Robert C. Davey
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Robert Charles Davey was a U.S. representative from Louisiana.
Robert Charles Davey
1891 New Orleans lynchings
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The 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans, immigrants in New Orleans, by a mob for their alleged role in the murder of police chief David Hennessy after some of them had
Rioters breaking into parish prison, as illustrated in History of the United States (1912, Scribner)
Artist's conception of Hennessy's murder. "Scene of the Assassination", The Mascot, New Orleans, 1890.
William S. Parkerson inciting the mob. Harper's Weekly, March 28, 1891.
Rioters outside Parish Prison