NEW ORLEANS Ep. 2 | “The Sicilian Lynchings, Part 1”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On a hot October night in 1890, the New Orleans chief of police gunned down a few blocks from his home. The police quickly round up the usual suspects. The detainees are almost exclusively Italian. Anti-Italian sentiment engulfed much of the city, but the ensuing courtroom trial cast serious doubt about the guilt of the 19 men who were charged with the crime. The verdict set the stage for one of the darkest chapters in New Orleans’ history. Check out the Jordan Harbinger show today! jordanharbinger.com/start Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join To advertise on this podcast, please email: [email protected] For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like The Explorers, History of the Great War, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.9	19 Italian men awoke inside the parish prison in New Orleans on March 14, 1891.
0:50.6	They'd all been there for five months.
0:53.0	They'd all been charged in the murder of David Hennessy, the famed chief of the New Orleans
0:57.7	Police Department who had been gunned down on Gerard Street.
1:02.1	The men were going to trial in groups.
1:04.7	Yesterday, four men were acquitted of the crime.
1:08.3	Three men were granted mistrials, and two had their cases thrown out by the judge, but
1:13.8	they all remained in custody.
1:16.4	The authorities were ordered to keep them in jail for a lesser charge, not the murder,
1:21.2	or depending on which newspaper you read, they were being held for their own safety,
1:26.2	but the men weren't anything but safe.
1:29.0	This left the exonerated men suspicious as to why they remained behind bars.
1:34.1	But overall, the mood in the cells was jovial.
1:37.3	The acquittals gave hope to those who still had to stay in trial.
1:41.4	Maybe the jurors and the public were seeing the trial and the investigation for what it
1:46.0	was.
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