The New Orleans justice court and district…
March 1891 CE
The New Orleans justice court and district attorney set the survivors free after the lynching, and drop the charges against the men who had not yet been tried.
One of the victims, Polizzi, had a police record in the U.S., having reportedly cut a man with a knife in Austin, Texas, several years earlier.
Two others had police records in Italy: Geraci had been accused of murder and had fled before he could be tried, and Comitz had been convicted of theft.
Incardona was wanted in Italy as a petty criminal.
Three of the men—Comitz, Monasterio, and Traina—had not applied for U.S. citizenship and could still be considered Italian subjects.
All of those lynched were Sicilian immigrants except for Macheca, a Louisiana native of Sicilian descent, and Comitz, who was from the Rome area.Groups
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