The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-14
IS WORSE THAN BUTCHERY.
MURDERERS SHOT DOWN WHILE
 CONFINED IN THELR CELLS.

Men Walk Up to a Jail Declare They Are
 Deputy Sheriffs and When They Enter
 the Prison They Commit Most Brutal
 Murder DefenseIess Men-Volleys
 From Winchesters Poured Into Them.
 Denver, March 19.--Abner J. HiXon, a temperance saloonkeeper at Rouse, was attacked Sunday while on the road from Walsenburg to Rouse and knocked from his horse by blow on the head. Workmen going. to the covered Hixon with his skull fractured. He was unconscious and died two hours later. There was no clue to the perpetrators of the crime, but blood hound was put on the scent and the struck a trail that led the pursuers to the rear of a saloon half a mile away. The dog bayed and rushed to table standing in the rear room. An examin- alton of the table revealed fresh blood stains. Lorenzo Danino and Jobatti Antonio, who were found in the room, were arrested. They continued to the neighboring cabin, where Pete Rosetta and Frank Aurico were found. The quartet of Italians made many dam aging admissions of knowledge of the murder and upon close questioning the names or seven others implicated were divulged Danino was charged with being the chief conspirator. Horsemen secured the surrounding country and hxy 4 Nto 10 oF al 1a suspected Italians were under arrest.
 The coroner's inquest was held yes terday and at it's conclusion the prison CTS were committed to jail and started for Walsenberg in the keeping of off cers. The prisoners were in charge of Deputies Earl Danford and Charles Harrigan and Driver Joseph Welsby.
 They started after o'clock in the ev- ening. When on a bridge less than a mile from Walsenberg six masked men rode up, ordered the driver to stop, the deputies to hold up their hands and the prisoners to get out. The horsemen then began shooting, frightening the horses, which ran into a wire fence. Driver Welsby was killed by an acci- dental shot and four of the prisoners fell dead in the road. Three of the Ital- fans escaped, their names being Antonio Gobetto Stanis Lovotti and Francisco Rosetto. Gobetto, it is said, was the one who held Hixon while Lorenzo Da- nino struck him twice on the side and back of the head with a table leg One Italian was wounded and was taken to Walsenberg and put in jail there. Da- nino had been started from Rouse be- fore the other prisoners and he was al- ready in the jail,
 After the attack on the wagon party all was comparatively quiet until noon to-day. Then seven or eight men wear ing masks knocked at the door of the jail. Tn answer to a question the men said Sheriff O'Malley wanted to enter As soon as the door was opened the guards found guns in their faces. Part of the masked men then went to the cell where Danino and the wounded italian, whose name was P. Jacobini, were confined and fired eight or ten shots Each prisoner received four or five bullets One died instantly, but the other lived a short time in great agony,
 It Is reported that the same mob, thirsting for more bloodshed, later took out of jail German charged with rape and killed him. During the excitement two other prisoners escaped.
 The names of the four Italians killed on the road are unknown. The motive for the killing of Hixon has not yet been disclosed