# The Sun (New York), 7 March 1891, page 5: 'Mafia secrets may come out' (Hennessy trial dispatch)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-sun-1891-03-07-p5/

A New Orleans dispatch dated 6 March on the Hennessy trial then under way says the whole story of the 'Mafia' might come out unless a prisoner became too insane to speak; it also states that 'there has not been a bit of evidence adduced' of a Mafia.

A dispatch dated New Orleans, 6 March, on the trial of the men accused of killing Chief Hennessy, then under way. It says the whole story of the "Mafia" might come out unless a prisoner became too insane to speak. It reports that this prisoner had been making statements about a secret society and naming Matranga and Macheca as its heads, while also stating that "there has not been a bit of evidence adduced" of a Mafia, and that the prisoner Charles Patorno had gone insane after arrest.

The prisoner's statements are reported claims. The OCR of this column is garbled, so the prisoner's name is not given here, and the headline ("Mafia secrets may come out") was read from OCR. The page also carries unrelated items.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1891-03-07/ed-1/?sp=5
- Library of Congress OCR text of this page: https://tile.loc.gov/text-services/word-coordinates-service?segment=/service/ndnp/nn/batch_nn_borges_ver01/data/sn83030272/00175044942/1891030701/0428.xml&format=alto_xml&full_text=1