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Show THE VERDICT CAUSES INDIGNATION. The Alleged Aaiaulna of Chief of Police Hennea7 Go Free. Nkw Orleans, March 14. The trial of the nine Sicilians for the assassination assassina-tion of Chief of Police Hennessy last October, was concluded yesterday afternoon, after-noon, the jury bringing in a verdict of not guilty as to six of the accused, Macheca, the two Marchesis, Bagnotta, Inneardoa and Matranga, and failed to agree upon a verdict as to the other three, Pohte, Monastero and Scaffedi. As the verdict was read there was an audible expression of surprise and dissatisfaction. dis-satisfaction. The deputies, however, immediately suppressed the noise, and then Judge Baker ordered the jury to bo discharged and the prisoners remanded, re-manded, as thero was still another charge against them in connection with the case. When the jurymen reached the street they wero hooted at by the crowd. Indignation over the verdict is general. gen-eral. There is another indictment against the accused, but it is for a lesser ofl'ens; and as it concerns the same transaction the district attorney will have to enter a nolle prosequiem. |