Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-16
EXCLUDE THEM.
A Sure Way Of Annihilating
the Dreaded Malta.
Report of the New Orleans Commit
tee Of Fifty.
Intellectual Attempt to Poison
Consul Corte
BY SOME OF THE VICTIMS OF THE
lNFURlATEO MOB.

BY SOME OF THE VICTIMS OF THE
INFURlATED MOB.
The Committee Recommends the Regula-
tion of immigration, Reform Both i'm
the Criminal Laws aud the Admini5t ira
ton of Criminal Justice, and Law
Recognizing the Existence and Right 81
Bar Association-C Consul COrte Denies
Certain Statements He is Alleged to
Have Made.
NEW ORLEANS, May 16.-On the 18th
of October last under q resolution Of
the city council, the mayor was request
ed to appoint a committee of fifty or
more citizens to thoroughly investigate
the matter Of the existence of secret So
cieties or bands of oath-bound assassins
which it was openly charged had life i'll
! our midst, and had eliminated in the as
sassination Of the highest executive of
ficer of the police department, and to de-
! wise necessary means and the most
| etfectual and speedy measures for the
uprooting and total annihilation Of such
hell-born assassins, and also suggest
needful remedies to prevent the intro
| ductiOn here Of criminals or paupers
from Europe. The mayor appointed this
committee, known as the "Citizen's
| Committee
Synopsis of the Report.
The committee Thursday submitted its
final report Of which the following is a
| synopsis:
THE first work Of the committee was
to obtain from the chief of police a re-
port OF niuety-four assassinations by
Italians and Sicilians, and where the ac-
cused escaped for want of evidence,
Then followed the assassination of the
chief Of police. The result of the trial
which followed demonstrated to the
people that no one was safe from the
mysterious hand that had Piled itself,
and was operating outside Of and re-
gardless of the law. 1t was only when
this fem' grew into absolute conviction
that the people themselves rose in their
might and took the law into their own
hands, and then followed the event Of
the l4th Of March.
"With the occurrences of that day in
the parish prison the committee had no
connection. and of the contemplated
vengence Of an outraged people they had
no knowledge. The acts Of that day
were the inevitable outcome Of the eX-
isting conditions as detailed above, ana
have been approved by this community
and the entire country
Proof of The Existence of the Malta.
The report then. at considerable
f, ,l, hn pN-lEt
here of the dafia (which for years had
te1rorized the Italian population of this
CITY. levying tribute at pleasure, under
penalty of death if refused. A sub-com-
mittee called upon the Italian consul and
assured him that the purpose of that
body was to legally rid the community
of criminals, and give greater security to
life and property to all its citizens, Of
whatsoever nationality. The consul
stated that he was satisfied of this, was
ready to cooperate with uS to this end,
and he would Immediately prepare and
send up report containing all the in
formation in his possession, He stated
that he was convinced Of the existence
of the Malta in this city, and brought
out the registration papers of Bagnetto,
and pointed out the imprint of Ii
seal, which he informed us was the seal
of the Malta. Hesaid he had strong suspi-
cions which amounted to conviction in
his mind, as to who were the leaders of
the society in this city, ard he furnished
the committee with til" names, He
stated that prior to the Hemessy aSsass-
nation he had in some way unconscious
lv incurred the pleasure OF q COterie,
composed principally of the men who
met tlrir death at thp Parish prison on