Map of New Orleans



C - Police Chief David Hennessy's Home in 1890
D - Central Police Station
F - St. Patrick's Hall - 1891 Criminal Court Building
U - St. Louis Cathedral
X - Produce section of Old French Market
Z - Orleans Parish Prison
2 - Police Chief David Hennessy assassinated late in the evening of Oct. 15, 1890. Shots come from across Girod Street.
3 - Grocer David Clark is caught in crossfire of gang battle and suffers mortal wound in March 1869.
4 - Joseph Agnello escapes assassination attempt in 1869.
6 - Metropolitan Police Chief Algernon Badger falls seriously injured during Battle of Liberty Place.
7 - Detective Devereaux murders rival Detective Harris in March 1876. Devereaux argues self-defense, claims Harris hired a Sicilian assassin to kill him.
10 - The statue of Henry Clay is the site of inflammatory meetings leading to the 1874 Democratic rebellion and the 1891 lynchings of captives at Parish Prison.
11 - Antonio Labousse is gunned down on July 15, 1881.
12 - Giuseppe Mattaino is found murdered on Feb. 24, 1889.
13 - Raffaele Agnello is shot to death on April 1, 1869.
14 - Parish Prison is the location of the largest lynching in U.S. history in October of 1891. Eleven Sicilian prisoners were shot and/or hanged.
15 - Detectives David and Mike Hennessy apprehend Sicilian outlaw Giuseppe Esposito on July 5, 1881.
16 - Palermo gangsters break into Messinian home and open fire at rivals on Feb. 15, 1869.
17 - Murder of Messinian Litero Barba on Oct. 28, 1868, initiates feud between Sicilian immigrants from Palermo and those from Messina.
19 - Messinian leaders Bananno and Allucho are cornered and killed at Old French Market on July 22, 1869.
20 - Joseph Agnello is trapped and murdered at Picayune Pier on April 20, 1872.
21 - Wagon carrying Matranga stevedores is ambushed by Provenzano gunmen in early morning hours of May 6, 1890.