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Showing posts with label Crescent City Lynchings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crescent City Lynchings. Show all posts
27 February 2021

Jury complete, 1891 Mafia trial begins

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On this date in 1891... A lengthy jury selection process concluded Friday, February 27, 1891, and the trial of nine men accused of the assa...
06 August 2018

Unlucky date for Steel City underworld bosses

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August 6 has been a bad date to be a Pittsburgh Mafia boss. On that date in 1929, thirty-nine-year-old underworld chief Stefano Monaste...
05 May 2018

1891 grand jury indicts bribers, defends killers

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Says number involved in Crescent City lynchings makes indictment, prosecution impossible On this date in 1891... A grand jury, tasked wi...
15 October 2017

New Orleans police chief ambushed, murdered

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On this date (Oct. 15) in 1890, New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy was fatally shot by several Mafia assassins a short distance from hi...
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05 July 2017

Hennessys capture Sicilian brigand in New Orleans

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On this date in 1881: Cousins David and Michael Hennessy, members of the New Orleans detective (or "aides") force, capture fugitiv...
02 March 2017

Disturbance at trial of Hennessy assassins

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On this date in 1891, one of nine accused Mafiosi, standing trial in New Orleans for plotting and carrying out the assassination of Police C...
13 January 2017

$5000 awarded to family of lynch victim

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On this date in 1894, a federal jury returned a sealed verdict in a lawsuit related to an alleged New Orleans Mafia leader who was killed by...