
Malta assassins were not executed be-
cause they were Italians, but lecau5e
they were professional murdelCrs; and,
second. that the United States govern
ment has and can have no jurisdiction
in calling the executioners Of the assas.
sins to account The Italian govern
ment ought 10 be told even now that
the United States gOve.nment popus
to do nothing, beCa Sc 1t can do moth
ing; that the American people strongly
sympathize with the spirit and the mo
tive that led to the execution of the
MaEa assassins; and that the only way
for the Italian government to remedy
matters is to recall its eApatriated assas
sins with its minister.