Salvatore Areno
Lorenzo Salurdino, Salvatore Areno and Guiseppe Venturella were three Italian men held in the Hahnville jail in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, in August 1896. According to the Weekly Herald, about fifty armed people broke into the jail after midnight, overpowered the guard, and took the three men to a nearby stable, where they were hanged. The paper said the crowd fired on the bodies afterward, and one account said the sheriff had trouble holding back a crowd before one of the men was moved to Hahnville. The United States State Department later paid $6,000 in indemnity to the Italian government over the deaths.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about fifty armed people broke into the Hahnville jail, overpowered the guard, and hanged the three Italian men at a stable, according to newspaper reports; the State Department later paid Italy an indemnity over the deaths.
Reported by: news reports in the 1896 accounts of the Hahnville jail killings (reporters); U.S. State Department.