[Rockingham]

A part that often gets left out is that the lynch mob in New Orleans was furious at the local Mafia, which was notoriously brutal, corrupt, and powerful and deeply rooted among Italian immigrants. Since the Mafia usually was able to escape the mechanisms of justice, a lynch mob made a certain sense.

Eventually, conditions settled, and, as elsewhere, the Mafia in New Orleans came to avoid the provocation of prominent threats and violence. The various immigrant communities separated and settled along ethnic lines, black, Italian, German, French, and Irish. Each community built their own separate churches, schools, and business districts, often within a block or two.

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Two gangs were fighting for control of the waterfront. One gang thought the sheriff was in the pocket of the other, so they did a hit on the sheriff. The jury wouldn’t convict, maybe due to lack of evidence, but maybe due to bribery and intimidation of various people. There wasn’t much evidence that all those gang members were directly involved. The mob lynched most of those acquited of murdet..

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What I can tell you second hand, from someone who was there, that was Dixie Mob territory. Sometime, back in the '30's the Italian mob tried to make moves and take over and the Dixie bunch was having none of it. There were dead Italian Costra Nostra suddenly turning up dead all over the place. Message sent, message received.