Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-15

Honor does not reach his ONCE until noon
and he was not 20 be found at any OF his
regular bauAts. The Governor had not
heard Of tho uprising, and he had no time
to act, and the police force was too small
TO Offer much resistance TO the army OF
avengers. Superintendent Caster had or
dered On extra detail Of officers 10 be sent
TO the jail and the small crowd kept the
sidewalks around the old building clear
until the great multitude, swelling ell the
time like mighty. roaring stream, surged
around the door and crowded the little
band Of bluc-costs away.
PRISON GUARDS SWEPT Away LIKE cHArT'
Captain Lem Davis was on guard at the
main entrance with q scant force OF depu-
ties. They we're swept away like chat
before the wind. and in an instant the ut
tie ante.room leading into the prison was
jammed with excited men. Meantime the
prisoners were stricken with terror, for
they could hear distinctly the shouts OF
the people without madly demanding
their blood. The innocent and the guilty
alike were frightened out of their senses,
and the prisoners who were charged with
crimes other than completely in the muir
ker of the Chief also shared in the general
Generalization.
TIE Drawer PRISONERS BEo FOR WEAPONS.
Some Of the drawer among the represen-
tatiyes of the Malta wanted to die fighting
for their lives, and they PLEADED for
weapons with which to defend themselves,
and when they could not find these they
sought hiding-places. The deputies, think
ing TO deceive the crowd by ruse, trans
ferred the nineteen men to the female de-
partment, and there the miserable Sicilians
trembled in terror until tho moment when
the doors would yield to the angry throng
on the outside.
THE DOORS BATTERED IN.
Captain Davis refused the request 70
omen the prison and the crowd began the
work of battering in the doors. Around
on Orleans street there was heavy WOOD
en- door, which had been closely barred IN
authorization of tho coming of the avenging
mass. This the crowd selected as their
| best chance of getting in. Neighboring
houses readily supplied axes and battering-
rams, and willing hands went to Work 10
force an opening. This did not prove o
difficult task to the trembling but deter
mined throng.
THE AVENGERS N THE PRISON.
Soon there was O crash, the door gave
way. and in an instant armed citizens
were pouring through the small opening,
while mighty shout went up from lO'OOO
throats in glad acclaim. There was more
resistance for the intruders, however. but
il, too, was soon overcome with the huge
billet of wood which stout man carried.
Then the turnkey was oyerpowered ana
the keys taken from him. BY that time
the excitement was intense, not the less
so when a patrol-wagon drove up with q
detachment of policemen. who were driven
away under q fire of mud and stones
Wien the leaders inside the prison got pos
session of the keys the inside gate was
promptly unlocked and the deputies in the
lobby rapidly got out of harms way. The
avengers pressed into theyard OF the white
prisoners. The door Of the first cell was
open and group of trembling prisoners
stood inside. They were not the men who
we're wanted and the crowd very quickly,
though with remarkable GOODNESS. burst
into the yard.
AN ESCAPE.
Peering through the bars of the con-
demned cell was O terror-stricken face
which some one mistook for Scofedi. A
volley was fred at the man and he
dropped, but none of the shots struck him,
and it was subsequently found out that he
was not one of the assassins, The inmates
of the Jail were ready to direct the way to
where the Italians were.
THE PURSUIT.
go to the female department" some
one yelled, and thither the men With their
Winchesters ran. But the door was locked.
In q moment the key was produced. Then
the leader called for some one who knew
the right men and volunteer responded,
| and the door was thrown open. The gal
iery was deserted, but an old woman
speaking as fast as she could, said the mer
were upstairs. A party of seven or eight
quickly assembled the staircase, AID a.
| they reached the landing the assassins fled
down at the other end. Half dozen mer
followed them. Scarcely word wa'
spoken. 1t was the time for action. Wher
the pursued and their pursuers reached thu
stone courtyard the former darted towards
the Orleans side of the gallery and crouchet
down beside the cells.
THE AvRNGING EXECUTIONS.
Their faces blanched. and being unarmeC
/ Al. Iafnnaolaas N faQ'
and trembling they screamed for mercy
| but the avengers were merciless. Bang
Bang Bang! rang out the reports OF tn
murderous weapons, and deadly rain o
bullets poured into the crouching figures
Gerachi, the closest man, was struck IL
the back of the head and his body pitches
forward and lay immovable on the ston
pavement.
Romero fell to bis knees with his face il
his hand, and in that position was shot t.
death.
Monastero and James Caruso fell to
cether under the FIRE of half dozen guns
the leaden pellets entering their bodies an
heads and the blood gushing from tn
wounds.
| RIDDLED WITH BUCKsHoT.
The bloody executioneers did their wor
well, and beneath the continuing fir
Cometez and Trshinia, two of the me
who had not been tried, but who wer
charged jointly with the other accused
fell together. Their bodies were literal
riddled with buckshot. and they wer
stone-dead almost before the fusillade wa
over. When the group Of assassins wa
discovered on the gallery Macheot
Scofedi, and old man Marchesi separate
from the other six and ran upstairs.
DEATH OF THE ABoH-ooNsPmAToR.
Thither half a dozen men followed then
and as the terror-stricken assassins "a
into cells they were slain. Joe Macheci
who was charged with being the arch-cor
spirator, was a short, fat man, and wa
summary dealt with. He had his bac
turned, when shot struck him immed
ately behind the ear, and his death was IL
Simultaneous. There was no blood fro'
the wound, and when the body was foun
the ear was swollen so as to hide tn
wound, which the Coroner had great diff
Guilty in locating.
LNoERRD ALL THE EVENING.
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