NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The mayor of New Orleans plans an apology to Italian Americans for what's considered the nation's most deadly lynching — violence in which 11 Italian immigrants were killed after acquittals in a police chief's murder.
"This has been a longstanding wound," said Michael Santo of the Order Sons and Daughters of Italy. The lynching in 1891 and responses to it prompted Italy to close its embassy in the U.S., followed by a reciprocal U.S. Embassy closing in Italy, he said.
The police chief in question, Commissioner David Hennessy, was ambushed late Oct. 15, 1890, by four men near his home. He died, reportedly blaming Italians. At least three of those tried in New Orleans had been in trouble with the law in Italy and another was a known Mafioso, according to Stahle, but at least five had clean records. Eight of those killed were U.S. citizens, three were Italian citizens.
The mob stormed the jail. Jailers opened cell doors and told the men to run, but nine were chased down and shot. Two others were hanged, according to the article. Of the 11 dead, three had been acquitted, the jury was hung on three others, and the remaining five had been indicted but not tried, Charles Marsala, who is working on a documentary about Sicilian immigration to New Orleans, said in an email.
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