In the late hours of October 15, 1890, New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy was ambushed and shot multiple times by a group of assailants as he walked home. The 32-year-old male chief of police, an Irish Catholic, reportedly whispered to a responding officer that 'dagos' were responsible before succumbing to his wounds the following day. His death, which occurred amidst a backdrop of tensions between rival Italian factions vying for control of the city's fruit-unloading docks, plunged New Orl
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