| Show NEW LIGHT ON THE LYNCHING tip tf the lynching lunching lyn ching in new orleans was not bot murder then it was simply a proton of transfer to a better sphere masses manes and rosaries for the dead men hae been chanted and it is hoped they are now in a position to thank heir re movers F for the change murder to Is a coarse uncouth word teem oVal would have been a more dell deli kate cute term when the clan na bael af chicago murdered dr cronin Cro the performance was emphatically termed ft a removal P when the jury were on the point of acquitting his hia murderers it was believed right would be done he jury was composed of american gentlemen SOnt lemen even the clan na da gael lawyers objected to all foreign nations alit ali ties les A verdict for the acquit tal tot of the murderers was waa wanted a at the lawyers gill all americans too naively remarked that american juryman jurymen J u aymen could be more easily and more cheaply bought than foreign born citizens even the salt lake tribune a few weeks ago in an editorial on farmers said asid that boss bose tweed had less leas difficulty in buying the native farmers far of new york state than in buying the foreign burn born saloon keepers pers of new york city out but it the lynching lunching lyn ching in new orleans was not murder then blackstone Blach atone Is no authority in that case a number of citizens assembled and deliberately entered upon a scheme of killing RS as if they were going to a festival what the new orleans papers and people now say may of the italians Itil luns uns they said of the yankees a few years ago and yen even today a yankee has to keep hip bit mouth auth well guarded or he will flad find himself some morning in the happy bunting grounds it is questionable whether benjamin F butlers butler Is lire life would roste roseate there even today but this unfortunate affair is not thoroughly understood by the people at large party politics and faction jim bm is at the bottom of I 1 it it was not I 1 kin entirely of mafia 0 origin r botinelly borinelli Bo tinell I 1 arild tle the italian sculptors of attended a meeting of italians in that city to denounce we die lynching lunching lyn ching there were other eminent nent italians present also it must be prest presumed arned that they knew something of italian affairs and if the new or loans leans tragedy were a mafia one they would not appear in public to denounce it it must be admitted that all of the italians in this country coultry are not criminals but it appears that all are united in denouncing the new orleans killing the chicago dotty news newa publishes ishee an interview with a new orleans gentleman which gives the matter a dif ferent aspect here is what that gentleman says sc 1 I am just from the cresent city ho be said land and am in good mental condition to give the genesis of the terrible affair of yesterday it can be given if necessary in two words sectional strife not race but sectional to be understood I 1 must go back to the days when new orleans had bout on one detective concern this wa the boylan detective agency a firm that had done business in the south for years it enjoyed a monopoly and had no competition until the agency entered the field about five years yearn ago this concern established itself at 82 32 car mondelet street D 0 was the head of the agency a detective of unusual acumen and ability but absolutely unscrupulous in character his professional abilities were quickly recognized and such prominent new orleans lawyers as an T J semmes ed farrer and horner dt A son employed employs emp loya him alley simply cut the ground wm under the feet of the boylan agency and ami made money david 0 C hennessy was boyland Boy lans partner and of course Ol OM allys Mallys competitor both hennessy and omally were men of unquestioned courage the fleite business competition engendered a bakter strife between them two years ago new orleans experienced a change of government the reform party or rather the young mens democratic party of whom denues hennesay y was wa a prominent leader succeeded in ousting the old administration omally on the other hand contributed money mone influence and hard work to keep the I 1 old power 0 aw i in n office 1 but bul the young mens movement succeeded and hennessy was made chief of police as a reward for his efforts then began a veritable feud between hennessy and Ol omally Mally the chief of police oll lee annoyed irritated and persecuted persecute dp his bis rival constantly omally was arrested dozens of times for carrying concealed weapons bear in mind hat besides being hennes henn es a personal enemy omally represented the t deposed city government and the two sections the new and the old powers power were violently prejudiced against each other four years before his assassination hennessy himself assassinated a man named devereaux the chief of the dete 5 3 tives of the new orleans pollen police department with his brother mike hennessy he ran devereaux down about two in the office of john fairfax who is now publisher and editor of the new orleans item while makel hennessy drew devereaux into an altercation dave hennessy stepped up behind the chief of detectives and blew his brains out both men were acquitted on the ground protection some months after mike hennessy was arsaw assassinated in houston tex it Iti is salso also coincidental that Henne Hennes father and cousin causin were assassinated devereaux and were friends and members of the same party the Hennes shot devereaux they were bitter deadly foes of his business and his party they were kille ille dand to a man up a tree it looks as if they were iv ore 1 killed by a vendetta and a white while vendetta at that the italians may or nay may not have killed dave hennessy Hen neasy but if they did it was not the work of the matta mafia it was the work of af the opposing ing element ta the present city administration is r ration and the italians were but cats paws A word about the red light club of which dave hennessy was president at the time he was killed ghis club has an elegant and elaborate club house on customhouse tom house street a street which correll with your fourth avenue where the deml minde are located the club has thirteen charter and about seventy associate members and is a swift club in all respects aich game is the rule and when such a distinguished man as john L sullivan is in new ew orleans the red light club is very apt to get u up a 1 eriv private a te I 1 view of the dark side of new orleans bans f for b r his benefit this club took an active part in the trial of the italians shot yesterday berday it ii is difficult for me to believe that the lury iury was bribed jacob seligman the foreman has lived in now new orleans for years if indeed he was not born there his elie jewelry store was an extensive exren sive establishment lish ment on baronne street and he occupied a high social position in new orleans society he was a member of many clubs and of the stock exchange exe hange and has always borne a reputation above reproach as asa a man and a citizen the jury as we noted by the local press was an exceptionally intelligent above the average july jul y you inay may depend on it that the truth will come out some day and it will be found that dave hennessey was murdered not by IA italians lians but by the opposing faction in An now new orleans politics and that the killing of those eleven italians yesterday was an outrage which was committed by men wrought to a frenzy by bv cold blooded misrepresentation of facts t this is an account which at least oves one the impression that the speaker knew what be was talking about it shows plainly that hennessy hennesay the murdered man was a tough case Ps his whole family it seems were st a tough lot his position as chief of police he be owed to his services as a faction fighter figh tei his duty was according to party poll ties to crush out his 0 opponent p whether an italian from sicily or one from mayo in ireland as was the case with the true history of this thia tragic affair has only been partly written if the lynching lunching lyn ching was not murder then that word has changed its mean ing |
