Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-15

| Ou6Ib, armed MS QepuCleS ana Ule
started on a hunt for Mayor Shake
speare. The Italian consul and Attol
ney General Rogers joined in the pul
suit, but his honor does not reach hi
Office until noon, and he was not to b
found at any of his regular haunts
The governor had not heard of the up
rising, and had no time t
act, and the police force was to,
small to offer much resistance to
THE ARMY OF AVENGERS.
Superintendent Casper had ordere,
an extra detail Of officers to be sent t.
the Jail. A small crowd of policemen
kept the sidewalks around the old build
lug clear, until the great multitude
swelling all the time like mighty roar
ing stream, surged around the door, ant
away. Captain Lew Davis was on guar(
OF deputies. They were swept away
like chaff before the wind, and in al
instant the little ante-room leading into
the prison was jammed with eager, ex
cited men. Meanwhile, the prisoners
were stricken with terror, for they
could hear distinctly the shouts of the
people without, madly demanding their
blood.
Persons who were charged with crimes,
other than completely in the murder OF
the chief, also shared in the general de-
moralization. Some of the braver
among the representatives of the Malta
wanted'to die fighting for their lives,
and pleaded for weapons with which to
defend themselves, and when they could
not find these, they sought hiding
places, The deputies thinking to de-
ceive the crowd by ruse, transferred
nineteen men to the female department,
and there the miserable Sicilians
trembled in terror until the moment
when the doors yielded to the angry
thr6ng on the outside.
Captain Davis refused the request to
open the prison, and the crowd began
the work of
GATHERING IN THE DOORS.
Around on Orleans street there was a
heavy wooden door. This the crowd
selected as the best chance of getting in.
The neighboring houses supplied axes
and battering rams, and willing hands
went to work to force an opening. This
did not prove a difficult task to the
trembling but determined throng. Soon
there was crash, the door gave way,
and in an instant armed citizens were
pouring through the small opening,
while mighty shout went up from ten
thousand throats in glad acclaim. There
was more resistance for the intruders,
however, but it too was soon overcome
with huge billet of wood, which the
men carried. Then the turnkey was over
powered and the keys taken from him.
BY that time excitement was intense,
none the less SO when the patrol wagon
drove up with detachment OF police
men, who We're, driven away under
fire OF mud and stones.
When the leaders inside the prison
got possession 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
the yard of the white prisoners. The
door OF the first cell was opened, and
GROUP OF. TREMBLING PRISONERS
stood inside. They were, not the men
who were wanted, and the crowd very
quietly, though with remarkable cool
ness, burst into the next yard. Peering
through the bars of the condemned cell
was terror-stricken face, which some
one mistook for Scoffedi. A volley was
fred at the man, and he dropped, but
none of the shots struck him, and it
was subsequently found that he was not
one of the assassins. The inmates of
the Jail were ready to direct the way 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. In moment the. key was pro-
duced. Then the leader called for some
one who knew the right men, and
volunteer responded, and the door was
thrown open. The gallery was deserted,
but an old woman said the men were up
stairs. A party Of seven or eight quick
ly assembled the staircase, and as they
reached the landing the assassins fed
down at the other end. Half dozen
followed. them. Scarcely word was
spoken. It was time for action.
When the pursued and pursuers
reached the stone courtyard, the former
darted toward the Orleans side of the
gallery, and crouched down beside the
cells. Their faces were blanched, and
being unarmed, they were absolutely
defenseless. In fear and trembling they
for mercy, but
Il
TIE AVENGERS WERE MERCILEss.
Bang Bang! Bangl rang out the re-
ports OF the murderous weapons, and
a deadly rain of bullets poured into the
crouching figures,
Gerachi. the closest man, was struck
in the back of the head, and his body
pitched forward. Romero fell to his
knees with his face in his hands, and in
that position was shot to death. Mon
astero and James Caruso fell together
under the fire OF half dozen guns, the
leaden pellets entering their bodies
and heads. The bloody executioners
did their work we'll, and beneath con-
tinuous fire Cometex and Trahinia, two
of the men who had not been tried but
who were charged jointly with the other
accused, fell together. Their bodies
were literally riddled with bullets, and
they were stone dead almost before the
fusillade was over. When the group of
assassins was discovered on the gallery,
Macheca, Scoffedi and old man Marchesi
separated from the other six, and ran
up stairs. Thither half q dozen men
followed them, and as the
TERRoR-sTRIcKEN AssAssINs
ran into the cells they were slain. Joe
Macheca, who was charged with being
the arch-conspirator, had his back
turned, when shot struck him imme-
diately behind the ear, and his death