, 1891-03-15

around the door and crowded the little
band OF blue coats away. Capt. Lem
DAYS. was on guard at the main entrance
with a scant force OF deputies. They
were swept away like chatf before the
wind, and in an instant the little anteroom
leading into the prison was famed with
eager, excited men.
THE TERROR STRICKEN.
Meanwhile the prisoners we're stricken
with terror, for they could hear distinctly
the shouts Of the people without madlv
demanding their blood. Persons who
were charged with crimes other than
completely in the murder of the chief also
shared in the general Generalization.
Some of the Drawer among the repre-
sentatiVes OF the Malta wanted to die
fighting for their lives, and pleaded for a
weapon with which to defend themselves,
and when they could not find these they
sought hiding places. The deputies,
seeking to deceive the crowd by a ruse,
transferred the nineteen men to the
female department, aud there the
miserable Sicilians trembled in terror
until the moment when the doors would
yield to the angry throng on the outside.
GATHERING DOWN THE DOORS.
Captain Davis refused the request to
open the prison, aud the crowd began the
work OF battering In the doors. Around
on Orleans street there was a heavy
wooden door which had been closely
barred in anticipation of the coming OF
the ayenging mass. This the crowd Sc
lected 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 to the trem-
bling but determined men. Soon there
was a crash, the door gave way, and in an
Instant armed citizens were pouring
Though the small opening, while a
mighty shout went up from 10, 1000 throats
in glad acclaim. There was more resist
auce for lntrude:s, however, but il, too,
was soon overcome with a huge billet of
wood which the men carried. Then the
turnkey was overpowered and the keys
taken from him.
By that time the excitement was in-
tense; none less so when. the patrol wagon
drove up with a detachment of police
men, who we're driven away under a fire
mud and stones. When the leaders in
side the prison got possession of the keys
the inside gate was promptly unlocked
and the deputies in the lobby rapidly got
out of harm 5 way. The avengers pressed
into the yard of the white prisoners The
door of the first cell was open and a group
of trembling prisoners stood inside. They
were not the meu who were wanted. and
the crowd very quickly, though with re-
markable c1olness. burst into the yard.
Peeriug through the bars of the con
demncd cell was a terror stricken face
which some one mistook for Scaffedi. A
volley was fred at the man and he drop
ped, but none of the shots struck hun,
and it was subsequently found that he
was not one of the assassins.
The inmates OF the iail we're ready to d.
rect the wav 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 10 a moment a KEY was produced.
Then the leader called for some Que who
knew the right men and a volunteer re-
sponded and the door was thrown open.
The gallery was deserted, but an old wo
man said the men werr up stairs. A
party of seven or eight quickly assembled
the stair case and as they reached tie
landing the assassins fed down the other
end. half a dozen followed them.
Scarcely a word was spoken. 1t was
tune for action. When the pursued and
the pursuers reached the stone court yard
the former dArted toward the Orleans side
Of the gallery and crouched down beside
the cells. Their faces we're blanched. and
being unarmed, they we're absolutely de
fenseless. In fear and trembling thev
screamed for mercy, but the avengers were
merciless.
SHOT DOWN LIKE DOGS.
Bang. bang, bang, rang out the reports
OF the murderous weapons, and a deadly
rain of bullets poured into the crOuching
figures. The closest man was struck in
the back of the bead and his body
pitched forward. Romero fell to his
knees with his face in his hands, and in
that position was shot to death. Mouas
tero and James Caruso tell together under
the fire, half a dozen Ieaden pellets enter
ing their bodies and heads. The bloody
executioners did their work well, and be-
meath tho continuing fire Comete and
Trahania, two OF the men who had not
been tried but who were charged jointly
with the other accused, iell together. Their
bodies were literally riddled with bullets
and thew were stone lead almost before
the fusilade was over.
When the group OF assassins was dis
covered on the gallery. Macheca, Scoffedi,
and old man Marchesi separated from the
other six and ran up stairs. Thither
half a dozen men followed them and as
the terror-strlcken assassIns ran into their
cells, they were slain. 10. Macheca, who
was charged with being the arch conspira
tor, had his back turned when a shot
struck him Immediately behind the ear
and his death was instantaneous. Scafodi,
one of the most vIllainous of the assassius,
dropped like a dog when e bullet hit him
in the eye. Old man Marchesi was the
only man who was not killed outright
He was struck on the top OF the head
while hestood beside Macheca and though
mortally wounded, fingered all the even
ing. PolhZe, the crazy man, was locked up
in a cell up stairs. The doors we're 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 anxious to know
what was going IN within, he was dragged
down stairs and through the doorway by
which the crowd had entered Half ear
ried, halt dragged, he was taken to the
corner. A rope was provided and tied
around his neck, and the people pulled
him up to the crossbars. Not satisfied
that he was dead, a score of men took
aim aud poured a volley of shot into his
body. aud for several hours the body was
LETT dangling in the air. Bagnetto was
caught 10 the first rush upstairs, and the
first volley of bullets pierced his brain.
He was pulled out by a number OF stall
wart men through the main entrance to