Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-13
MORE MOB MURDERS.
Four Italians Shot From Ambush IL
Colorado.

Four Italians Shot From Ambush in
Colorado.
A special from Watsenburg, small town
fifty-six miles south of Pueblo, Col, sent
last night, says:
A mob in ambush, at 73O this evening,
fired on a wagon containing nine Italians
who are charged with beating A. J. Hixon.
a saloonkeepcr at Rouse, a coal mining
camp six miles from Watsenburg. Sunday
last. Four of the Italians and the wagon
driver were killed. The prisoners. who had
been lodged in the Watsenburg Jail, were
taken to the coroner's inquest at Rouse
this afternoon.
At the conclusion of the session of the
day the prisoners were loaded into the
wagon and started back to Jail. At Bear
creek, a region where there is much under
brush, half a mile from Watsenburg, the
crack of a dozen rifles, presumably in the
hands of miners, rang out. Four of the
prisoners, whose names cannot be learned
on account of the excitement, were in
stantly killed. Joe Welby, a young Ameri-
can boy. who was driving the wagon, was
also killed.
The officers returned the fire, which lasted
several minutes. The NEST intense excite
ment reignS.
Watsenburg and Rouse are both off the
main line of the railroad, and attempts to
secure further details have failed.
The Hixon Murder.
The work of the mob was done to avenge
a peculiarly brutal crime. At Z o'clock
Monday morning two men, en- route to
work at Rouse, discovered A. ]. HiXon,
proprietor Of saloon, in a dying condition
about an eighth of a mile from his place of
business. Mr.. Hixon had been struck on
the back Of the head with blunt weapon
and was unconscious. He expired within
an hour.
Some ten days since T. J. Brewer, pit
boss of Rouse, imported a trained blood
hound, which was promptly summoned
The animal rushed away with the trail
and within ten minutes seized a table leg
in the rear of a saloon located half a mile
distant. On examination blood was found
on this leg. The dog then proceeded to the
saloon door, and two men, Lorenzo Danino
and Jobatto Antonio. who were discovered
therein, We're arrested. Two more men,
Pete Rosetta and Frank Anrico, were ar
rested in cabin nearby.
Admissions of knowledge of the murder
were secured from two of them immedi-
ately on their arrest, and later they di-
vulged the names of seven others who
We're with them, and charged Lorenzo
Danino with the murder. Two of the
parties had started south.
Nine Quickly Caught.
The officers were quickly in the saddle
and the entire nine were under arrest at
pm. The names Of the additional five
are: Pete Jacobini, francesca Benketto,
one Corporaila, one Milo, one Nicholai,
whose Christian names are unknown.
Threats of lynching Danino were gener-
ally INDUCED in during the day, and quite
a number of men were scattered along the
route to Watsenburg, but it was thought
there was scarcely possibility that vio-
lence would be attempted. Hixon was
rather popular with the American miners
and general Indignation prevails. He was
an Arkansan, late of Texas, and was thirty
elk or thirty-seven years of age. He is
supposed to have returned from Watsen-
burg on horseback about 10 pm, and to
i've of the murder is unknown, as Hixon
was not of an aggressive or quarrelsome
diSpoSition.