Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-05-29
an ITALIAN NAVY KILLED.
Shot Dead by a Drunken Youth Of
Is Years,

10 te8kBs
A Bel Air special to the Baltimore Sun
dated Thursday, says: Shortly after
noon to. day James Msckin, SOD of Joseph
Mackin of Havre de Grace, shot and
instantly killed an unknown laborer who
was employed on Parliament & Co, "a con.
tract of the Baltimore & Ohio extension.
The deceased ia supposed to be an Italian
or Hungarian. He could not speak q
word OF English, however, and 1t is said
offered not the slightest provoostion To
his asssilRnt, who is youth only 1e
years OF age. II is said young Mackin
killed him for fun, and that the victim
WAS not within 10 feet Of his assailant al
any time.
There WAS but one witness to the
tragedy, Mr.. Lsgates, who is watohmsn
at the Stokes street railroad crossing,
Havre de Grace, who says Msokin fred
the region of the heart. The shooting
WAS done at an alley near the freight
house. The Italian, according to this
witness, was standing about 10 feet from
the freight house, near the alley.
Maokin came out, put up his pistol and
fred the three shots, the last one
taking effect and killing him In
stantly. No one saw them talking or
quarreling. Maokin had been drinking.
He was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Boyd.
Coroner Charshee held an ipqnest over
the body of the deceased, and the jury
rendered verdict that he cams to HE
death by pistol shot fred by James
Mackin. This crossing watchmsn testi-
fed TO the effect stated above. The pris-
oner was ordered committed, and WAS
conveyed to Jail at Bel AIR, which he
reached in the afternoon. The grand jury
had just adjourned, aud Maokin will
be compelled to remain 10 Jail
until next November court. His father,
Joseph Mackin, was in Bel Air IL
attendance on the grand jury in a local
.ption osse at the time the shooting took
place in Havre de Grace. Dnri' The
morning al slterostion between Joseph
Maokin and William L Cooley, IN nbsr
OF the bar, occurred at Staglner's II otsl,
in Bel Air, in which Mackin WAS knocked
down. Msckin Immediately went bsfore
the grand jury, and Mr.. Cooley was
indicted for assault. This result had
gram WAS sent to Mackin informing him
OF the desperate deed of his son.
Maokin's statement to Deputy Sheriff
Boyd, who took the prisoner to Bel Air,
is that before noon pa ty of Italians had
gone to the house Of John Il. Serricks,
and asked for something to drink.
Ssrricks WAS absent, and the family,
being alarmed at the presence of the
Italians, asked young Mackin to protect
them. He refused to Sell the Italians
any liquor, and they left. At noon
Mackin started for homs to get his
dinner. At the freight depot he met
the Italians agsin. a quarrel took
place, and he says one Of the
Italians advanced toward him In q
threatening manner with his hand be-
hind him, as though about to draw a
weapon. Maokin says he had heard that
pistol shot would frightsn an Italian,
and he drew his pistol, firing two shots
into the ground by his side. TIE man
continued to advance, and he aimed the
third time at him, intending to shoot him
in the leg. The ball struck the Italian
in the left breast, causing his death half
an hour afterwards.
News of the killing soon spread among
the Italian laborers, who are very numer-
ous in the neighborhood, and they
poured into Havre de Grace from every
direction, threatening to lynch Msckin
| Maokin went home after the shooting and
Deputy Sheriff Boyd found him in bed.
He got mp and went quietly to Bel Air.
As the deputy and his prisoner left Bel
Air they met band of excited Italians
who called to Boyd to stop, but he put
whip to his horse, and dsshing through
the crowd, conveyed his prisoner unmo
lested to Jail. Mackin expresses no re-
gret for the circumstance, and says hs
does not care what becomes of himself.