Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-19
SICILIAN ASSASSINS SHOT
Eleven of the Cowardly Murderers of
New Orleans ChiefOf Police
Killed.
Vengeance Wracked Upon Them by
Large Body of Respectable
Citizens.
The Public Fully Endorse he Deed
No Prosecutions Will
EnSue.

NEW ORLEANS, La, March 1.-THE
trial of the nine Sicilians for the assassin
alton of Chief Of Police D. G. Hennessy,
On the night of Oct. IS, which has occu-
pied the time of the court since Feb. Is,
was concluded yesterday afternoon, the
jury bringing In verdict of not guilty as
to six of the accused and failed to agree
upon a verdict as to the other three.
Ten o'clock mad not yet struck this
morning when a vast multitude had con-
gregated On Canal street about the Clay
statue. almost filing up the large space
from curb to curb, on each side of the
boulevard. Soon number of gentlemen,
among whom were W. S. Parkerson and
John c. Wicklef and others, who signed
the call for the meeting, came up. They
were greeted with cheess. Mr.. Parkerson,
who spoke first, said that once before be
had appeared before the people in grand
mass meeting assembled to discuss matters
of vital interest to the community, and
again he faced the people of New Orleans
to denounce the infamous act consequent
upon the most revolving crime in the
criminal annals of any community. That
act was the finding of the jury in the
murder trial yesterday, and that crime
was as everybody knows, the foul assassin
alton of Chief Hennessy.
After the speeches to the indignant
crowd about 1000 started for the prison
which they reached at 30 After a slight
resistance the jailor surrendered to the
citizens who rushed in and killed eleven
of the nineteen men indicted for the assas-
sination of Chief Hennessy. Their names
are as follows:
MANUEL POLIETZ.
PIETRO MoNAsTRo.
ANTONIO SCAFFEDE.
JOSEPH P. MAcHEcA.
ANTONIO BAGNATTo.
ANTONIO MARCHIs1.
FRANK Romero.
JIM CARUsE.
Rocco GERACHI
CHARLES TRAHINE.
r. CoMITEz.
After the assassins were put to death
Mr.. Parkerson addressed the crowd urg-
ing them to return to their homes an
places of business without further demon
stration.
Joe Macheca had pistol and shot Ser
geant Heron III the neck, inhicting only
slight wound. Pelietz was hanged to a
lampost ON Theme street and Bagnatto to
q tree in front of the prison. The others
were shot in their cells.
When the citizens committee completed
its work at the parish prison, it quietly
disbanded. A meeting was held tonight
to consider what further action, if any,
should be taken The committee is COM
posed of the better class Of citizens, and the
business men are satisfied that the safety
of the community demanded the vigorous
action. The public endorses the act of the
mob.
The bloody tragedy is the outgrowth of
the murder of Chief Of Police Hennessy
Oct. Is. There is secret society of
Italians here, known as the Malta, which
in years past have freely resorted to ass
assination to put obnoxious characters out
of toe way. Hennessy was determined to
break it up, and had gathered large
amount of damaging evidence. The Malta
then resolved to put HIM out of the way,
and he was deliberately shot to death by
gang which had been deputized by
the society to perform the deed. The &C
quittal of the murderers, by jury OF
towards or bride takers, was too much fo1
Anglo Saxon manhood to stand, hence the
summary shooting of the miserable
wretches.
The avengers will not be prosecuted.