The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-03-25


harms wav The avengers pressed
into the yard Of the white prisoners.
The door Of the first cell vas open
ard groups Ct trembling prisoners
stood inside. They We're not The men
who were wanted, and the crowd very
quietly, though With remarkable cool
ness, burst into the yard. Peerlng
through the bars 3f tnr condemned cell
was a terror stricken t"rr Which some
one miStook for Sc:ilr;!rS y voiley
was fired a. The tuaH aE; he dropped.
but none of the shot struck hlm. IL
was subsequently found out that he
was not one Of the aSSasslnS. The IN
mates Of the Jail were ready to direct
the wav to where the Italians were.
go to the female department. some
one yelled, and thi5her the men with
their Winchesters ran. But the door
was locked. In moment Il g key was
produced. Then the leader called Tor
some one who knew the right men and
volunteers responded and the door
was thrown open. The gallery was de
serted. but an old woman speaking as
fast as she could, said the men We're Up
stairs. \ party Of seven or eight quick
" ascended the stair case, and as they
reached the landing the assasslns fled
down at the other end. y half doZsn
followed them. Scarcely Il wore. ~aS
spoken. it was time for action. When
pursued ant! their purSuerS reached the
Stone court yard the former darted to-
ward the Orleans side OF the gallery
and crouched down BESIDE the cells.
Their faces blanched, and being uu-
armed they were absolutely defenseless,:
In fear and trembling they screamed
for mercy, but the avengers were mpr-
ciless. Bang, bang, bang. bang. Re-
ports Of murderous weapons and
deadly rain of bullets poured into the
crouching figures.
Gerachl, the closest maD, was struck
in the back of the head and his BODY
pitched for ward and lay immoVable on
the stone pavement. Romero tell 10
mis- knees, with his face IN his hands,
and in that position was shot to death.
Monastaro and James Carusa fell to-
eether, under the fire of half dozen
guns, the leaden pellets entering their
bodies and heads and the blood gusl-
inc from their wounds. The bloody
executioners did their work well, and
beneath the continuing lire CometeZ
and Frahina, two Of the man VINO had
not been tried, but who were charged
Jointly with the other accused, ttl TO-
gether. Their bodies were literally rid
died with buckShot and they were
stone dead almost before the tusllade
was over. When Graupe, one OF the
asSassins, was discovered Oh the gallery,
Macheca Scaffedi and old man Mar
chest separated from the other SIX and
ran ,lp stairs. Ihither a half dozen
men followed them, and as the terror
stricken assassins ran into their cells
they were slain Joe Macheca, VINO
was charged with being the arch con-
spirator, was a short. fat man, ard was
summarily dealt with. He had his
back turned when the shot strack him
immediately behind the ear and his
death whS instantaneous.
PolitZ. the crazy man, was locked up
in a cell up stairs. The doors were
flung open, and one OF the avengers,
taking aim, shot him through the body.
He was not killed outright, and IL or
der to satisfy the people on the outside
who were crazy to know what was
ro;-,o- ~, ,vitbin he WAS 6r3CTpQ down
soIns stairs on and y l' +hronrh the doorway by
v, which the crowd had entered. Half
c.rriad half draocpd he was taken to
40 40 ooroer ~ roDe was nroyided and
t;aa t;tU W. oronnd HE necE and the people
nnI1eI mi HIM I'm - a crossbar. Not sat
SIZED thai he was dead a score of men
nonrod :. voI,pv of shot into his body,
5snd for cover.I honrs his body was left
dnno1;,c. Jnu 49, ~ ~ 10 or
e'"1S IGs+ 3s CON astha work VAS done
usv % 'ooIt nJd~asced GO e,i +ho crowd and
1iaS 9in1.Iuu So t,Gt ~ disnorSs This Iiev con-
tos asAeo 'teL to a. W v.itp rinoin9 shonts but
6ret tbev made a rnsh for Parkerson
nnS n-S ,;ftaa hin, hod,Iv and supported
i'IN %;rn nn Their shoulders while they
marched mn the street. The avengers
can,e w mack in = hobv to Clav street
] where +hev disnersed Immense crowds
-nshed from ali directions to the reigh-
horhood Of the tragedy. while the
straaf !; in front of the newspaper Off
cee m T-ora hlocLed with people anxious
to SEQ the latest bulletins.
There M W was intanse Suppressed excite
ment but from one end Of the city to
the other the action of the citizens was
snnlauded O'Malley. the detective,
who wonld have shared the fate of the
assossi,,s m.,o T if be had heen caught has dis
t'T a%neorod and is not eypected to return,
apgI apg +he n,an,bors of the iurv are in hid
.,nu .,,n 0ttT tEhn +-,osnbora has i,een consid-
arsh,n ens ,,,,rnsd ~ 5nd thonrh there is a
hi9 crowd on Canal street to night the
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