The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-17
IT1LLAN CUTTHRO4TS.

The tragedy encted at New Orleans
last Saturday was the natural outcome
of the reign of murderous outlawry that
has so long infested the city at the
mouth of the Mississippi. On the 10Th
of last October Chief OF Police Hennessy
was shot to pieces near the threshold of
his own home. The crime was directly
traced to secret band of murderous
Italian cut-throats, known as the Malta.
The Malta, was originally an Italian
political society which inculcated the
duty of getting rid of Objectionable per-
sons by assassination. Driven from its
native home i'll the south of Italy, by
the vigor of the Italian government, it
formed domicile in land that all too
readily opens her gates to receive class
of persons who leave their country for
their country's good. Chief Hennessy
had simply done his duty. He had
pried into the secret workings of these
professional assassins, and for this he
must die. From the moment of his
death evidence began to accumulate that
it was the infamous work of the Malta.
A number of men were arrested and
placed on trial. The trial lasted twenty
five days. The crime was proved home
to the conspirators, but there was the
fullest evidence that the jury had been
tampered with and justice failed. Five
weary months had passed from the time
of the murder. The citizens had endur-
ed the delay with sullen impatience
but the day of vengence came and
thousands of the formest men of New
Orleans rose up as one man, last Satur-
day, broke into the Jail where the men
were still confined and filled eleven of
these Italian cutthroats full of good
American lead.
It was the only remedy for a disease
SO violent. The courts that had been
established to protect the people and
avenge bLoken law had failed. The
trial was Il travesty of justice. One OF
two things remained. The foreign cut
throats must continue with accelerated
force to terrorize society, or society must
rise in its might and annihilate the
guilty among them. 1t as a remedy not
to be lightly used. 1t is never fitting
excepting as last extremity; but the
law of God is law of righteousness.
"Whose shedath man S blood by man
shall his blood be shed, and the land
shall not be purged from blood except
by the blood of him that shed it, Sell
dom has Il similar piece of work been bet
sief' done. No man suffered the extreme
pen, atty who did not richly deserve it..
DepAo1 able as was the necessity that
demand, ed it, the deed will create a
healthier moral atmosphere. 1t will
teach.whaf foreign cutthroats are left,
that tIiiscoun, try is not big enough to
hold them an, l their murderous socie-
ties. Whatever n zen may think who are
removed from tn scene OF action
the avenging of IL blood OF Chief
Hennessv has met the, approval OF the
best men in New OrieafA Inc ootton
exchange has unanmousa. ehoorseo IL
by set of resolutions. The produce ex-
change the stock exchange anA tne SUI
gar exchange have similarly ae eproveo
it, while the stock exchange has gone
farther, and expelled from membersh> p
as one unfit to associate with them, tn
foreman of the jury whose corrupt /
d1cision made She terrible act of ven
gance necessary.