Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-08
THE NEW ORLEANS LYNCH
ING.


Vestigate the lynching Of the Italians
in New Orleans on March 18th, have
completed their labors and made a
scathing report to the presiding Judge.
A perusal Of it reveals one Of the most
damnable conspiracies against the
public peace that h IS ever been laid
before the American people, and
brings the blush of shame to every
citizen who believes in the dignity
and impartiality Of our courts of JUS
tice.
That portion of the jury who
tried the assassins was bribed to pre-
vent verdict Of guilty being found
against them, no sane man can doubt
after reading the evidence set forth
in the grand jury's report, and the
only wonder is that the people Of the
Crescent City had self control enough
to stop them from wreaking VEN
geance On the arch conspirators who
brought about that shameful mis-
carriage Of justice. Lionel Adams,
the prominent criminal lawyer, and
detective O'Malley, who concocted
the plot and carried it to successful
issue, deserve the same fate that WAS
SO terribly visited upon the assassins
themselves. TIE grand jury find
that in the city of New Orleans there
Is secret society composed of Italians
and Sicilians who left their native
land under assumed names TO avoid
conviction and punishment for crimes
committed there, and escaped con-
Vict5 and bandits outlawed in their
own land, seeking that city for the
congenial companionship of their own
class. 1t also finds that no less than
eleven hundred Italians and Sicilians
with criminal records, have landed in
the city Of New Orleans within the
last few years and constitute con-
tinual menace to the peacs and good
order Of the city. From the evidence
the grand jury find that eight of the
eleven men killed were beyond doubt
American citizens and another had
declared his intentions, an act which
carrie with it a remuneration Of his
allegiance to the land of his birth.
They do not find any indictments
against the men who took the law in
to their own hands, and by their de-
termined action rooted out from their
fair city the putrid cancer that was
eating away the very foundations
that underlie our form of government,
but on the other hand they approve
of the work 80 thoroughly done at
the Parish prison, in these words:
at cannot b questioned that
sacr>t organizations whose teachings
are hostile to the fun lamental prin-
ciples Of the Government of the
United States must be continual
menace to tho good order of society
and the material welfare Of the peo-
pie. Law is the safeguard of society.
LIS just execution expresses the will
OF the people in condemnation of
crime; but where this lofty principle
is condemned by the practice OF
assassination for revenge, or spite,
and concealment under the most bind
ing oaths, rendering powerless the
efforts OF law to reach tho chief actors
and secure witnesses, il becomes the
duty Of the pooplo, in tho exercise OF
their sovereign rights, to issue their
decree of Condemnation. That verdict
has boon rendered; tho power of the
Malta is broken. 1t must Uo DESTROYED
as an element Of danger, a creation OF
OF leprous growth in thus community
Wno can doubt but that the honest
judgment Of the American people
regardless of natiqpality, will uphold
them in their action and bid them &c
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