Telegram-herald., 1891-03-17
IT WAS HORRIBLE.
Further Details Of Saturdays
Burchsry at New Orleans
The List Of the mcb's Victims Mum.
bers eiesen-itair Sure TO De-
mand PREPARATION.
woHx OF rHE HIorKns-

the horrors OF saturday. Every thing
Is peaceful aud the usual quiet prevails.
Many persons visited the scene of the
| lynching Sunday but only a favored
few were admitted inside the prison.
| The damage done the prison will at
once be repaired and the door which
was shattered by the mob viii be re-
placed by . solid wall In defense of
their action in offering no resistance 70
the mob, the prison officials say that
they did not give up the keys
and that when the mob rushed in they
found every officer AT his post. Had
the officials fired into the crowd il
would have probably caused the total
destruction of the prison and no doubt
also the sacrifice of many innocent
| lives.
There were eleven men killed, In
stead of six, as at first reported. The
correct list is as follows:
Joseph Macheca, Manuel Polits, An
tonic Marchesi. Antonio Scoffedi, An
tonic Bagnctto. Rocco Gerachi. James
| Carsso, Loretto Comitez, Pietro
| Monasterio. Louis Trahina and Frank
Romero. The boy, Marchesi Matranga,
and Incerdona, who had been acquitted,
were spared.
When the mob had broken down the
doors and entered the Jail, the assas-
sins were found upstairs in the fe-
male department. A party of seven
or eight quickly assembled the stair
case 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 time for action. When the
pursued and their pursuers reached the
stone courtyard the former darted
toward the Orleans side of the gallery
and crouched down beside the cells,
their faces blanched, and, being un-
armed, 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 u deadly rain of bullets
poured into the crouching figures.
Gerachi, the closest man, WIS struck
in the back of the head and his body
pitched forward and lay immovd le on
the stone pavement. Romero fell to
| his knees with his face in his hands,
and in that position was shot to death.
Monastcrio and James Caruso fell to-
gether under the fire Of half a dozen
guns. the leaden pellets entering their
bodies and heads. and the blood gush-
| ing from the wounds
The bloody cxecutioners did their
work well, and beneath the continuing
| FIRE Comitez and Trahina, two of the
men who had not been tried, but who
were charged jointly with the other &C.
cused fell together. Their bodies were
literally riddled with bullets, and they
| were stone dead almost before the fusil-
| lade was over. When the group of
assassins was discovered on the gallery
| Macheca, Scoffedi and old man Mar
| chest separated from the other six and
ran upstairs.
Thither half dozen men followed
| them, and as the terror-stricken assas-
sins run into cells they were slain.
10 Macheca, who was charged with be-
| ing the arch conspirator. was short,
| fat man, and was sunmarily dealt
with. He had his back turned, when a
shot struck him Immediately behind
the ear, and his death was instantane-
| Gus. There was no blood from the
wound, and when the body was found
the ear was swollen SO as to hide the
wound, which the coroner had great
difficulty in locating.
Scoffedi. one of the most villainous of
the assassins. dropped like rag when
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 he
stood beside Macheca. and though he
was MORALLY wounded he fingered all
the afternoon.
Politz, the crazy man, was locked up
in a cell upstairs The doors were
| flung open and one of the avengers, TAX
| ing aim, shot him through the body.
He was not killed outright, and in
order to satisfy the people on the out
side. who were crazy to know
what was going on within, he
was dragged down the stairs and
through the doorway by which the
crowd had entered. Half carried. half
dragged he was taken to the corner.
A rope was provided and tied around
his neck and the people pulled him up
to the cross-bars. Not satisfied that he
was dead. a 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.
Barnetto was caught in the first rush
upstairs and the first vollcy of bullets
/ pierced his brain. He was pulled out
/ BY n number OF stalwart men through
the main entrance TO the prison and
| from the limb of a tree his body was
suspended. although life was already
| gone
Just as soon as the bloody work was
| done Mr.. Parkersson addressed the
crowe,i. and asked them to dispense
/ This they consented TO do with
ringing shout but first they made
rush for Parkersou. and, lift
ing him bodily. supported him on
I their shoulders while they marched
up the street The avengers came
back in body 70 the Clay statue, and
then departed
There was intense but suppressed ex-
element. and from one end Of the city
10 the other the action Of the citizens
YVES sppisuded.
Coroner Lemoniere reached the pris-
on At 1880 o'clock and viewed teh
bodies Of vi. ten Haen- They were
stretched out in the prison The YER
I diet was that the men had come to their
death at The hands Of unknown