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TIsDecleritsl-|Lynch Law in Newe most terrible tragedy in the anpnanfiilMb m J jdge w“ performed | Lilast Sat*. da? when * New Orleansmob nnmbe rIng ?ver 2000nathe city jail at d 8h°t or hanged to deatheleven ha\w* of complicity Iin the murder ©fC. hie* of Police David Hennessey lire won * he ago. €Nine of »be Tirtimfc' bad leen tried £nlt; for the CTi»ey the jury rendering itsunon the previous ^a7» acquit- nu];ing six and disagreeing in case of fQrthree. It was believed, an 4 apPa- fl0i _____ good cause, that tL ’e JUIT delhad been bribed by the defenst a.nd knlt;that it was useless to expect jut ^ce ariifrom the legal authorities. Hence t* Sarrecourse to mob law and the Wood) thrlt; eoxeeopienees. The result was fore- Ha; seem when a Committee of Fifty metimmediately after the verdict was ren dered and summoned the citizens tcassemble next morning at the ClayStatue and “come prepared for actioo.”The slain Italians belonged to a secret society called ‘La Mafia.’ whichis said to have its origin and headquarters in Sicily, and branches in early every large American city.assassination for private vengeancei, | is charged against La Mafia, but so oner as its victims were only Italian.s | me ixew c/rieaus auiuunun remainedif I culpably indifferent—all save one, is the honest and courageous Chief ofSeymour and Blair campaign of 18(8o he organized and commanded a com-behind•few*p^rcai.iAordeas itTcMlovskFerdSuewCzesPrJamA]arcbCzeslor ‘i- Police Hennessey. He determined to th£At'do his duty aud root out the secret j)ulir- assassins. He was warned that his andd I life would be the forfeit, hut that did Vlt; not appall or deter him. He was brutal- | Sr.JIV murdered, almost on his own door-CarciSr. Jlt;1 step, at midnight on Oct. 15th, last. Comst j Wnn dying he was able to^speak but uiot onfc word in answer to the question, 9rJwho had shot him—“Dagos.” | efl,PSeveral “Dagos,” or Italians, wereare?, accordingly arrested, among them a stst h I rich merchant, Joseph Maeheca, who in re is said to have been at the head of the Jobsconspiracy. The following sketch of fehl* * * * 1.. . * ind his career is interesting in oonection j^arwith the late massacre, of which he Mar;r- was one of the leading victims:— in rd He was worth some hundreds of -}Ia£t, I thousands of dollars, and was a pleas- I JJa*j te ant-mannered, popular gentleman.— ^jura He has always taken an active inter- ticaf- est in Democratic polities. Iu the gionpany of Sicilians 150 strong, known e j as the Innocents. Their uniform was »- a white cape, hearing a Maltese cross ^ n on the left shoulder. They wore sido ancil- arms, and when they marched, shot vatilt;- every negro that came in sight. They legoh left a trail of a dozen dead negroes glevoteB Steedman, managing the campaign sonn L I here at the time, finally forbade them affai i- j making further parades, and they thee disbanded.” at leOrleans nanere which have of oirevived the above episode, now that new \ I Macheca is dead, would be entitled to atta5- more respect had they called for his j andleaving his elennegroes’behind him twen- knoi-1 ty years ago. Louisiana, rather than I thatthe bloody work nati:f last Saturday. A reckless disre- dree gard of the sanctity of human life telli where only “niggers ” and “Dagos”are | reflc 11 I concerned, does not tend to thsonsq couragment of honest courts and juries; woand when these fail, enter Judge cans Lynch and the reign of terror. anyr- I Another lesson, which our Italian | A fellow-citzens should take to heart is.hassecret societies, of whatever kind, to bare good things to avoid. They have daujno iust reason for existence, here or | sheelsewhere. There is good ground for Shereligl- | indignation at the awful slaughter ofItalians by the New Orleans lynchers; J inal but it was the natural if not legitimate I morfruits of the lawless conduct of the I streir J Mafia Society. Let law-abiding Ital-1 but ians, who are the overwhelming ma- fectihere and at home, frown down the lt;jonty here and at home, irown the secret society and its dark ways; I her and nobody, not even in misgoverned I self New Orleans, will dare talk of lynch for I law or extenuate the deeds of the andVigilantes.—Pilot, I selfavcM16T. PAUL, MINN. | wonlegifIn St. Paul yesterday it was the I on texception to find the person who was of tl not “Wearing of the Green.” Bits 1 olicofgreen ribbon, shamrock, green neck-1 nifi«vsrliAM 1 n.#Afn 1 A TVC ft Tl V - • —
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American Catholic Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Apr 04, 1891
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