The Evening World (New York), 14 March 1891, Extra edition, page 2: editorial on the Hennessy jury's verdict

An editorial in the Extra edition (the Library of Congress lists this edition as “(EXTRA)”) of The Evening World for 14 March 1891. It was written after the verdict and before the killings that afternoon. It says the acquittal of six prisoners was unanimous, that the verdict was “exceedingly distasteful” to New Orleans, that the evening papers were strong in dissent and one charged bribery, and that secret meetings were held. It says the jury should be credited with “manly impartiality” in the absence of evidence to the contrary.

It adds that the Mafia “has never been proven to have a being in this country” and that lynching the Italians would be murder. The editorial heading is garbled in the OCR, so the headline above is descriptive. The page is cited as a contemporary editorial opinion, written before the events that followed.