Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-21

When the leaders inside the prison |
got possession of the keys the inside |
gate was unlocked and the deputies in |
the lobby got out of harms way. The |
avengers pressed into the tard Of the
white prisoners. The door of the first
cell was open and group of trembling
prisoners stood inside. They were not
the men who were wanted and the
crowd quickly burst into the yard Peer
ing through the bars of the condemned
cell was a terror stricken face which
some one mistoolS for Scoffedi vol
ley was fired 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
vas locked. In a moment the key was
produced. 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
upstai IS. A party of seven or eight
quickly assembled the staircase, and as
they reached the landing the assassins
fed 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 pursuers
reached the stone court yard the former
darted towards the Orleans side of the
gallery and crouched down beside the
| l. ona1nl nd boir,rr
unarmed they were absolutely defense
less In fear and trembling they
screamed for mercy. But the avengers
were merciless Bang! Bang! Bang!
rang out the reports of the murderous
weapons and deadly rain CT bullets
poured into the crouching figures.
Gerachi, the closest man, was struck
in the back of the head and his body
pitched forward 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. Monas-
tero and James Caruso fell together,
under the fire of half dozen guns, the
leaden pellets entering their bodies and
heads, and the blood gushing from the
wounds.
The bloody executioners did their
work well, and beneath the continuing
fire Comitez and Treahina, two of the
men who had not been tried, but who
were charged jointly with the others ac'
cused, fell together. Their bodies were
literally riddled with buclxshot and
they were stone dead almost before the
fusillade was over. When the group of
assassins were discovered on the gallery
Macheca, Scoffedi, and old man Mar
chesa separated from the other six and
ran upstairs.
Thither half dozen men followed
them, and as the horror stricken asSas-
sins ran into cells they were slain. Joe
Macheca, who was charged with being
the arch-conspirator, was short, fat
man and was summarily dealt with. He
had his back turned when shot struck
him Immediately behind the ear and his
death was instantaneous. There was
no blood from the wound and when the
body was found the ear was swollen sc
J as to hide the wound, which the coroner
had great difficulty in locating. Scoffedi
one of the most villainous of the assas.
sins, dropped like log when bullet
hit him in the eye.
Old man Marchesa was the only mar
who was not killed outright. He wal
5 struck in the top of the head while he
stood beside Macheca, and although hi
was mortally wounded he fingered al
3 the evening.
y Politz, the crazy man, was locked az
, in cell upstairs. The doors were tiunS
: open and one of the avengers, taking
! , aim, shot him through the body. HI
l was not killed outright and in order Il
E satisfy the people on the outside, wht
i were crazy to know what was going OF
r within, he was dragged down the stair
and through the doorway by which thu
: crowd had entered. Half carried, hal
dragged, he was taken to the corner.
= rope was provided and tied around hi
! neck and the people pulled him up t.
the cross bars Not satisfied that h
e was dead, score of men took aim ant
e poured volley of shot into his bod,
r and for several hours the body was lef
e dangling in the air.
4 Bagnetto was caught in the first rusl
;, upstairs. and the first volley of bullet
Il pierced his brain. He was pulled on
g by number of men through the mai
: entrance to the prison, and from tn
limb of tree his body was suspended
= although life was already gone.
g. Just as soon as the bloody work wa
A. done Mr.. Par<erson addressed tn
4 CrOWu anu dSkeu bHcIu 10 ulSpcTSe
= This they consented to do with ring
IT ing shout, but first they made rush fo
e Parkerson and, lifting him bodily, SUI
l. ported him ON their shoulders Will
o they marched up the street. The aver
/. gers came back in a body to the Cla
q statue and then separated. There wa
q intense excitement. but from one en-
n of the city to the other the action of til
a citizens was applauded. o'Malley, til
~ detective who would have shared tn
D. fate of the assassins if he had bee
caught, has disappeared and is not e.
lie pected to return, and members of til
e. jury are in hiding.
ID Names of the victims: Manuel Polit
"a Pietro Monastero, Antonio Scoffedi, J'
10 seph p. Macheca, Antonio Marches
- Antonio Bagnetto, Frank Romero, Jil
u Caruso, Rocco Gerachi, Charles Trahin;
lie - Comitez.
I'd Pasquale Corte, the Italian consul
he this city, states that he called on til