St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-23
''DAGOS" IN DURESS.
Two of the Italians Who Slew
Foreman Hubbard Are
Jailed.
A Posse in Pursuit Of the
Others Of the
Gang.
Slow-Footed Sioux Delay the
Grand PoW-WOW at Lower
Brule.
Jones County's Historic Calf
Case Decided in the Plain
tiff'S Favor.

Special to the Globe.
WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, Sept. 22-At
Hawthorne, a station on the Omaha
railway, twenty miles from Superior,
there occurred, last evening at $50, one
of the most cold-blooded and atrocious
murders in the criminal court annals of
the state. A gang of Italians, who have
been engaged in building snow fences
for the Omaha railway, under Foreman
G. F. Hubbard, became dissatisfied on
account of one of their number being
discharged. They taxed the patience
of the foreman by their actions until
last night. AT quitting time he dis
charged them all. They repaired to
on side track near the sta
ton, and seemed excited and
angry. Mr.. Hubbard subsequently
decided that he had better try and con-
ciliate the Italians and re-engage them.
With this object in view, he approached
the car, and, when within about fifty
feet, they opened fire upon him. Two
section men who were sitting on the
depot steps near by state that Hubbard
fell at the first fire. The Italians, true
to their revengful and brutal instinct,
Sprang from the car as soon as they saw
Hubbard fall, land with axes and hatchets
mutilated his dead body. After ac-
complishing this terrible crime they
turned their attention to the two
station men, who, together with a
telegraph operator, fled up the
track and took refuge in the section
house. The sheriff in Superior was no
titled of the occurrence and he immedI-
ately departed for the scene by special
train, taking with him fifteen men. The
special arrived there about IL o'clock.
The murdered man was lying as he had
fallen and
PRESENTED A CHASTITY SIGHT.
The Italians had fed and no clue
could be found at Hawthorne as to the
direction IN which they had gone. 1t
was discovered that the murdererS had
been cunning enough to take the
foreman's time-book with them, which
sent searching parties out in
in all directions and left a party at
Hawthorne to guard the boarding car in
case the murderers should return for
their effects. Vigorous efforts were
made at an early hour this morning to
cover the territory and intercept, if pos
sible, their escape. At 1:10 o'clock a
telephone call TO the Office of Judge
Rogers announced the capture of two Of
the men wanted, and Chief of Police
Rae was notified to be on the lookout
for another man who had made his
escape when his two companions were
taken. A reporter visited the county
Jail shortly afterWard and was admitted
by the deputy jailor. The two
Italians captured were both young
men and perfect types of their
race. Only one of them could talk
English. An officer took advantage of
this opportunity to see if the prisoners
had been properly searched, and the de-
velOpments were decidedly interesting.
The first things brought to light were a
razor, innumerable letters, papers and
trinkets. Besides, considerable sums
of money were found upon each. with
was of more interest and what no one
of the party expected to find, were time
checks signed by G. F. Hubbard, dated
Hawthorne, Sept. 81. The prisoners
first disclaimed all knowledge of the
affair, declaring that they came from
Ashland. The time checks were in
favor of Giuseppe Benvenut, Frank
and James Bean. The two latter checks
were found upon the person of Frank
Bean, who claims that James is
relat tive. After the checks were found
the prisoners admitted that they be-
longed to the Hawthorne gang. but de-
MED that they killed Hubbard. Ben
venut, the most talkative of the two,
claims that
HUBBARD WAS DRUNK
and came to the car with a revolver and
shot at the car, besides throwing stones,
etc. This part of the story is dis
credited by every one. A party of
Omaha railroad men visited the jail
this evening and identified the prison
ers as members Of the gang employed
upon the work at Hawthorne. The
fugitives spent the night in the woods,
and the fact that one of them stopped
to shave off his mustache and chin
whiskers, looks like an effort to conceal
his identity. The murdered man was a
carpenter by trade and was we'll known
here. He leaves a widow and family
at Chippewa Falls, where his remains
were sent tnis morning for interment.
A large force of men will guard the
county jail all night as it is likely at
tempts will be made to lynch the two
murderers who are confined therein.
A locomotive bearing a number of
officers left this evening for the scene
of the murder of c. F. Hubbard, at Haw-
thorne. A posse will join the force
from Superior, and make search for the
Italians who committed the crime.