The Lynching at New Orleans

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 131, 28 April 1891, Page 4

The Lynching at New Orleans

FI7LL PAKTICULAES OF THE OUTRAGE. (T'KR SAN KIiANCISCO- MAIL STEAMER;) The New Orleans lynching outrage I ' occurred at middaj' on the 1 4tli March, j tliH'lay following the trial of the Hen- | ner-sv murderers. The announcement j irr'tjr^ nToTniVi'g puper ; cmfverieu an ■ assemblage for iO o'clock, adding, ''Gome I ire pa n»d for action." Thousands of people assembled, and guns, revolvers, and ammunition wore .handed out from ah araftiml. As the j crowd marched to the prison it grew into a r vast, multitude A meeting was held, in: the open air. Mr Parkorson, the leader, is a prominent lawyer, President of the Southern Athletic Club,,,aiid the man who led the vigorous; reform movement three years ago. Walter Deneger, another of the Bpeak«re,,is.orie of the. leaders of the New Orleans Bar. Other speakers were J. •WiclilifJe, a prominent At- . toriieyj aud James Houston, one of theifbremoßt men iv ■- the State. The prison .doors had been heavily barred iuiantioipationj'.but they^ were smashed down with tue axes and battering rams. Patrol wagons drove up with police reliifcyrceuaentsbut they w.ere driven away wich""Btones;a'nd'mud. ; : Seven or eight 'c/fi'the? leaders 'ascended ; the staircase, and as they reached the lahdinj* the 'assassins fled .dpjwn; at the .other end; H^lf j a dozen- followed them, scarcely ' a-.^word. being ''spoken. When the pur¥ued and 1 pursuers' reached a stone courtyard,, the, \ assassins darted towards' the. Of leans'; side o|'tfcU gallery an'd ; 'crouched' ddwri baside the cells, th6ir';Jfaces'' btahcaed. Beibg unarmed they : were ab' sol iit'ely defenceless.' In fear.:; and' tfenlblitig they serearaed'for'aiercy, 1 but the avengers were merciless. Bang, bang, bang, raff" out" \ "tli^'^repprts , of; ri^urderous r wda ! p6nsi -anS a cleaiily rain of. bullets : po f ured'inLo the^ crouching , figures. ' Gerkchi, the neaVes't man, was struck in the back of the head and his body waj*pitched_fprward:}' Eqrnero fell to his r knees,with.jhi;s face in his hands, • and in that, position ,wap shot to death. - Monatero and James Carusa fell to-f-jrether under the fire of half a dozen : rifles, the bull etSj entering their bodies - 'and- heads'* b'eb'eath! Continuing their '' fire-, ' Obmetax ' and' Trahinia," two of f -'2jl)B fta'en : whb- had r not : been tried, but .v^We^charged' ; jointly with the other r^irii^tfseS, fell' together, their bodies :riddled" with bullets. When r-^tliSj'grdup'bf assassins was discovered ""'oincthe gallery, Macheca, Scaffedi, --■• and.old maniMarche'si 1 separated from "■ - T the" other six and- ran upstairsThtther half- a-: dozen 1 men followed '- them)rand- as, ther. terror-stricken men ■• fan into the cells they were slain. Macheca, who was charged with being '"■the. arch-conspirator, had . his back ' "turned, when a .shot: 'struck him im- "■ mediately behind the ear, and death '" was instantaneous.' Scaffedi, one of "> the most villainous of the assassins. " dropped Hke a dog- when a bullet hit - him in* the' eye. Old man Marchesi ' was the only man who was not killed <* outright. He was struck on the top of ' the 'head while he stood beside , - Macheca, and though mortally ' wounded, lingered all night. Pollitz, --• a t-razy man,, was in a cell upstairs. The doors were flung open, and one • r of the avengers shot him through the "body. He was not killed outright, ; ■■■• aud in order to; "satisfy the people on thef'Utside, who were mad to know . ■?' ■'"■what~!wa8 i going , on within, he was - dragged downstairs and through the • 'doo^w^ay by.' which the crowd had '- entered, and half- earned, half-drag- :-- 'gedrwas taken to a corner where a :" rope had been' provided, and it was ' "tied round his neck, and the people • ' pulled him up to the cross bars. Not c satisfied that he was, dead, a score of '<■■ men took aim and 'poured a volley of* I shot into'his body, and for several - hours the; I'bdy was left dangling in ' in the' air. Bag'netto was caught in " the first -rush 'upstairs, and the first " .volley of bullets -pierced his brain. . ' cSe'was pulled out by a number of ; men through the main |j^|^|ntrance to the prison*,' and irom the iH^'-limb of a tree the body was suspended j ! ?: ■ ' ■• although life w as already gone. The - Assemblage theu, dispersed quietly. ■ Wi»liWWßlMi»fiT. l «-i'^».^ll ll »lift l J^MmvbJiLaßLa^agZ^3CEEß>