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WF ia ho “io qvendetta killings, Hennessy. called the warring factions together and obtained 9 itheir agreement to stop. But violence soon broke oul anew between them. dt 1?wo days after Hennessy: publicly announced that he would testify on behalf +5 re one faction at atrial, he was morderet. (100-42303-284) 8 In the subsequent trial of sleven Italians for the murder, ten days 18 > yore necessary to examine nearly £0 prospective jurors before a jury could 20 2Re impaneled, In March, 1891, the jury returned a verdict of "not guilty” as 2 22 ob eight, but was unable to reach an agreement os io three others. All were . . cgeturned to jall in view of a secon] Indictment ponding against them. 57 (100-42303-284) 28, Strong public feeling was aronsed by the verdict. The day following i eo = 3h end of the trial, a crowdof anery Nev Orleans cillzens stormed the jail, sgeized the defen.jants, hanged tye, apd ebot and fillet nine. The Ttallan a toverament protested the lynching, bet the state and local authorities took 36 3%0 action against the lynch mob decrite pleas from the United States Secretary 38 . 39f State. Italy thereupon severed diplomatic relations with this countr 4Q y iguring 1891-1992, 4 i Other incidents of extortion, kKldnaping, and murder took place in U5 Nghe Italian community in New Orleans during the 188u's and in the first NT pecade of the 1990's, As a consequence of the kiinaping of the son of a enw prominent faneral director in 1907, an [illan vigilante committee was 52 53 54 35 36 37 . 38 - 34 - iit ee a eee + as Danae a fe, vet g the