Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-15
a TERRIBLE RESORT.
Eleven Of the New Orleans SicIlian
Suspects Lynched.
CITIZEN EXEcUTIoNERS
An Apparent Miscarriage Of Justice Net
with PrOmptltnds
~
CITIZEN ExEcUTIoNERs
THE MALTA MUST GO.
; a Remarkable Exhibition of Indignation
and natioa-Assassination Not
20 BE Toieratcd--Thc Executed itai-
sans-Their wounds-rhe
Coroncr's Inquest
IBy telegraph 70 the pIspa,cs.l

Eicilian asssssins who relentlessly slew
David @. Hennessey. and though there are
eleven men dead tonight who were happy
yesterday over theuylctory in the greatest
criminal trial the city has ever witnessed,
che work Of blood was accomplished with
out unnecessary disorder, without rioting,
without pillaging, and without the IN
fiction of suffering upon any limo
cent save one, and ne was only slightly
hurt. It was not an unruly midnight mob.
II was simply q sullen. determined body OF
citizens. who took into their own hands
what justice had ANONYMOUSLY failed 70
do.
HxSNEssxY's ASSASSINATION.
The Chief OF Police was slain on October
18th, and that very night the evidence be-
gan 10 accumulate showing that his death
had been deliberately planned by secret
tribunal and carried out boldly and sue
cessfully by the tools of the conspirators.
Tho trial lasted twenty-five days, and
though the evidence seemed conclusive
the Jury, currently charged with having
been tempered with, failed to convict
Last night q body OF cool-headed men,
lawyers, doctors. merchants, and political
leaders, all persons of influence and social
standing, quietly met and decided that
some action must be taken and the peo-
ple's Justice, swift and sure. visited upon
those whom the jury had neglected TO
punish.
CALL TO ACTION.
This morning a call for q mass-meeting
NJ CLAW monument on Canal street appeared
in the papers. which editorially depre-
Gated violence. The significant closing
sentence of the call was Come pre-
pared for action" Down in large room
on Bienville and Royal streets there was
an arsenal which had been provided by
the body of citizens. The call was an
.swered by the populace. At 10 o'clock
there was q crowd of several thousand
anxious people congregated around the
statue. They hardly knew what was going
to happen, but they seemed ready to go to
any length, and while there were of course
many of the lower element in the throng
! 9 large proportion were OF the leading peo-
pie of the town.
BUgINKss-LIKE ADDREssEs.
There were three addresses, short and
pithy and business-like, and the assem-
blage, not unwillingly, was soon keyed up
70 high pitch and demonstrative IN its
denuncistion of the assassins. Each OF the
speakers said there had been great mass
meeting months before which had met
quietly and dispersed peacefully, SO that
the law might take its course. The law
had failed. The time to act had come.
THE LEADERS.
w. s. Patterson, the leader, Is promi-
nent lawyer here, the president of the
Southern Athletic Club and the man who
J led the vigorous city-reform movement
three years ago.
MR.. PARKERsoN's ADDRESS.
MI. Patterson was the first speaker. He
said that once before he had appeared be-
fore the people in grand mass-meeting as
sembled to discuss matters vital to the
interest Of the community. And again he
faced the people of New Orleans to de-
nounce the most infamous act consequent
on the most revolving crime in the criminal
annals of any community. That was the
finding of the jury in the murder trial yes
terday, and that crime was, as everybody
knew, the foul assassination OF the Chief
of Police. ~ desire neither name mol
fame nor glory" SAID MIR. Paterson. u
am plain citizen, and as such and good
citizen am here. l am here to say that
things have come to such a crisis that tall
Is idle.
ACTION NECESSARY.
Action must be the thing now. Tire
mendous cheers.l In civilized commuui
ties tribunals are organized and are dele
gated to punish the guilty. Crimes mus
meet prompt punishment, but wheneve
and wherever the courts fail, whenevel
iuries are recreant, then is the time for thu
people TO do what the courts and iurieI
have failed TO do. l"Yes." Hurrah,
go on,n go on" "We're with you"
THE LAW DEFEATED.
In the midst of peaceful communit.
IN officer Of the law was stricken down b,
a band of assassins. The law has beef
defeated. The time has come when thi
infamy must case. ScouEdrels must NEE
with punishment, murderers must be givel
their deserts. The jury has failed to act
ask you, citizens of New Orleans, whethe
we shall suffer tins infamous condition o
affairs any longer2 ICries of No, no. "
ask you to consider fairly and calml
what Is TO be done-shall there be action
ICries of Yes" Let's GO" Lead on. "
We are resdy-these gentlemen and her
present-to do what is necessary; to lea
you. What shall il be?
W>lko- N nnnaror aDafbar of tba spQQk
ers, is Of the leaders of the New Orlean
Bar; John G. wicklife is also prominen
attorney, and James ID. Houston is one @
= the foremost men of the State.
ADErHcrIyE DENOUNCED.
After denouncing Detective O'Malley
who is supposed TO have tempered wit
the Jury, the speakers announced that the
/, would lead the way to the parish prison
Mr.. wicklide concluding with these words
"Shsll the execrsble Malta be allowed t
flourish in this city? Shall the Malta b
! allowed to cut down our citizens on publ
streets by the foul means of assassination
Shall the Mana be allowed to bride juror
70 Let murderers 60 scott-free?"
TIE DETERMINED MULTITUDE ARMED.
By this time the crowd had swelled I
1000 or more. and before any one coul
realize what had happened the gres
throng, gaining recruits at every step, wa
tramping down the streets to the neigh
borhood Of the prison. stopping only ono
and that was at the arsenal, where double
barrel shotguns. Winchester rifles. an
pistols were handed out to the responsible
and respectable citizens in the party. Th
starting Of the crowd bad an electric effeS
on the city. Boon the streets were aliy
With people, running from all direction
and joining the main body, which move
sullsnly down Rampant street to the jai
near Congo Square.
ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE poPuLAck-
Doors and windows we're thrown ope
snd men, women. aud children crowde
on the galleries 10 encourage those wh
were taking part aud to witness the scenes
Whom the main crowd from Canal stree
19oched the prison there bad already co
Ipetst there dense throng, ell eager
sAke . hand in whateyer might happier
Z When Shc vanguard OF armed citizen
reached the prison. which IA msny aouarf