Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-14
SHOT IN THEIR CELLS.
Helpless Italian Prisoners Mur- dered In Cold Blood.
MASKED MEN SURPRISED JAILERs.

Another Bloody Chapter Added to the Mob
 Outrage at WaIsenburg, Colo.-May Cause
 International Complications = Governor
 Foster Wakes Up.
 WALsENBURG. Colo, March 14.-The United States may have an international complication on its hands as the result of the mob violence hero Tuesday night in which tivo Italians, who are believed to be unnatIIralized, were killed. After the at tack on the wagon party, as described in these dispatches yesterday, all was com paratively quiet until soon after midnight. About that time seven or eight men wear ing masks knocked at tho door of the jail, whcrc Lorenzo Danino. who was charged by the other Italians with having struck the blows that killed Hixson on Sunday, and the Italian wounded in the wagon at- tack wore confined.
 In answer to a question tho men said O'MallCy, the sheriff, wanted to enter As soon as the door was opened the guards found guns in their faces. Part of tho masked men then went to tho cell where the two Italians were confined and firod eight or ten shots. Each prisoner received four or five bullets. Ono died instantly, but the other lived short time in great agony
 The guards placed at the jail-William Smith and Henry Farr-were playing cards when rap Camo at tho outer door of the jail. They asked who was thore and were told that it was Sheriff O'MaIley Without moments hesitation they up- barred the entrance, and instead of seeing ONlallcy they looked down tho barrels of two revolvcrS in the hands of two masked mon. Experiences of others oarlier in tho night taught thom to obey tho command to throw down their pistols and throw up their hands
 Victims Begged For Mercy.
 While the first two mon covered Farr and smith with their pistols, another pair with their faces hidden by handkerchiefs and carrying big guns in their hands, stalkcd in. One of tho last arrivals picked up from the table the keys to the cell in the jail, and going back into tho building unlocked the door where lay tho now trembling Italians, who felt sure their timo had como, and in their broken Eng fish begged for mercy
 The avengers had no mercy for the doomed Italians In the cell with them was Frank OK, who is charged with q brutal rape. Ho was grutfly told to stand aside and slunk into a corner of the coll The masked men then turned their Dis tols on the Italians, who shrieked in agony as bullet after bullet was sent tearing into their dCfcnSclCsS bodies
 One of tho first shots must have brought relief to Lorenzo, whom the mon seemed to regard with especial hatred as the off cially declared murderer, for their lcadon balls were sont into his brain.
 Rochctto, the other man, was not so nR hIIl f h h;- head, and two toro great holes in the tho racic cavity, but instant death was not to be his good fortune for he writhed and groanrd in intense agony for as much as 2O minutes, when tho VigilantS felt their work was surely done and turned away leaving their victims Writhing in their own and in ono anuthcr'S blood, while the covering brute who had seen it all was too terrified to tutor a sound
 When tho fast bullet had been fired that was thought nCccssaTy tn avonge one doath with six, the mon who had done the latest piece of killing walked out from the jail into tho dark night.
 moment or two later the keepers of the two guards backed out through tho door and closed it behind them. Farr and Smith now picked up their own rcvolvers and fired five shots through the heavy wooden door after the rctreating mon.
 The othor five suspects had been released from custody before the mob arose Somo fears were entertained at Rouse that the Italians, who Outnumbercd tho Americans and other nationalitics, might rise up and attack their neighbors in revenge. Nothing of tho sort happened, however, nor is it much anticipated. but the feoling is so intense that should an uprising oc- cur tho Italians would bo exterminated.
 The bodies of three missing Italians have been found at somo distance from town. It is therefore certain that five men held for tho murder of Hixson have all been aSSaSSinated.