The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-15
A BLACK DAY IN NEW ORLEANS.
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up to the cross bars. Not satisfied that he was
dead, score of men took aim and poured
volley OF shot into his body and for several
hours the body was left dangling in the air.
Bagnetto was caught in the first rush up
stairs, and the first volley of bullets pierced hs
brain. He was pulled out by number of stall
wart men through the main entrance to the
prison, and from the limb of tree his body was
suspended, although life was already gone
WHEN THE BLOODY WORK WAS DONE
Mr.. Parkerson addressed the crowd and asked
them to disperse. This they consented to do
with ringing shout but first they made rush
for Parkerson, and, lifting him bodily, sup
ported him on their shoulders while they marched
up the street. The avengers came back in
body to the Clay Statue and then departed.
Immense crowds rushed from all directions to
the neighborhood Of the tragedy, while the
streets In front OF the newspaper offices were
blocked with people anxious to see the latest
bulletins
There was intense suppressed excitement but
from one end OF the city to the other the action
of the citizens was applauded
O'Malley, the detective, who would have
shared the fate of the assassins IL he had been
caught has disappeared and is not expected to
return, and members of the jury are in hid
ing. The atmosphere has been considerably
purged, and, though there is big crowd on
Canal street tonight, the trouble seems all
over
The Italian Consul declined to say tonight
what action, if any, he will take.
The prison was surrounded until dark with
a motley multitude, but the police found no
difficulty in maintaining good order.
The bodies of some of the slain were removed
this evening. Caruso was married but
leaves no children. Romero has wife and
children, and Macheca, a wife and family
Comitez leaves a wife.
The Stock Exchange met to-day and discussed
the action of Foreman Seiigman of the Hennes-
sey jury. AS result of the discussion Seligman
was expelled for having by his action as Juror
in the Hennessey case evidently contributed to
defy justice, ignore the laws and scandalize
the community Seligman has also been expelled
from the Young Mems Gymnastic Club.
DEPLoRABLE BUT JUsTIFIABLE
A meeting of the Cotton Exchange was called
to order at 1:30 o'clock P. NJ by President Chat
fee, who stated that he had been called upon bv
a large committee of members with the request
that he convene the institution in general meet
ing for the purpose of adopting suitable reso-
luton indorsing the action of the citizens of
New Orleans in the deplorable event of the
morning. Mr.. Chaffee said that inasmuch as all
were familiar with the events it was not neces-
sary to diiate upon them. They knew the facts,
and they knew the necessity of the situation
He then caused the following preamble and res
olution to be read by the secretary:
Whereas the deplorable administration of
criminal justice IN this city, ana the frightful
extent to which the bribery of juries has been
of New Orleans to vindicate outraged Justice.
Re 1t resolved. That, while we deplore at all
action taken by the citizens to be proper and
justihable.
On motion of Mr.. Lapeyre, seconded by Mr.
Emmett, the preamble and resolution were
unanimously adopted.
Resolutions of similar purport were also
adopted by the Board of Trade, produce Ex-
change,) the Sugar Exchange, and the Stock
Exchange.
CAUSE OF THE TRAGEDY.
New ORLEANS, March 14.-The following is
given as clear statement of the actuating cause
which led to the tragedy enacted this morning,
ascertained from interviews with a number of
prominent citizens, some of them active partici-
pants in the stirring events of to-day:
On October Is, 1890. about II o'clock at night,
D. c. Hennessy. Chief of Police OF the city of
New Orleans, going from his office to his home,
was waylaid and shot to pieces by band of
Italian assassins, armed with such blum
derbusses as could only have been made
and used for the purpose of as
sasslnation. The Indignation and excitement
were such that mob law and lynching were
about to be resorted to. The entire community
felt that in the endeavor to reach the guilty
parties, innocent Italians might be sacrificed
To allay excitement and to assist the constituted
authorities, the mayor of the city appointed a
committee of fifty representative citizens
to take charge of the investigations of
and to aid in the trial and conviction of
the aSsasslnS. This measure arrested
violence. The committee entered upon it's
work and at mass meeting subsequently held
In front of the City Hall the actions of the COM
mittee were ratified and they were encouraged
to continue their labors TO secure the prosecu-
tion and trial by the courts After months of
preparations and trial which continued three
weeks, and in which distinguished counsel as
sisted the able district attorney, jury, charged
TO have been bribed and corrupted in the face
Of testimony establishing their guilt. rendered
verdict of mistrial as to three assassins, Scot
fedi, Monastrio, and Politz, and acquitted the
three assassins, Macheca, Marchesi, and Bag
netto. Three more were on trial and were ac-
quilted because of insufficient evidence, these
being Matranga, Incordona, and the boy
Marchesi The acquittal of Macheca, the
chief consprator, and of Marches and Bag
netto and the mistrial as to Polit2 Scoffedi,
and Monasterio fell like thunderbolt upon
the community and impressed law-abiding
citizens with the conviction that the law had
nation and the engrafting of the Italian Malta
upon American institutions. The feeling grew
strong that for self preservation the people
must assume the authority which they had
delegated to the courts, and which the
courts We're powerless to enforce. This
feeling increased until it found vent in the
mass meeting this morning at 10 o'clock.
This uprising of the people to Gecure the
punishments Of the assassins who struck
with premeditated assassination, was orderly
and the people dispersed quietly as soon as their
work OF yindication was done.
HISTORY REPEATED.
To-day's troubles recall "reminiscences of
prior crusade against Sicilians. In 1856 there
was siciiian political club in existence here,