| Show A TRULY GOOD MAN orte the Italian Consul at i New Orleans Ii I i SAVED TH MAYORS LIFE And Parkinsons and Others so He Says He Restrained His CountrymenThe Itata not Captured NEW ORLEANS May 13In an interview with a reporter today the Italian consul Corte said referring to tho remarks of tho mayor and grand jury Let me tell you that I have saved Mayor Shakespeares life and I have done the same service to Parkerson and Wickliffe and other leaders The day after the killing there was a determined absolute almost uncontrollable uncontrol-lable determination among certain of my i countrymen to kill the mayor and all those who had a hand in tho butchery but I restrained their hands I controlled the furious men I told them to beware be-ware I said i any harm befell these gentlemen I would immediately and unreservedly denounce the perpetrators of the deed This firm stand checked them and I succeeded in holding them with the promise that I would do everything in my power to obtain justice redress and satisfaction satis-faction in a proper and legitimate manner by arbitration and other diplomatic measures meas-ures between the two governments Corte insisted ho had conclusive evidence that among the killed were several Italian subjects and they could prove an alibi as clear as daylight to exculpate them from Hennessey murder Speaking about the return of his letter by the grand jury Corte sasd Could I expect any more from a grand jury whose chairman as president of the Cotton exchange endorsed the killing 2 The Itata Is Not a Pirate WASHINGTON May IBThero is no longer a tenable claim that the Itata maybe may-be seized as a pirate I is recognized she can be recaptured for violation of the customs cus-toms laws disregard of the court and perhaps per-haps for kidnaping but any assumption that she is a pirate is completely negatived by the doctrine laid down by the late Francis Wharton formerly solicitor of the department of state and an eminent authority author-ity on international law This doctrine was accepted by Secretary Bayard and laid down at the time of the Colombian rebellion rebel-lion and Panama trouble The Colombian government had declared insurgent vessels to be pirates as the Chilian government has done but the secretary held The government govern-ment of the United States cannot regard as piratical vessels manned by parties in arms against the government of Colombia when such vessels passing to and fro are held by such insurgents or when attacking ports in possession of the national government In the late civil ware the United States at an early period of the struggle surrendered the position that those manning confederate cruisers were pirates under international law Th United Statds of Colombia cannot sooner or later do otherwise than accept tho same views But however this may be no neutral neu-tral power can acquiesce in the position now taken by the Colombian government Another fact which may be of interest in view of the expected arrival of the Itai at a Mexican portprobably Acapulco that she cannot stay there Under the practices of international law the Mexican government could not refuse to protect her but she could not remain in port more than twentyfour hours as to do so would subject sub-ject her to the charge of using the port asa as-a base of operations against a friendly gov ernment So if the vessel reaches Acapulco Aca-pulco before tho Charleston the latter vessel would have simply to wait outside the port for twentyfour hours to get an opportunity to retake the Itata and her I stores providing these have not in the meantime been transferred to the Esmer alda |
