NEW ORLEANS MURDERS.
TRIAL OF A DETECTIVE. ARMED CITIZENS IN THE COURT. ITALY AND AMERICA. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright New Yoke, April 11. Detective O'Malley, who is suspected of having been an agent of the Mafia, the Sicilian secret society in New Orleans, and who is believed to have bribed the jurymen who tried and acquitted the prisoners accused of murdering Mr. Hennessy, chief of the police, was indicted on a charge to-day at New Orleans. Thirty citizens, well armed, attended the court in order to compel the expedition of the trial. The public refuse to give evidence before the grand jury on charges brought against those alleged to have been concerned in the lynching of the Sicilians. The Union League Club, embodying the leading men of New York, recognise the patriotism of the lynchers without justifying the outrage, and urge the Federal Government to check the importation of criminal paupers. It is reported that the Italian Government threaten to close diplomatic relations with the United States Government unless an immediate reply is sent to the message of the Marquis di Rudini, in which he demanded reparation to be made for the lynching of the Sicilians.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8539, 13 April 1891, Page 5
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