A grand jury had convened on March…
May 1891 CE
A grand jury had convened on March 17, 1891, to investigate the lynching.
Judge Robert H. Marr, who presided over the jury, wis a longtime personal friend of several of the lynch mob participants.
On May 5, 1891, the grand jury publishes a report concluding that several jurors in the Hennessy case had been bribed to acquit the Italians.
No proof is offered and no criminal charges are pursued.
The grand jury claims that it cannot identify the participants in the lynching.
In the same report, the lynching is described as a "gathering" of "several thousands of the first, best, and even the most law-abiding, of the citizens of this city."
No one is indicted.
Only Thomas Duffy, the newspaper salesman who had shot Scaffidi in October, is penalized.
Duffy was serving time in the Parish Prison at the time of the lynching.
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