Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-14
AND ANOTHER BLOODY CHAPTER
ADDED TO THE wALsENDuRG MUIR
DDRoUs FEUD.
Masked Men visit the Jail and shoot
Two More Italian Prisoners TO
Denth-others May lie iNilled-A
cois-piooded Piece of work.
DENVER, March 10.

DENVER, March 49,
A special to the Rocky Mountain
News from walsoenburg, Colo, says;
Four dead bodies are now in the
hands of the coroner of Hueriano coun-
ty as the result of the vengeance
wreaked last night on the Italian min
ers who were charged with the killing
of Abner Hixson in most brutal man
ner at Rouse last Sunday night. ~ few
hours will almost certainly bring the
discovery of the corpse, ana every man
on whom there is the slightest suspi-
cion of completely in the killing Will
meet with summary and frightful pun
ihment,
Three of the bodies are those of Hix-
sons alleged assailants; the fourth is
that of Joe Welsby, who was driving
four Of the Italians to jail in wagon
when he met his death. The dead are
one first four being in the hands of the
ccIoEeD:
ANTONIO LORENZO, declared by
the coroner's jury to have struck the
blow which crushed HiNGon's skull and
caused his death; "a years OF age, ur-
H.hIIlSus an llAlldH IillEtu.
SrANISLAUS NETTARI, 8" year.
I'D married, wife and three children m
Italy; Intentions of becoming an Amerl-
can citizen declared.
FRANCISCO EANCHETTO, 81 years
cid, unmarried; intention OF becoming
an American citizen declared.
JOE WGLSBY, % years old. unmar-
ried.
PlETRO GIACABINO. "a years old
young son living here; said to have
taken out first papers.
ANTONIO ROCHETTO. "a years old
married, wife and three children in
lazy; first papers taken out.
Though the mob commenced its work
last evening when the sun had been
set but little while, 1t was not until
this morning that the work of revenge
was completed. After having killed
three of the suspected homicides and
brought tine death Of the young wagon
driver who had nothing to do with
the killing of HiXsOn. When the three
Italians captured fro mthe wagon at
Bear Creek bridge, whore Wells6y
was killed, had been made away with,
the small but determined mob waited
for the cNcitment to subsidc and then
came to the county jail here and few
minutes before l o'clock this morning
completed the work of revenge they
had commenced six hOus before.
POnChetto, who was wounded ut the
Bear Creek trouble, was found asleep
in the Calaboose with Lorenzo. The
guards placed at the jail, william
Smith and Henry Farr, We're playing
cards when II rap came at the door of
the jail. They asked who was there
and were told that it was Sheriff
O'Malley. Without a moments hest
tatiOn they unbarred they door and In
stead Of seeing OMalley they looked
down the reyolvers in the hands OF
masked men.
Eexperiences of others early in the
night taught them to obey the COM
mand to throw down their pistols and
| throw up their hands. While the first
two men covered Farr and Smith with
their pistols another pair with their
faces hid behind handkerchiefs and
carrying big guns in their hands stalked
| In one of the last arrivals picked up
| from the table the keys to the cell in
| the jail, and going back Into the build
| ing, unlocked the door, where lay the
now trembling Italians, who felt sure
| their time had come and begged pite-
| ously for mercy, The avengers had no
| mercy for the doomed Italians. In the
/ cell with them was Frank ok, who Is
charged with a brutal rape. He was
! gruffly told to stand aside and skunk
into corner Of the cell. The masked
men then turned their pistols loose on
the Italians, who shrieked in agony
as bullet after bullet was sent tearing
| into their defehseless bodies.
one OF the first shots must have
! brought relief to Lorei 20, whom the
men seemed to regard with especia
| hatred, as the officially declared muir.
derer for their leaden balls were sent
into his brain. Pochetto was not Sc
fortunate. one bullet passed through
his head and two tore great holes In
the throatic cavity, but instant death
was not to be his good fortune, for he
wrlthed and gToaned in agony for as
much as twenty minutes, when the
vigilantes felt that their work was
we'll done and turned away, leaving
their victims writhing in their own anC
In one another's blood. while the cover.
Ing brute who had seen II all was toe
terrified to utter a sound When tn,
last bullet had been fired that wa,
thought necessary to avenge one death
the men who had done the killing walk
ed out into the night.
A moment or two later the keepers
OF the two guards backed out through
the door and closed 1t behind them,
Farr and Smith now picked up their
own revolyers and fired five shots
through the heavy wooden doors af-
ter the retreating men. Summoning
up courage, they peered out themselves
In a few seconds, seeing six or eight
men making off on foot across the rail
road track, and shot at them until
their pisotls were empty, but without
eject. They gave an alarm, but before
suHieient men for a pursuit had gath
cred, the men who had done the latest
deed were safely away and Farr ana
tall