Name not reported
Five men of Italian origin were taken from a jail in Tallulah, Louisiana, by a mob and hanged, according to a federal message reprinted in The Semi-Weekly Messenger in December 1899. The message does not name the men. It says state authorities and a representative of the Italian embassy investigated with differing results, particularly about the men's citizenship, and that a federal inquiry was still under way.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). A federal message reprinted in the paper says a mob took five Italian-origin people from a Tallulah, Louisiana jail and hanged them, and that state and Italian embassy investigations gave discrepant results on the victims' citizenship.
Reported by: federal message reprinted in the paper; state authorities and an Italian embassy representative (outside investigators).