Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-03-21

there was heavy wooden door,
which had been closely barred, in an
ticipation 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 to force an opening.
This did not prove a difficult task.
There was a crash and the door gave
way and in an instant armed citizens
were pouring through the small open
ing, while mighty shout went up
from 10000 Threats in glad acclaim.
There was more resistance for the
intruders, however, but it, too, was
soon overcome with the huge billet !
of wood which stout man carried.
Then the turnkey was overpowered
and the keys were taken from him.
BY that time the excitement out
side was intense; none the less so
when patrol wagon drove up with
a detachment ofpOlicemen, who were
driven away under a fire of mud ard
stones.
The inmates of the Jail were ready
to direct the way to where the Ital-
ians were. $50 to the female de-
partment," some one yelled, and
thither the men, with their Winches-
tiers, 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 vol
unteer responded and the door was
thrown open.
The gallery was deserted, but an
old woman, speaking as fast as she
could, said the men were up stairs.
A party of seven or eight quickly as
cended the staircase, and as they
reached the landing the assassins fled
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 pur>
suerS reached the stone court yard
the former darted towards the Orleans
side of the gallery and crouched
down beside the cells. Their faces
blanched and being unarmed they
were absolutely defenseless. In fear
and trembling they screamed for
mercy. But the avengers were mer-
CHESS.
Bang, bang, bang, rang out the re-
ports Of the murderous weapons, and
a deadly rain of bullets poured into
the crouching victims. Gerachi, the
closest man, was struck in the back
of the head and his body pitched for
ward and lay immOvable on the
stone pavement. Romero fell to his
knees, with his face in his hands, and
in that position was shot to death
MonasteriO and James CarusO fell to
: gether, under the fire of half a dOzer
guns, the leaden pellets entering
their bodies and heads, blood gush,
ing from the wounds.
The bloody eXecutiOners did thei
work well, and beneath the cOntinu
ing fire Comitez and Trahinda, TIVE
Of the men who had not been tried
5 but who were charged jointly witt
the other accused, fell together. Thei
, bodies were literally riddled will
, buckshot and they were stone deaC
before the fusiiade was over.
e When the group Of assassins wa
: discovered on the gallery, .Macheca
: Scaffedi and old man Marchesi sep
e arated from the other six and ran u
: stairs. Thither half a dozen men fol
/: lowed them, and as the terror.stricke
: assissins ran into cells they wer
g slain.
r Joe Macheca, who was charge
i with being the arch-cOnspiratOr, wa
e a short fat man and was summaril
0 dealt with. He had his back turne
when a shot struck him Immediate
d behind the ear and his death was ir
q Simultaneous. There was no bloc
}. from the wound, and when the bod
= was found, the ear was swollen
o hide the wound, which the CoronC
d had great difficulty in locating.
d Scaffedi, one of the most villainol
= Of the assassins, dropped like a lC
IS when a bullet hit him in the eye. Oh
2. man Marchesi was the only man WI
was not killed outright. He W;
n struck in the top of the head viii
Ie he stood beside Macheca and, thong
/ he was MORALLY wounded, he hinge
20 ed all the evening.
L. POleitz, the crazy man, was locke
| nm in N COLL un.StoirC Tho door w