Savannah Morning News, 15 March 1891, page 1: A city in arms: the New Orleans prison killings
A CITY IN ARMS: Eleven of the Mafia Gang Slain by Lynchers. Thousands in a Mob. Its Leaders Prominent in Business and Law.
- Paper
- The Morning News (Savannah, Ga.)
- Date
- 1891-03-15
- Page
- Page 1
- Headline
- A CITY IN ARMS: Eleven of the Mafia Gang Slain by Lynchers. Thousands in a Mob. Its Leaders Prominent in Business and Law.
- Rights
- A United States newspaper published in 1930 or earlier. Public domain in the United States. The Library of Congress serves the page from Chronicling America.
Front page of The Morning News, Savannah, Sunday, 15 March 1891. The headline, “A City in Arms,” is followed by decks that include “Thousands in a Mob. Its Leaders Prominent in Business and Law.” The report of 14 March says a crowd killed eleven Italian-born prisoners in the New Orleans parish prison and that two of the bodies were hung.
A section headed “The Trial and the Acquittal” says the jury had acquitted six of the defendants and returned a mistrial as to three, and alleges, without proof on the page, that the jury had been corrupted. The paper’s headline and text carry anti-Italian framing and treat the victims as guilty although it reports the verdicts.
That language is not quoted here. The page is filed as a record of how the lynching was reported in the South. It is not a neutral account of the events and is not used as a source of facts about the victims.