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Raffaele Agnello was a Palermo, Sicily, Mafioso who set up a Mafia organization in New Orleans
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Agnello settled in the Crescent City before the war in 1860. He resided for a time with his
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brother Joseph in New Orleans' Fifth Ward (the central third of the French Quarter). When
Confederate forces and the local police abandoned New Orleans during the Civil War, Agnello
served in a home-guard police force of immigrants (who were considered neutral in the War Material on this site has been
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Between the States). He continued in that role during the federal occupation of the city. N. Main St., Whiting VT
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Agnello became a powerful underworld leader in New Orleans' Little Palermo in the later 1860s. time and money. Any
His gang of transplanted Palermitani came into conflict with a community of immigrants from unauthorized copying of the
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After a bitter and bloody feud, Agnello appeared to have defeated his rivals. However, he was interest in the subject of
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then ambushed and killed in 1869 in front of Macheca's fruit store near Old Levee Street and the biographies of the
Toulouse Street. A blunderbuss pistol was fired in Agnello's face while he walked with his underworld characters and
law enforcement personnel,

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 godson and bodyguard Frank Sacarro. Sacarro shot at and wounded his godfather's assassin, the author has presented the
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but the gunman fled through a nearby bakery shop. that allows online linking to
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Agnello's brother Joseph continued a losing struggle for years before he, too, was murdered. the author's copyright notice
Joseph Agnello was shot to death on a vessel moored at the Picayune Tier on April 20, 1872. and all web links within the
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148 years ago: New Orleans boss murdered (Writers of Wrongs - 01 Apr 2017)
The murder of New Orleans boss Joseph Agnello (Writers of Wrongs - 20 Apr 2017)

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Amatuna, Samuzzo
(c1899-1925)
Alfano, Enrico
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 Agnello, Raffaele
(c1829-1869)
Doto, Giuseppe "Joe
Adonis" (1906-
1971)
Accardo, Anthony
Joseph (1906-
1992)
Aiello, Joseph
(1890-1930)
Crocevera, Isadoro
(1873-1920)

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