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Halinville, Louisiana

One of three Italian nationals taken from the jail in Halinville, Louisiana, by a mob and killed about a year before an August 1897 newspaper report. The man was held in the jail, and a mob took him and the two others from it and killed them. The State Department later paid an indemnity to Italy's charge in Washington, Count Vinci, for the killings.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

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