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 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
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Police Chief David Hennessy assassinated late in the evening of Oct. 15, 1890. Shots come from across Girod Street.
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Grocer David Clark is caught in crossfire of gang battle and suffers mortal wound in March 1869.
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Joseph Agnello escapes assassination attempt in 1869.
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Metropolitan Police Chief Algernon Badger falls seriously injured during Battle of Liberty Place.
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Detective Devereaux murders rival Detective Harris in March 1876. Devereaux argues self-defense, claims Harris hired a Sicilian assassin to kill him.
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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.
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Antonio Labousse is gunned down on July 15, 1881.
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Giuseppe Mattaino is found murdered on Feb. 24, 1889.
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Raffaele Agnello is shot to death on April 1, 1869.
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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.
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Detectives David and Mike Hennessy apprehend Sicilian outlaw Giuseppe Esposito on July 5, 1881.
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Palermo gangsters break into Messinian home and open fire at rivals on Feb. 15, 1869.
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Murder of Messinian Litero Barba on Oct. 28, 1868, initiates feud between Sicilian immigrants from Palermo and those from Messina.
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Messinian leaders Bananno and Allucho are cornered and killed at Old French Market on July 22, 1869.
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Joseph Agnello is trapped and murdered at Picayune Pier on April 20, 1872.
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Wagon carrying Matranga stevedores is ambushed by Provenzano gunmen in early morning hours of May 6, 1890.
By Thomas Hunt Copyright © 2006
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