The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-05-20
THE LYNCHERS JUSTIFIED
Summary of the New Orleans
Grand Jury's Report.
Six Men Indicted for Tampering
With Talesmen.

The New Orleans Grand Jury, who fol
several weeks have been probing the Incl
dent Of March II last, when a mob OF citi
ze:s of that town shot and hanged several
Italians in the Parish Prison, have presented
thsir report to the Criminal Court there
After reciting the complaints and charges
the report says:
I'VE have referred to the large number oil
citizens participating in tais demonstration,
estimated by judges at from 5000 to S0O0 and
regarded as Il spontaneous uprising OF the
people The magnitude Of the affair makes
it a difficult task 60 fix the guilt upon any
number 0: the participants. In fact, the act
seems to involve the entire people OF the
parish and city OF New Orleans, so profuse is
their sympathy and so extended their con-
nection with the affair
In view of these considerations the thor
ougn exan,:nat lion OF the subject has failed
to disclose the necessary evidence to Justify
the Grand Jnry in presenting indictments"
The report is quite voluminous. asserting
the existence OF the Maia tthe Italian secret
society at New Orleans, aad Charging that
RenneSsey's death Was the result o. his close
pursuit Of the Italian murierers.
New Orleans, the report declares, has
heau refuge for Italian briganis AMI cut
throatS, banded together in society whose
teachings are contrary to the principles OF
this Government. Law must regulate these
rransgressUrs; but where the law cannot do
it, through the intervention Of these secret
societies, then the people must exercise their
sovereign rights and Issue their decree of
condemnation
Thus the action o. the band of Nav Or
leans citizens who marched into the Parish
Prison is justified
The Grand Jury also present indictments
against six persons, chief Of whom is Detec-
tive Dominic C. O'Maltey, who in person is
directly charged with what the Grand Jury
term the mistrial and unwarranted verdict
in the Hennessey case. He and his asso-
ciates are held for thu alleged bribery OF
talesmen.
The Grand Jury furthermore report that
they have discovered that three OF the Hen
messy jurors, il not more, were bribed.
The Jury's Report in Washington.
A Washington dispatch to the Associated
Press says that the report of the New Or
leans Grand Jury upon the killing Of the
italians was fruitful theme for discussion
among people at the Department Of State
1t may be SAID that the findings of the Grand
Jury excited no surprise for some such con-
clusion was expected. The attempt to palli-
ate the infraction Of law by offsetting the
alleged attempts at jury fixing is deprecated
by the legal minds Of the department: but
there is well-defned opinion that, on the
whole, the outcome Of the case will be bsne-
fetal in its effect upon the turbulent foreign
elements in the United States, inasmuch as
it will make clear to them the fact that they
cannot rely upon treaties to escape respon-
sibility to the great public for their unlaW-
full acts.
"The report Of the Grand Jury will, it is
expected, reach Secretary Blaine IN tns
course of time, and figure in the ot1clal cor.
respondence between the United States and
Italy"
An American Stoned in Florence.
On the day that the New Orleans Grand
Jury made its report William Jacques, an
was out driving with his daughter at Flor
ence,. Italy, when a mob Of people pursued
his carriage, attacked it, -pelted 1t with
stones, and severely injured his daughter,
who interfered in his defence.
Jacques, according to Boston dispatch, IS
the electrician Of the American Bell Tele-
phone Company and we'll known in Boston
and the principal cities Of this country. He
sailed from New York for England and the
Continent about month ago for pleasure,
and intended to be absent about fve or six
months. He was accompanied BY his wife
and two children, both daughters. one about
eight and the other about ten years old he
is a man of about forty years, and Of very
quiet and unpretentious disposition He very
seldom expresses any opinion concerning
public matters, and his friends ara entirely
at loss to understand how such man could
become the victim Of mob. He is highly
cultured gentleman and was formerly col
lege professor