The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-19

was dead, score of men took aim and
fred volley of shot into his body, and
for several hours his body was left
dangling in the air.
Bagnetto was caught in the first rush
upstairs and the first volley of bullets
pierced his brain. He was pulled out
by number of stalwart men through
the main entrance to the prison and
from the limb of tree his body was
suspended, although life was already
gone.
just as soon as the bloody work was
done Mr.. Parkerson addressed the
crowed, and asked them to dispense.
This they consented to do with
ringing shout, but first they made
a rush for Patterson, and, lift
ing 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. Immense crowds
rushed from all directions to the neigh
borhood of the tragedy, while the
streets in front of the newspaper offices
were blocked with people anxious to
see the latest bulletin.
There was intense but suppressed ex-
element, and from one end of the city
to the other the action of the citizens
was applauded.
Coroner Lemoniere reached the pris-
on at 1890 o'clock and 1jewed teh
bodies of the ten men. They were
stretched out in the prison. The ver-
dict was that the men had come to their
death at the hands of unknown
parties. Sheriff Where was not
at the prison when the mob reached
there. He was hunting the mayor in
order to have the police ordered out.
Attorney General Rogers also hunted
up the mayor as did the Italian consul
but they were unable to find him, and
the work was done before the mayor or
the governor could interfere.
The leaders in the movement repre-
senting the best citizens held a secret
meeting Saturday night and discussed
the occurrence of the day and the &C
ton to be taken in the future. 1t was
decided that there should be no more
not yet been tried for the murder as
we'll as those who suborned the wit
nesses and the jury shall be vigorously
prosecuted before the courts of the city.
The jurors in the Hennessy case are
also reaping bitter harvest Walter
Livandais, a clerk in the Southern Pa
citic railway, was discharged, as his
fellow clerks refused to work with him.
j. M. Seligman, the foreman, was part
ner with his brother in the iewelry
business The brother has dissolved
the partnership. The clubs and ex-
changes of which he was member ex-
PEELED him and he sought to leave
town Saturday afternoon. A mob cap
tured him on the road to the depot, but
he was rescued by the police and has
been concealed by his friends.
Governor Nichols said that the Ital-
ian consul had called on him at his
Office Saturday morning, and that he
had asked interference and protection
for Italian subjects in the parish prison
who were threatened with mob vio-
lence. The matter had not been called
officially to the governors atten-
ton, and the call for the military
would have to come through the mayor
of the city. No such demand had been
made. When the consul called on the
governor the crowd had already started
toward the prison. Mayor Shakespeare
Says that his aid had not been invoked,
and when it reached the office it was all
over. He had not asked any aid of the
governor.
The prison officials are somewhat in
censed over the censure at their failure
to make more formidable defense
They say that they did not give up the
keys. and that when the crowd broke
in all the officers were found at
their posts. Had they fired at
the crowd it would have caused the
storming and perhaps destruction of
the prison and the sacrifice of
many innocent lives within and out
side the Jail. At all times they refused
to give up the keys until driven into
corner when they were compelled to.
Even then they did not designate the
location of any of the prisoners. The
prisoners in the yard gave this informa-
ton.
The story OF the murder is one Of the most
this country. Chief of Police David C. Hen
messy had long believed that a conspiracy ex-
listed among band of italian or Sicilian Grim
inals to take his life. He had run down
several crimes perpetrated by the
Malta and he believed that organization
which usually confines its acts of sanguinary
vengeance to its own countrymen, had re-
solved on his death. He went about armed
and was ever on the alert. Yet death came
to him unprepared. Near midnight on October
Is he returning to his home on Girod
street on foot. He had got near his own house
and was walking on Girod street. between
Rampant and Basin streets, when voley was
suddenly poured on him from the other side OF
the street. Looking quickly over, he saw
by the smoke that the assassins were
under the shelter Of old frame build
ing, and he commenced to blaze away
at them with his revolver. He could not
take aim and his fire was naturally ineffective
although there is reason to believe that he hit
at least one OF the murderous gang. He was
simply riddled with bullets, slugs and buck.
shot. He sought refuge in a neighboring house
from which he was later taken away in an am.
bulancc H. had six wounds, many of them
big. jagged punctures of the abdomen, and he
died next morning.
New Orleans was in q wild ferment next
morning and fierce threats OF violence were
uttered against all Italians. Lynching was
openly advocated and arrests were indscrmi
nate!y made. Nearly fifty Italians were
placed behind the bars. Of whom nineteen
were indicted. Owing to the presence OF a
stenographcr in the grand jury room a
motion by defendants counsel to quash the in
dictment was gtantcd, but later the same
men were indicted again. The city contrib
uted S25.O0o for the prosecution and
public feeling continued to be excited
Mayor Shakespeare was accused of losing
his head and acting from panic and the
italian canSul did his hest to show that he
whole prosecution was the result of unjusti-
fable race prejudice. The indictments were
as follows: One for murder and two for
shooting with intent to kill while lying in
wait against Peter Natal, Antonio Scaff1di,
Antonio Bagnetlo, Manuel Politz, Antonio