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Showing posts with label Deep Water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deep Water. Show all posts
02 April 2019

NOLA mayor to offer apology for 1891 lynchings

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American Italian Center to host proclamation on April 12 Cantrell New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell will offer an "Official Pro...
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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24 April 2017

New Orleans removes Liberty Place monument

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Early this morning (Monday, April 24, 2017), city of New Orleans workers dismantled and removed the Liberty Place monument, commemorating th...
01 April 2017

New Orleans underworld boss murdered

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On this date in 1869, New Orleans Mafia boss Raffaele Agnello was shot to death during an underworld feud.  New Orleans Crescent, April 2...
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...
28 October 2016

On this date in 1868 - New Orleans gangland murder

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On April 2, 1869, the New Orleans Crescent reflected upon the causes of local Sicilian gang violence. On this date in 1868 - Returnin...