Lorenzo Saladdino
Lorenzo Saladdino was one of three Italian men held in the jail at Hahnville, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, in August 1896. A Record-Union account of the time says the sheriff moved him to the new jail to keep him from a crowd seeking to lynch him. Around midnight on August 8, about fifty armed men surprised the guard, broke down the jail doors, and took him and the two other men to a stable, where they were hanged, and the crowd then fired on the bodies. Accounts differ on the sheriff's conduct: a 2019 St. Charles Herald Guide article says he had hidden Saladdino in the woods, while an 1896 dispatch says he resisted the mob. The United States later paid Italy $6,000 in indemnity for the deaths of the three men.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Lorenzo Saladino from the Hahnville jail and hanged him, according to a Times Picayune account; the sheriff had earlier moved him there to keep him from a crowd.
Reported by: Times Picayune news account (reporters); U.S. State Department.
Sources (15)
- The San Francisco Call, August 10, 1896, page 3
- The Record-Union, August 10, 1896, page 1
- The Record-Union, August 10, 1896, page 2
- The Weekly Herald, August 14, 1896, page 6
- The Morning News, August 3, 1897, page 1
- The Age-Herald, August 3, 1897, page 1
- The Times, August 3, 1897, page 1
- Richmond Dispatch, August 3, 1897, page 1
- The Herald, August 3, 1897, page 3
- The Record-Union, August 3, 1897, page 7
- The Daily Morning Journal And Courier, August 3, 1897, page 1
- The Wilmington Daily Republican, August 3, 1897, page 1
- Rock Island Argus, August 3, 1897, page 1
- The Wichita Daily Eagle, August 3, 1897, page 1
- St. Charles Parish had its own Italian lynchings in 1896