Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-03-15
C0L0RAD0'S MOB.
Six People Dead as the Re-
suit Of the Attack on
Italians.
ONE OF THEM THE DRIVER.
Last Two Riddled With Bullets
After Being Safely Put
in Jail.

DENVER, March IA special to The
Rocky Mountain News from Walsen.
burg, Colo, says: Four dead bodies are
now in the hands of the coroner OF
Hueriano county as the result of the
vengeance wreaked on the italian min.
ers who were charged with the killing
OF Abner Hixon, and two more Italians
have unquestionably been riddled with
bullets by friends Of the popular saloon
keeper. Three of the four bodies are
those of Hixon's 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:
ANTONIO LORENZO, an italian citizen.
STAN1sLAU VETTAR1, intention OF becom-
ing an American citizen declared.
FRANCISCO RANCHETTO, intention OF be-
coming an American citizen declared
JOE WELsBY, % years old.
PETRo GIACAB1NO, said to have taken
out first papers
ANIONlO AfEIIO, lTSO papers Gahcn Ouo'
An Albright Job.
Though the mob commenced it's work
Tuesday evening when the sun had
been set but q little while it was not
until Wednesday morning that they
completed their work Of revenge. After
having killed three Of the suspected
homicides and brought death to the
young wagon driver, who had nothing
to do with the killing Of Hixon, the
small but determined mob waited for
the excitement to subside and then
came to the county Jail here and few
minutes before o'clock completed the
work of revenge on what they had COM
menced six hours before. Ronchetto,
who had been wounded in the breast at
the Bear creek trouble, was found
asleep in the calaboose with Lorenzo.
The guards placed at the jail, William
Smith and Henry Farrow, were playing
cards, when rap came to the outer
door of the Jail. They asked who was
there and were told that it was Sheriff
O'Mally. Without a moments. hesitar
ton they
Unbarred the Entrance
and instead of seeing O'Ma}ly they
looked down the barrels of two revolv.
ers IN the hands Of two masked men.
Experiences Of others earlier 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 Farrow and Smith
with their pistols, another pair, with
their faces hidden by 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 building,
unlocked the door wher, lay the now
trembling Italians, who felt sure their
time had come, and, in their broken
English, begged piteously for mercy.
The avengers had no mercy for
The Doomed Italians.
They turned their pistols lose on the
prisoners, who shrieked in agony as
bullet after bullet was sent tearing into
their defenseless bodies. When the
last bullet had been fired that was
thought necessary to avenge one death
with six, the. men who had done the
latest killing walked out from the Jail
into the dark night. A moment or two
later the keepers Of the two guards
backed out through the door and closed
it behind them. Farrow and Smith
now picked up their own revolvers and
fred five shots through the heavy
wooden door after the retreating men.
Summoning up courage they peered out
themselves in few seconds, and, see
ing six or eight men making off on foot
across the railroad tracks, they shot at
them until
Their Pistols Were Empty.
but without effect. They gave the
alarm, but before sufficient men for a
pursuit had gathered the men who had
done the latest deed were safely away,
and Farrow and Smith could give no
description in detail. The worst is now
thought to be over and the excitement
is fast subsiding, except among the
italian miners, of whom there are about
200 in the district, who are congregat-
ing, terror stricken, at Brummell's sa'
loon. No satisfactory motive for the
wholesale killing can be learned, except
it be that the Italians are always hated
in Western Colorado and added to the
ill feeling by killing very popular man
without apparent reason or cause.
Discovered More Shortage.
AMIGO, Wis, March 14.-Anothel
shortage of 81, 800 was discovered in the
affairs of ex-Treasurer Kennedy. De-
faulting ex.Treasurer G. 81. Lanzellere
who just returned from Waupun, stated
that about $4,000 was turned over tc
his successor and upon examination il
was found that Treasurer Kennedy had
never charged himself with that sum
A second demand will Immediately b
made upon his bondsmen.
Missionaries Begin ON Harry.
MINNEApOIIs. March 14.-Harry Hay