Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-03-20
THE PEOPLE AROUSED.
Citizens OF New Orleans Incensed
at the Outcome OF the Hennes-
sey Murder Trial
venge on the Alleged Murderers
ofthe Brave Chief of Police.
Nine Italians, Members OF the In
famous Malta" Put 20 Death
An Unprecedented Uprising.

New ORLEANS, La. March lS.-A scene
unprecedented in the annals Of history in
many of its features was enacted here last
Saturday.
The scenes at and about Clay statue in
New Orleans Saturday morning brought 10
mind very forcibly and violently the pecu-
liar and ominious uprising of that Septem-
Der day sixteen years ago. Ten o'clock
had not yet struck and vast multitude
was already congregated on Canal street,
almost filling up the large space from curb
TO curb on each side Of the boulevard. Just
on the stroke of ten o'clock "A shout went
up from the people stationed at st. Charles
street. and number Of gentlemen, among
whom were w. =. ParkersOn, John &.
Wickliffe and others who signed the call,
came marching along and began walking
round and round the range OF Clay monu-
ment. After speeches by Patterson and
Wickliffe, the crowd, about 1000 strong,
started for the parish prison, which they
reached at 1920 o'clock. After slight re-
sistance the Jail was surrendered, the cti-
zens rushed in and killed eleven of the nine
teen who had been indicted for the assassin
alton of Chief Hennessy, as follows: Man
uel Poletz, PietrO Monastro, Antonio Scat
fedi, Joseph u. Macheca, Antonio Marchesi,
Antonio Bagnetto, Frank Romero, Jim
Caruso, Rocco Gerachi, Charles Trahine,
Comitez. After the assassins had been put
to death, Mr.. Parkerson addressed the
crowd, urging them 10 return to their
homes or respective places of business with
out further demonstration. Joe Macheca
had a pistol and shot Sergt Heron in the
neck, inficting a slight wound. Poletz
was hanged to a lamp-post at Irene and
Stan streets Bagnetto TO tree in front of
the prison. The others were shot in the
cells. When the citizens committee had
completed the work at the parish prison it
dishanded for the day.
The killing of the Italians in New
Orleans has aroused much Indignation
among the Italian residents of all the large
cities in the United States, and the state
department at Washington has received
many messages demanding reparation and
justice for the injury done. Secretary
Blaine has sent a telegram 10 Francis I.
Nichols, governor of Louisiana containing
the following words: ''Th6 President deeply
regrets that the citizens of New Orleans
should have so disparaged the purity and
adequacy Of their own jud icial tribunals as
TO transfer TO the passionate judgement OF
a mob question that should have been
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rules Of law. The government of the
United States must give TO the subjects of
friendly powers that security which it
It demands for its own citizens when
temporarily under a foreign jurisdiction.
1t is the hope of the President that
you will cooperate with him in maintain
ing the obligations of the United States
toward Italian subjects who may be within
the perils 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"
A dispatch from Rome says: The Ital-
ian government has instructed Baron de
Fava, the Italian minister at Washington,
TO present a vehement protest to the
United States government against the
action Of the mob in New Orleans Satur-
day, and the United States government
has promised to make an investigation.