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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 585, 21 March 1891, Page 2

The information that the Sicilian* recently lynched in New Orleans are all American citizens, is the only gratifying intelligence about the whole affair. It will relieve the mind of any fear as to a grave international difficulty, for there would certainly have been trouble between the United .States and Italian Governments over the affair. The lynching process is a dr?adffil method of punishing suspected criminals, mainly from the possibility of innocent people being murdered. A howling mob judges without teason, and there are the gravest objections against mob law. But in this case the sympathy of all Britishers must be with the lynchers. The assassin who commits murder in cold blood is more terrible than the lyncher- The Sicilians have carried the bloodthirsty vendetta custom into the States. If a person doss the most trivial thing objected to by their low type of humanity the foreigner would think nothing of stabbing that man in the bA«k. If OBJ Sicilian ratinlerg *noiher

then his relations must be revenged, and so the cruel v- ndetta is carried on. The Chief of the Police made an attempt to suppress this sort of thing, and being himself “ marked ” he was soon assassinated. Probably it was fear that acted upon the jury in this instance. A man must have strong moral courage to be able to faithfully carry out his duty wiih thoughts of the assassin’s dagger filling his mind. Enough is known of the Mafia Society to lead to the belief that in case of convictions every juryman would be “ marked" for assassination. The whole thing is most unfortunate, and what the end of it may be seems too horrible for contemplation.