Episode 24: Unsolved
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“Joseph Bowne “J. B.” Elwell,” Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42762360/joseph-bowne-elwell.
Tom Smith, The Crescent City Lynchings: the Murder of Chief Hennessy, the New Orleans "Mafia" Trials, and the Parish Prison Mob, (Lyons Pressan, an Imprint of The Globe Pequot Press, 2007).
Woodiwiss, Michael. Double Crossed: the Failure of Organized Crime Control, (Pluto Press, 2017). 24.
“VENDETTA IN NEW ORLEANS,” American Heritage, https://web.archive.org/web/20090206174250/http://americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1973/4/1973_4_65.shtml.
“The Axeman of New Orleans Preyed on Italian Immigrants,” Smithsonian Magazine, February 15 2018, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/axeman-new-orleans-preyed-italian-immigrants-180968037/.
“The Axeman of New Orleans,” Legends of America, November 2020, https://www.legendsofamerica.com/la-axeman/.
Jäger, Daniela G. “The Worst ‘White Lynching’ in American History: Elites vs. Italians in New Orleans, 1891.” AAA: Arbeiten Aus Anglistik Und Amerikanistik, vol. 27, no. 2, (2002): pp. 161–179.
JACKSON, JESSICA BARBATA. “Before the Lynching: Reconsidering the Experience of Italians and Sicilians in Louisiana, 1870s-1890s.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, vol. 58, no. 3, (2017): pp. 300–338.
Kurtz, Michael L. “Organized Crime in Louisiana History: Myth and Reality.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, vol. 24, no. 4, (1983): pp. 355–376.
GAUTHREAUX, ALAN G. “An Inhospitable Land: Anti-Italian Sentiment and Violence in Louisiana, 1891-1924.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, vol. 51, no. 1, (2010): pp. 41–68.
"Shot Down at His Door; The Chief of the New-Orleans Police Brutally Murdered," The New York Times, October 17 1890, p.1.
"Crimes of the Mafias. The Suspected Assassins of Chief Hennessy," The New York Times, October 20, 1890, p.1.
"Indictments Found at Last; The New-Orleans Grand Jury Acts on Chief Hennessy's Murder," The New York Times, November 22, 1890, p. 5.
"Chief Hennessy Avenged; Eleven of His Italian Assassins Lynched by a Mob," The New York Times, March 15, 1891, p.1.
"Signor Corte's Farewell; His Story of the Lynching of the Italians," The New York Times, May 24, 1891, p. 1.
“Joseph Maggio,” Pocket Insights, https://pocketsights.com/tours/place/Joseph-Maggio-19725.
“The Impossible Murder of Joseph Bowne Elwell,” Criminal, https://vocal.media/criminal/the-impossible-murder-of-joseph-bowne-elwell.