The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-19
MORE KILLING.
Sensational and Fatal Shooting Growing
Out Of the New erleanj Affair.

New ORLEANS, March 1S-There was a
sensational and fatal shooting tonight,
growing out Of the Italian case. Frank
Waters. newspaper reporter, who was ln-
tOXicated, was abusing the citizens commit
tee and those connected with the Hennessy
case, when Captain Arthur Dunn, one of the
counsel for the State, came by. Waters.
shouted at him: "There is one of them
now; why don't he take 1t up?" Dunn
advanced toward Waters, who drew pistol
and began firing
Dunn quickly drew his. Waters fired six
shots and Dunn five. Waters fell dead
with one bullet through his face and another
through his head. Dunn was shot twice, IN
the right breast and abdomen. He is be-.
leved TO be mortally wounded. The men
have for a long time been political enemies.
Dunn for many years has been a leading
politician. During the shooting two by
ISLANDERS were slightly wounded.
GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION.
The Grand jury to-day began an inyesti-
CATION OF the killing of the Sieiliau prison.
ers and the causes which led to the mis-
carriage of justice. Bribery has been al
legged as an answer to the latter question,
and Detective OMalley and the jury came
in for large share of the days inquiry.
WASHINGTON, March 1S-Barun Fava,
the Italian Minister, to-day received reports
from the Italian Consul at New Orleans in
lcSdlu W tne hlli'uk VI Tue OlClliduS tlloIO
SATURDAY.. These reports, it is said, sustain
the position taken by Baron Fava in his
protest to Mr. Blaine on Marth 18th
with relation to the inaction of the authOri-
ties at New Orleans before and during the
shooting.
TIE HENNESSY TRIAL.
NEW YORK. March Is. - A Tribune's
(New Orleans) dispatch says; Facts are
gradually leaklns out about Saturdays
lynching and its causes that place the
tragedy in even a less eXeusable light than
at first. The jurors have nearly all solemnIy
declared that they received no bribes No
scrap of evidence Is produced to show that
these assertions are untrue. Not even
Mayor Shakespeare pretends that the
Hennessy case was peTplexed by
wholesale perjury. The country has
been told that the citizens arose TO vim
dicate outraged justice. 1t has not been
told That if the verdict was an outrage it
was merely the elimination OF q series of
abuses that should have been checked be-
fore crime became the only remedy. Judge
Baker, who presided at the HennesSy trial.
is described as perfect Judge, and there is
not whisper against his upiightneSs and
integrity. Three important omissions from
the States testimony more than explain the
verdict Alter the Chief was shot he lived
for nearly twelve hours and spoke with
many friends. He had met the assassins
face TO face, but not word that he uttered
before his death was brought out in the trial.
TESTIMONY WITHHELD.
Neither Officers Connors nor Roe, who
were with him, were placed on the stand.
Why? Because, il is said, State argues that
police testimony shall be excluded. The
whole case hinged ON the identity of the
man who hired the Peterson shanty, where
the murdcrers met. This man is supposed
to have been Macheca. He gave the name
OF Peter johnson, and Mrs Peterson's re-
ceipt, made out to Peter johnson, was found
in the pocketbook OF Manasterio, the cob
bier, who was put in possession \ ct Mrs.
Peterson was never produced at the trial.
Ghe defense evidently knew the real Peter
Johnson, for they explained the failure to
subpoena Mrs. Peterson with the fiimSlest
preteXt. But if johnson was not Macheca
then there was no conspiracy. In spite Of
Italian cyedulity there are sensible men
here who viii tell you that there is
no proofs that any Malta exists, save the
family vendetta of the ProvenZanos and
the locIl feuds of the men from Palermo
aud Messna. The police did nothing after
the first few weeks to unearth the true cul-
prit and trace the antecedents OF those in
custody, although opportunity stared them
in the face.
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES.
LONDON, March 1s.-The Times in an
editorial on the New Orleans tragedy says:
1t Is all very well to reprobate a resort to
violence, but in such circumS tances as
these what way is there for emdncipating a
community from intulerable tyranny except
by resort to violence? The law requires
trial by jury, and trial by jury has been re-
ducpd to a farce by the knowledge pos
sesSed by every iurymaD that if lie convicts
member OF the Malta his life is not worth
a weeks purchase. 1t is really misuse of
language to speak of resort to violence.
The standing rule in New Orleans is the
rule of violence and all Parkerson aud his
followers have done is to accept the con-
dtions prescribed by .he Malta. All
rests ultimately upon force, and when
the courts are dominated by criminals
whom they exist to punish, nothing re-
maus but to go back to first principles
to effect theft de;iverance Let law
less violence be abandoned ry all means,
but "que Mrssieur5, les sssassins, COM
mencent." Among the men who were
lynched there may have been some who did
not actually fire at Hennessy, but it is not
pretended that there were any who We're not
members Of the detestable society that de-
sired his death. That being the cas-, it is
impossible to feel any very acute distress
because in the midst of the violence they
had rendered Indispensable they have been
somewhat mOce severely punished than If
they had been ieniputlv dealt with