The New Orleans Affair.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7179, 2 June 1891, Page 3

The New Orleans Affair.

HOYv r POLITZ WAS HANGED. Politz -was found chattering to himsell and quite mad, crouching under a stair case, and was dragged out and " kicked ot the way "to a lamp-post. Tho rope brok< the first time, and on the second attemp' the boy caught at it and drew himself u[ hand over hand until he reached the cross piece of the lamp-post, where he hunj gasping. Then the young man who ha< climbed the lamp-post to adjust the rop< beat him in the face with his fiat until he let go his hold. Ho fell back to th< pavement and was raised a third time, bul again dragged himself up by tho rope Then the people tied his hands, and foi the fourth time pulled him up into the air This last and successful effort, we are told waa "greeted by deafening cheers froix the crowd," who immediately tore his clothing off his back to divide aa souvenirs " As it hung in the eunlight," so a loca: paper says, "it made a somewhat ghaetlj picture, with the expospd bare flesh turnec to a deathly greenish pallor." After this the men walked back to the statue ol Henry Clay, "cheered on its return marcL by the ladies and children on the balconies," where it dispersed quietly. And in this way, on March 14, 1891, did the prominent citizens of New Orleans show that they were " justified in doing whal the law failedjto do."

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