Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Eleven Italian men were held at the parish prison in New Orleans when a mob took them and killed them, according to an April 1891 newspaper report. A grand jury began investigating the killings and heard testimony from the mob's leader and from the Italian consul. The killings were described as a lynching from the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.