Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-19

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business and homes. The whole thing
was over inside of one hour.
The cotton, produce, sugar and stock
exchanges the afternoon adopted reso-
lutions ndorsing the action of the
avengers.
CALM FOLLOWS THE STORM.
New ORLEANS, March 15.--A Sab
bath quiet rested over the city to-day,
but public spirit is still heated over re-
cent occurrences. The action of the
vigilants meets with the approval of all
and public sentiment is concisely voiced
in the following editorial published this
morning in one of the leading news
papers of the city:
"The work was rapid and comprehen-
sive, the guilty were killed, the innocent
were spared, the aroused citizens did not
allow their passions to lead them fur
Their. II was the Inauguration of no
race war. II was the just punishment
of criminals. This done the people hur-
ried back to their usual avocations and
the sun went down upon peaceful
city, and what has been done meets the
approval Of all law-abiding citizens.
The verdict of the country cannot be
otherwise. The result is not doubtful.
| j he storm has cleared away the atmos-
phere of the criminal court. The hand
of the assassin has been stayed. The
Malta is a thing of the past. The blood
which has been shed will save many
lives in the future, and the 18th Of
March will be memorable in the annals
of our state"
LOOKING AFTER THE JURyMEN.
Jacob M. Seligman, foreman of the
jury, has fled to Cincinnati. He was
terribly frightened yesterday afternoon
when he was arrested to save his
life from an Infatuated assemblage
| Of citizens As no charge had
been preferred against him he was
released later, and guarded by several
friends boarded the Queen & Crescent
train in the evening and left the city.
The six jurors who are known to have
stood out for an acquittal of all the
ltaliansdo not dare to leave their homes
and the Others are more or less ostra-
cised by the community.
The grand jury will investigate their
conduct tomorrow or Tuesday.
Foreman Seligman is known to have
gone upon the jury with considerable
sum of money in his possession. His
methods of communication with the
outside have not yet been disclosed, but
they We're not especially necessary. 1t
is openly charged that Seligman, Bolzen
and Donegan were fixed before they
went into the jury room. Most of the
other jurors were mere boys, persons
without standing in the community or
men easily led. Tronchet, Berry and
Mackesy and others, who are believed
to have been honest, had no interests at
stake and allowed themselves to be
swayed by the positive stand of the
others, but stopped at the proposition to
liberate all the accused.
HUNTING FOR o'MALLEY.
ID. @. O'Malley, the private detective
who fixed the jurors, is now being
tracked. He has been in hiding since
yesterday morning and his exact loca-
ton is not known. The vigilance com
mittee have pledged themselves to rid
the town of O'Malley, and if he remains
he will certainly be lynched. He was
last seen at 10 o'clock last night in his
office in consultation with his partner,
Lionel Adams, ex-district attorney and
leading counsel for the defence in the
case.
If he is captured and hanged the work
will be done openly in daylight and by
the same men who led yesterdays up
rising. 1t is thought to be the policy of
the committee to first give him chance
to leave the city. Some action will
probably be taken tomorrow.
The officers OF the prison complain
about the criticism of their conduct in
permitting the prison to be taken with
out more resistance. They say they did
all they could. They locked and barred
the gates and refused to give up the
keys when demanded. When the
lynchers forced an entrance the keepers
refused all information as to where the
Italians were. Other prisoners gave the
secret of where the men searched for
had been hidden. Had the sheriff fired
upon the attacking party there would
have been slaughter of many innocent
people including assailants; sheriff and
prisoners.
BLAINE TAKES ACTION.
WASHINGTON, March 15.-Speculation
is rife in official circles as to what will
be the outcome of the lynching of the
Italians at New Orleans on Saturday.
Secretary Blaine's attention has been
called to the matter by Baron Fava, the
italian minister, and he at once sent the
following telegram to Governor Nichols
of Louisiana
1t has been represented to the President
by the minister of Italy, accredited to this
government, that among the victims of
the deplorable massacre which took place
in the city of New Orleans yesterday were
three or more subjects of the King Of italy.
Our treaty with that friendly government,
which under the constitution is the SUI
prcme law of the land, guarantees to the
Italian subjects domiciled in the United
States, "the most constant protection and
security for their persons and property
making them amenable on the same basis
as our own citizens to the laws of the
United States and the several states in their
due and ordinary administration.
The President deeply regrets that the
citizens of New Orleans should have so
disparaged the purity and adequacy of
their own judicial tribunals as to transfer
to the passionate Judgment of a mob
question that should have been adiudged
dispassionately and by settled rules of law
The government of the United States must
give to the subjects of friendly powers that
security which it demands for our own
citizens when temporarily under a foreign
jurisdiction. 1t is the hope OF the Presi-
dent that you will cooperate with him IN
maintaining the obligations of the United |
States toward Italian subjects who may be
within the perls of the present excitement
that further bloodshed and violence may
be prevented, and that all offenders against |
the law may be promptly brought to
justice.
Neither Baron Fava or Secretary
Blaine will express any opinion, and |
Baron FaYa peremptorily refuses to talk |
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