The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-03-21

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showed no repentance or sorrow,
and seemed to regret only that he
had not killed his enemy. He
could hardly speak a word OF Eng
lish, and appeared TO have an un-
governable temper that at times
almost went into paroxysms. His
friends say that Guiffridi treated him
wrong about his wages; that he
brought him out from New York to
Augusta. and after promising to in
crease his wages discharged him
that, writhing under this sense of
wrong, in a strange land, half
starved and helpless, he threw hin.-
self upon the man that had wronged
him. He was sentenced to ten
years hard labor i'll the penitentia-
ry.
REFUSING TO WORK OR EAT.
And now comes the strange part
of the story. He became very vio-
lent, and declared that he would die
before he would work. Upon
reaching the camp he refused to
take hold of the pick-ax. Under
the discipline OF the camp, he was
stripped, tied up and whipped. He
laughed and cursed in broken Eng
lish as the cruel lash cnt in the
flesh, and when the whipping was
over said, "Whip some more; me
won't work" He was whipped
again until the Superintendent, see
{ ing that lac was exhausted, ordered
him down.
He was whipped again the next
day and the next, but never would
he touch the pick-ax. His back
was lacerated, and it must have
, been torture every time the lash
: touched him; but he never WINGED.
:. He would curse his keepers, and
i. laugh at their efforts to conquer
4 him. About this time it was dis
covered that he had not eaten q
: mouthful since he was brought tc
n the camp, and that under the effect:
! of whipping and starvation he wa:
very near death. Mr.. Twiggs, the
II engineer, went to see him, and askec
= him why he would not eat. Ht
said he would never eat again unit
he was given new trial. HI
seemed thoroughly convinced tha
. he had been unjustly treated, ant
d that if he could get new trial b,
}. would be cleared. He said "Nig
: ger stole money, four years-me tel
years. Why ?' alluding to a negro
y who had been sentenced when b,
" was. He was so weak he coulc
y hardly stand, and Mr.. Twiggs asked
him if it did not hurt him to ds
without food. "Ifurt first ire,
n days; very nice now; nothing hur
!, me-" To Mr.. Twiggs' horror, h,
then staggered to the fire, and
- picking up
soNE LIVE GOALS,
; held them in the palm of his hand
and, turning toward Twigg5, said
"Can you do that? Nothing hur
r me-" Mr.. Twiggs says the smok,
.e from the burning flesh rose from
Pimonti's hands, but he did no
vince. When the Goals had black
ened he threw them to a guard
: saying, "You get plenty dem whel
II YOU go down stairs" Mr.. Twigg
!" asked him if he wanted to die VIII,
:, he did not run and let the guard
= = shoot him. He said: Den me g,
;, down stairs" "But if you do no
,e eat you will die" eyes, but n,
e killce myself. Judge killee me
il Christ go to Jerusalem when h
rr know Jews killee him. Judge h
Ie Jews. He killee me-" At las
l. Mr.. Twiggs promised he woul'
'e write to the Governor asking fore
: new trial, and asked Pimonti t
;e eat something. "No," "he said, "yo
- write; me live FIVE, six days n
:, eating" "But you may be dcs
' before the Governor can reply.
" "Then yon write Governor and tel
u him man dead--takc no more trou
ID BILE" At length, after their show
a. ing him a letter to the Governor
,e the stubborn fellow was persuade
ie to take something to eat. He wa
OF then almost literally dying, an
~ " presented a shocking spectacle. II
=, has not worked at all, and whe
ID ordered to do so simply says
BRING STRAPS.
His case exeites great interest, :
!, the stubbornness with which he ac
\ induces the belief that there ma
n, be extenuating circumstances. TIL
ii italian Minister has written to CO.
e. Colquitt about the case, and aske
pc that the man be granted new tria
promising that capable interprett
he shall be present to see that the pri'
I'd oner has a fair showing and ca
m have his story understood. A pur:
no is being raised among the italian
- of Georgia and Carolina for h
:" benefit. The Governor is lookin
- over the papers in his case.
on The 18th of April is the day exc
en- by the committee of Callwell count