The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-03-21
ADEATH-BlOW TO THE MALTA
New Orleans Wreaks a Terrible Ven
geance Upon the Sicilian Assas-
sins Of Chief Hennes-
sey.
eleven DEAD MEN TELL THE TALE.
1t Was The Greatest Criminal Trial
The City Ever Witnessed and
its Results the Most In
satisfactory.
eleven DEAD MEN TELL The TALE.
The Citizens Had to Take the Law
Into Their Own Hands in Or
der to Secure Justice.

leans struck the Malta a death-blow to-
day. 1t rose in its might almost at mid.
day and wreaked a terrible vengeance
upon the Sicilian assassins, who relent-
lessly slew David C. Hennessy, and
though there are eleven men dead to-
night who were happy yesterday over
their victory in the greatest criminal trial
the city ever witnessed, the work of blood
was accomplished without rloting, with
out pillaging, and without the inhiction
of suffering upon any innocent man save
one, and he was only slightly hurt. 1t
vas not an unruly midnight mob. 1t
was simply a sullen and determined body
of citizens who took intOtheir own hands
what justice had ANONYMOUSLY failed
to do. The chief of police
was slain Oct. ID. and that
very night evidence began to &C
cumulate, showing death to have been
deliberately planned by a secret tribunal
and carried out boldly and successfully
by the tools of the conspirators. The trial
lasted twenty-five days and though the
evidence seemed conclusive, the jury,
currently charged with having been
tempered with, failed to convict.
Last night a body of cool headed men,
lawyers, doctors, merchants and political
leaders, all persons of influence and
social standing, quietly met and decided
that some action should be taken, and the
peoples justice, swift and sure, was
visited upon those whom the jury had
neglected to punish. This morning the
call for a mass meeting at the Clay
square on Canal street appeared in the
papers, which editOrially deprecated
violence. The significant closing sentence
of the call was, "COme prepared for
action"
Down in a large room on Bienville and
Royal there was the arsenel which had
been provided by the citizens. The call
was answered by the pOrulace. At 10
o clock several thousand anxious people
had congregated around the statue. A
large proportion were the leading people
of the town. There were three address
es, short and pithy and business like, and
the assemblage, not unwillingly, was soon
keyed up to the high pitch demonstrative
in its Remuneration of the assassins. Each
of the speakers said there had been a
great mass meeting months before which
had met quietly and dipersed peacefully,
so that the law might take its course.
The law had failed. The time to act had
come. After %denouncing Detective
O'Malley, who is supposed to have tam
pered with the jury, the speakers an
nounced that they would lead the way to
the parish prison. Before any one could
realize what had happened, the great
throng, gaining recruits at every street,
was tramping down the streets to the
neighbor hood of the prison stopping only
once and that was at the arsenal, where
double barreled shot guns, Winchester
rifles and pistols were handed out to the
responsible and respectable citizens in
the party. The starting of the crowd
had an electric effect on the city. soon
the streets were alive with people, run
ming from all directions and Joining the
main body, which moved sullenly down
the rampant to the jail near Congo square.
When the main body from the canal
reached the prison which is MANY souares