The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-15
THE AssAssINs IN SIGHT.

them. Scarcely a word was spoken. IL
was time for ection- When the pursued aud
pursuers reached the stone court yard the
former darted toward the Orleans side Of
the gallery and crouched down beside the
cells. Their faces were blanched,
and being unarmed they were abso-
lutely defenseless In fear and
trembling they screamed for mercy, but
the avengers were mercilesa Bang, bang,
bang rang out the reports of the murderous
weapons, and a.deadly rain,of bullets poured
into the croucaing figures. Gerachi, the
closest man, was struck in the back of the
head, and his body pitched forward and lay
inmovable on the stone pavement. Rlmero o
fell to his knees, with his face in his hands,
and in that position was shot to death.
DIED SIDE BY SIDE.
Monastero aud James Caruso fell together
under the fire OF half dozen guns, leaden
pellets entering their bodies and heads and
the blood gushing from their wounds. The
bloody executiouers did their work we'll, and
beneath the continuing fire Cometz and
Trahinia, two of the men who had not been
tried, but who were charged jointly vita
the other accused, fell together. Their
and they were stone dead almost
before the fusillade was over. When the
group of assassins was discovered on the
gallery Macheca, Scatfedi and old man
Marchesi separated from the other six and
ran upstairs. Thither half dozen men
followed them, and as the terror-stricken
assassins ran into cells they were slain.
MACHECA's DEATH.
10 Macheca, who was charged with being
the arch-conspirator, was a short fat
man and was summarily dealt with.
He had his back turned when the shot
struck him immediately behind the ear, and
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blood from the wound, and when the body
was found the ear was swollen so as to hide
the wound, which the coroner had great
difficulty in locating.
Soaffedi, one of the most villainous of the
assassins, dropped like log when a bullet
hit him in the eye.
Old man Marchesi was the only one who
was not killed outright. He was struck in
the top OF the head while he stood behind
Macheca, aud, though he was mortally
wounded, he fingered all the evening.
CRAZY PoLITz's DEATH.
Politz, the crazy man, was locked up in a
cell upstairs. The doors were flung open
and one of the avengers, taking aim, shot
him through the body. He was not killed
outright, and in order to satisfy the people
on the outside, who were crazy to
know what was going on within, he
was dragged Downstairs and through the
doorway by which the crowd had entered.
Half carried, halt dragged. he was taken to
the corner. A rope was provided and tied
around his neck aud the people pulled HIM
up to the cross bars. Not satisfied that he
was dead, score of men poured q volley Of
shot into his body aud for several hours his
body was left dangling in the air.
A CORPSE HANGED.
Bagnetto was caught in the first rush up
stairs and the first volley of bullets pierced
his ain. lie was pulled out by number
of stalwart men through the main entrance
to the prison aud from the limb of tree
his body was suspended, alth ough life was
air eady gone.
Just as soon as the bloody work was done
Parkerson addressed the crowd and asked
them to diSperss. This they consented to
do with ringing shout, but first they made
a rush for Parkerson, and, lifting him
bodily, supported him on their shoulders,
while they marched up the street. The
avengers came back in body to the Clay
statue and then departed.
Those killed are:
MANUEL PoLIRTZ.
PIETRo MoNAsTRo.
ANTONIO SCAFFEDI.
JOSEPH MACHECA.
ANTONIO MARCHESI.
ANTONIO BAGNETro.
FRANK ROMERO.
JIM CARUso.
Rocco GERACHI.
CHARLES TERAHIN.
-- CoMETZ.
THE CORONER ON THE SCENE.
Coroner Lemonnier and his clerk Henri
| la Barre, reached the parish prison at about
| 1890 o'clock. The coroner viewed the first
bodies of those lying in the yard. His
| Jury was impaneled as follows: w. B.
Lob
W. J. Gahan, Will Porter.
the body Of Rocco Geracci was viewed.
| He had only one wound in the cnest. He
| died from hemorrhaga.
Peter Monastro had gunshot wound in
| the back of the head and bruise on the
| neck anteriorly.
Charles Terahin had ten gunshot wounds
| at the chest anteriorly, one gunshot wound
on the left side of the face, a gunshot wound
on the back of the left shoulder and in tbs
| back.
MASS OF WOUNDS.
Jim Caruso had numerous gunshot
wounds in the anterior portion of the body
| from his head to his knees: one wound iu
the face, one in the neck, nine in the chest
| twelve III the abdomen, one in the groin
| five in the right thigh and four in the left
| thigh.
1ordetto Comitez had gunshot wound
| in the chest, anteriorly; one gunshot wound
! on the top of the head and four in the right
side of the body. He was bruised by a
| gunshot wound on the left side Of the back.
| All these were buckshot wounds.
| Frank Romero, alias Nine~Flngered
| Frank. had gunsnot wound on the head
| above the forehead, and his face was pow
der-burnt. All the shot lodged in the head
| and skull, which were completely crushed
This completed the investigation ill the
yard.
The coroner, his jury and the members OF
| the press next went upstairs, and in the gal.
lery of the condemned cells an inquest was
held on the bodies there lying. Antonio
Scaffedi had a gunshot wound of the brain.
| A ball entered above the right eye.
cLUBBED TO DEATH.
Jos0ph P. Macheca had not a single
! bullet wound. His face was swollen and
| his flesh bad already assumed blush tint
| The coroner examined the body and stripped
It of every stitch of clothing. Although
| the dead mans coat and vest and shirt
| showed bullet holes, mis- undershirt was not
perforated. This was conclusive proof that
| no bullets had entered his body. 1t was
! evident that Macheca was dubbed to death
] with the butt end Of pistols and rifles
| However, the coroner postponed the exam.
| ination of Macheca's body to later hour
| MARCHEsI STILL ALIVE.
He then turned to Marchesi, who wa
found to be still alive. The mans chin and
fore muscles of tie neck moved slowly and
laborlously. He was just as good as dead,