# The Sun (New York), 15 March 1891, page 1: lynching of eleven prisoners in the New Orleans jail

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Front-page report dated New Orleans, 14 March, that a mob 'led by lawyers and merchants' killed eleven of the nineteen Italians charged with the murder of Chief Hennessy; the deck headlines state that the action was approved by the leading exchanges.

The Sun's front page for Sunday, 15 March 1891, reports from New Orleans, 14 March, that a mob "led by lawyers and merchants" killed eleven of the nineteen Italians charged with the murder of Chief Hennessy. It lists the dead, says the authorities made no show of resistance, quotes the jury foreman's explanation of the verdict, and says the grand jury had already indicted two men for tampering with the jury. The deck headlines include "Led by Lawyers and Merchants" and "The Police Cheer the Mob On" and state that the action was approved by the leading exchanges.

The OCR is poor throughout, names are normalized from the readings, and the headlines were not checked on the page image. The approval of the killings in the deck is the paper's opinion, quoted here and not endorsed. The continuation is on page 2, which is filed separately.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1891-03-15/ed-1/?sp=1
- 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/sn83030272/00175044942/1891031501/0518.xml&format=alto_xml&full_text=1