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Show - . : duffy, THE AVENGER. tie Goes to the Prison and Shoots One of the Hennessy Suspects. Kew Orleans, La., Oct. 18. Tom Duffy, a cousin of the prizefighter, who bas been in the habit of going to the parish prison to see a friend incarcerated incarcera-ted there for misdemeanor, went there yesterday and asked to see Antonio Scoffide, one of the assassins of Chief of Police Hennessy, ostensibly for the purpose, of identifying him. When the prisoner appeared Duffy pulled out a pistol and shot him, inflicting a fatal wound. . Duffy was immediately arrested. He said to the officers that if the Italian died he was willing to hang. He only wished there were about seventy-five more like himself to do similar deeds, the wounded Italian was taken to the hospital, where he asserted that he has always been a friend of Chief Hennessy. He cannot live. More than fifty arrests have been made of parties believed to be implicated impli-cated in the assassination of Hennessy, and yesterday another Italian, Pedro Natal, was identified as one of the men seen running away from the scene of the murder. |