The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-03-20

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selected rs their best chance of getting
in. Neishhoring houses readily
supplied axes and batlpring rams.
and willing hands went To work TO
force an opening. This did not prove
a difficult task to the trembling but
determined thrOng. Soon there was
Il crash, the door gave way and in AN
instant armed citizens were pouring
through the small opening, while n
mighty shout went up from ten
thousand Ihroats in glad acclaim.
The avengers pressed into the
yard of the white prisoners. The
door OF the first cell was open and a
group OF trempling prisoners stood
were wanted. and the crowd very
quickly. though with remarkable
GOODNESS, burst into the yard. Peer
ing through the bars of the con.
dpmnel cell WAS terrOr-Strickpn
face which some one mistuLk for
Scoffrdo. A Yoiley was fred at the
man, and he dropped, bat none of
the shots struck him, and it WAS sub;
spuuPntly found out that he was moi
one of the assa-sn+. The inmates
/ OF the itil were ready to direct the
way to where the Italians were.
Go to the female department ~
some one yelled, and thither the men,
with their Winchesters, ran. But
the door was locked In moment
/ the key was produced. Then the
( leader called for some one who knew
the right men, and a volunteer
responded and the door Was thrown
open. The gallery was deserted. but
! an Old woman, speaking ns fast as she
could, said the men were upstairs.
, a party of seven or eight quickly
assembled the staircase, and as they
reached the landing, the a-sa%Sins
fed down at the other end. Half a
dozen followed them. Scarcely
: word was spoken. 1t was the time
/ for action. When the pursued and
their Vur-uerS reached the stone
/ courtyard the former darted toward
! the O leans side Of The gallery, and
crOurho d down beside the cells. Their
faces hlanrhpd, and, being unarmed,
they were absolutely def useless. IL
fear and trembling they screamed
for mercy. but the avenger, were
mprrites. Bang, bang, bang rang
out the reports of the murderous
weapons, and dpa lily rain of buI-
lets poured into the crouching fig-
urpS.
Gnr&chi, the closest man, was
struck in the back Of the head and his
body pitched forward aud lay i'm
movable on the stone pavement.
Romero fell on his knees, with his
face in his hand, and in that position
WAS shot to death.
MonasterU and james Caruso fell
together under the fire of halfa dozen
guns. the lcaden pellets entering
their bottles and heads, and the blood
gushing from the wounds.
Tine bloody pXecutioners did their
work well, and beneath the continu.
ing fire Com"tex and Trahinia, two
Of The men who had pot been tried,
but who were charged jointly with
the other accused. fell together. Their
bodies were literally riddied with.
hur&shot, AMI they were stone dead
almost before the fus!ade was over.
When the group of as>as-ins was
discovered on the gallery. Macheca.
Scotfrdi and old man Marche1i sep
araied from the other six and ran up
stairs.
Thither half dozen men followed
them, and AS the terrOr-stricken as
saS-inS ran into cells they were slain.
Jn Macheca. who was charged with
being the arch-conspirat0r, was a
short, fat man. and Was SUNNI triiy
dealt with. He mad his back turned
when shot struck him immediately
behind the ear, and his death was
Instantaneous. There was no blood
from the wound. aud when the body
Wa, found the ear was swollen so as
To hid the wound. which the coroner
had grra, difficulty in locating,
A DYING PRISONER HUNG.
Scotiedi. one Of the most villian0us
Of the as>assins. dropped like a log
when n bullet hit him in the eye.
Old man MtrcheSi was the only man
who was not killed outright. He
WAS struck in the ton of the head
while he stood beside Machec,, and
though he was mortality wounded, he
fingered all the evening.
PolIiZi, the cry man. was locked
up in cell upstaiis. The doors
were flung open. and one oftheaven-
gers. taking ann, shot him through
the body. He was not killed out
right, and, in order to satisfy the