# New-York Tribune, 15 March 1891, page 2: Stamped Out in Blood, and Italy May Demand Indemnity

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Page 2 carries a New Orleans account headed 'Stamped Out in Blood. The Mafia in New-Orleans Receives Its Death Blow,' and a Washington special, 'Italy May Demand Indemnity,' saying the State Department had held that a lynching of foreign subjects gave no strictly legal claim for damages.

The New-York Tribune of 15 March 1891 prints the New Orleans account under the headline "Stamped Out in Blood. The Mafia in New-Orleans Receives Its Death Blow." It is the same Associated Press text as the Indianapolis Journal's, with a different headline. The headline approves of the killings and is quoted for the record, not endorsed.

The page also prints a Washington special, "Italy May Demand Indemnity," which says the State Department had always held that no strictly legal claim for damages could result from a lynching of foreign subjects and refers to Secretary Bayard's policy in a parallel case. The official correspondence is filed separately from the State Department's printed volume for 1891.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1891-03-15/ed-1/?sp=2
- Library of Congress OCR text of this page: https://tile.loc.gov/text-services/word-coordinates-service?segment=/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_eagle_ver02/data/sn83030214/00175038462/1891031501/0200.xml&format=alto_xml&full_text=1