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The Lynching of the Mafia
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:22 pm
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:22 pm
Doing some reading on the 1891 lynching of the Mafia in New Orleans. The anti-Mafia police chief was murdered in 1890. He said with his dying breath the Dagos killed him. The suspects were acquitted a year later. A mob of several thousand stormed the prison and lynched or shot to death 11 suspected Mafiosos. Here are some of the newspaper articles from the Times-democrat and the Picayune
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Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:28 pm to prplhze2000
Respect the effort but I can’t read any of that
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:32 pm to prplhze2000
HBO made a movie about the lynching. It created an international incident and Italy made a formal protest in Washington.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:35 pm to prplhze2000
Lies. Everyone knows only black peoples were ever hanged in all of history
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:35 pm to prplhze2000
Can you link the newspaper? On mobile & it's like
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:37 pm to This GUN for HIRE
Came from newspapers. Com. Need a subscription
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:49 pm to prplhze2000
Small typewriters back then.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:51 pm to biglego
Idk if this was the incident but wasn’t the largest case of lynching actually Italians?
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:54 pm to Riverside
quote:
HBO made a movie about the lynching.
Vendetta
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:02 pm to prplhze2000
So were these wops actually connected and guilty or what
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:06 pm to biglego
quote:These were Italians
only black peoples were ever hanged in all of history
Same thing
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:42 pm to prplhze2000
People’s eyeballs must have been HUGE back then.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:47 pm to prplhze2000
I miss the mob. At least crime was organized back then.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:51 pm to LordSaintly
quote:
quote:HBO made a movie about the lynching. Vendetta
How the hell did I miss that?
Oh 1999. Was probably drunk partying at the club.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:55 pm to prplhze2000
..feel like he was good with numbers.
This post was edited on 1/31/25 at 11:56 pm
Posted on 2/1/25 at 12:17 am to TankBoys32
quote:
Idk if this was the incident but wasn’t the largest case of lynching actually Italians?
It still stands as the most people lynched at one time in US history. Even during slavery, 11 were never lynched at one time.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 1:10 am to prplhze2000
TL/DR
Posted on 2/1/25 at 1:18 am to Kafka
quote:
These were Italians Same thing
Posted on 2/1/25 at 7:21 am to Juan Betanzos
You would think from our media hundreds of blacks were lynched daily or weekly
Posted on 2/1/25 at 7:24 am to prplhze2000
Didn't stop the growth of the mafia, did it?
The truth was that Hennessey was in bed with one of the groups. They pretty much ran the port because most of the Longshoremen back then were Sicilian with a smaller amount of Irish thrown in for good measure. Hennessey wasn't clean, no one back then was. The port made a lot of money for the city both legitimately and not so legitimate and everyone was in on the act. The cops, politicians, bankers, mafia you name it.
The truth was that Hennessey was in bed with one of the groups. They pretty much ran the port because most of the Longshoremen back then were Sicilian with a smaller amount of Irish thrown in for good measure. Hennessey wasn't clean, no one back then was. The port made a lot of money for the city both legitimately and not so legitimate and everyone was in on the act. The cops, politicians, bankers, mafia you name it.
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