The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-03-21
CORRUPTION.
Evidence Being Gathered to Con-
Wet the Malta Jury.
THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE At WORK.
Detective O'MaIley Accused and Likely to
Suffer-ApoiOgles of Local Officials-The
News at Rome EScItes the People
Nothing For the Fair.

New ORLEANS, March lG.-The Wig
Hance committee is known to be still at
work and it is said that to-day will be
Detective O'Malley's day of reckoning.
The jury will also be attended to, but
probably through the courts, as it is
proposed to obtain the evidence in the
cas- of those who were bribed. One of
the jurors is said to have confessed al
ready and the state had evidence
against several before the verdict was
announced.
The grand jury will indict one juror
Tuesday and more will follow. Fore
lar j. M. Seligman has taken time by
the forelock and gone to Cincinnati.
The prison officials are somewhat in
censed over the censure at their failure
TO make n more formidable defense.
They say they didNnot give up the keys
and that when the crowd broke in all
the officers were found at their posts.
Had they fired Mt the crowd 1t would
have caused the storming and perhaps
destruction of the prison and the sacri-
flee of many innocent lives within and
outside the Jail.
Superintendent Caster was asked
what steps he intended to take in the
matter, and said that he could not ar
rest the community.
Gov. Nichols said that the Italian
consul had called on him at his Office
and that he had asked interference and
protection for Italian subjects in the
parish prison, who were threatened
with mob violence. The matter had
not been called officially to the govern
or's attention, and, besides, a call for
the militia would have to come through
the mayor of the city. No such demand
had been made. When the consul called
on the governor the crowd had already
started toward the parish prison.
Mayor Shakespeare said that his aid
had not been invoked, and when he
reached his office it was all over, and he
had not asked aid Of the governor.
At New Orleans 1t is now estimated
that between $3.50 600 and 800, 600 was
raised to secure the acquittal of the
eleven men who were SO quickly dealt
with when they had been acquitted and
1t is certain that so large a sum could
not have been raised in that city alone,
though all the Italians in the city are
said to have been taxed, the taxation
extending even to the lowest laborers,
who were assessed 81 each.
The money could not have all been
raised by the Italians of New Orleans
though, jealous as they have been in
behalf of the assassins. Inquiries in
other cities reveal that each furnished
its share. Perhaps the heaviest assist
ance came from Philadelphia.
THE FEELING IN ITALY.
ROME, March 16.-The news of the
killings at New Orleans did not become
generally known in the city until yester-
day morning. 1t created a profound
sensation and the general feeling is one
of the utmost indignation and thirst for
reprisal in some form. An English Wis.,
itor, who was mistaken for an Amer
mobbed.
1t is expected that the subject will be
brought up in the chamber of deputies.
In the talk in the streets and in public
places strong protests were uttered
against any representation of Italy at
the coming American exhibition.
Count Rapponi, of the Italian lega-
ton in Paris, expressed himself In very
terms on what he called the
cruel massacre of his countrymen. He
said Italy could not afford to let such
an outrage on humanity go without re-
dress and that it was a stain on the
name of the American people that
could never be effaced. He added that
in his personal opinion it ended all
prospect of Italy taking part in the Chi
cago exhibition. The count was very
excited. He also said that he had no
doubt that If the men had been guilty
they would have been convicted, as the
fury would not have dared to acquit
them.
The Reforma denounces the New Or
leans lynching as an outrage and says
1t Is a disgrace to the United States that
such acts are possible within its border.
Signor Breganzo will interpellate the
government In parliament regarding
the affair.