The herald., 1895-03-14
red intuition Of becoming an American

citizen.
Francisco Rochetto, 81 years of age,
| unmarried, citizenship intention de-
| clared.
| Pietro Glacabino, "a years old. said to
have taken out first papers.
| Antonio Zapetto, "a years old. wife ana
three children in Italy, first papers taken
| out.
The first four named are in the hands
I of the coroner.
| Though the mob commenced its work
! last evening when the sun had been set
! but little while. it was not until thls
| morning that they completed their work
of revenge, after having killed three OF
the suspected homicides and brought
death to the young wagon driver, WING
| had nothing to 10 with the killing OF
Hixon. When the three Italians captured
from the wagon at Bear Greek bridge,
where Welsby was killed, had been made
way with the small but determined MOB
waited for the excitement to subslde ana
then came to the county jail here ana
| few minutes before III O'Clock this morn
! ing completed the work of revenge on
which they had commenced six hours
| before. Ronchetto, who had peen
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 farr were
|
the outer door of the jail. They asked
who is there?, and were told that 1T
was Sheriff O'Malley.
Without a moments hesitation they
unbarred the entrance and instead OF see
| ing O'Malley they looked. down the par
rels of two reviewers in the hands OF tMo
masked men. The experiences OF others
earlier in the night taught them to obey
| the command to throw down their arms
and throw up their hands. While the
| first two men covered Farr and Smith
with their pistols, another PAIR. Win
their faces hidden by handkerchle1s am
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
adobe jai and going back into the build
| ing opened the door where lay the now
trembling Italians, who felt sure their
| time had come and i'll their broken
| English begged piteously for mercy: Inc
avengers had some mercy but none Tor the
|: doomed Italians. In the cell with them
! was Frank ok, who is charged with a
| brutal rape. q,
He was gruffiy told to stand aside and
| SUNK into one corner OF the cell.
The masked men then turned their pls-
tolls close to the Italians, who shrieked IN
| agony as bullet after bullet was sent tear.
| ing into their defenseless bodies. One or
| the first shots must have brought relief to
Lorenzo whom the men seemed TO regard
with especial hatred, as the officially de-
| cared murderer, for their leaden bullets
! were sent into his brain. Rcohetto was
| not so fortunate One bullet passed
through his head and tore two great
| holes in the thoratc cavity. But instant
| death was not to be his good fortune, for
| he writhed and groaned for as much as
twenty minutes When the vigalantes
| felt that their work was sure, they turned
| away, leaving their victims writing IN
tIor % blood
| the covering brute who had seen IL all
was too terrified to utter a sound. When
the last bullet had been fired that was
thought necessary to avenge one death
with six, the men who had done the latest
piece of killing walked out from the lail
in the dark night.
A moment or two after the keepers OF
the two guards backed out through the
door and closed it behind them. Farr
and Smith now picked up their own
weapons and fired five shots through the
heavy wooden door after the retreating
men. Summoning up courage they
peered out themselves in few seconds
and. saw 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 pursuit had
gathered, the men who had done the
latest deed were safely away and Farr
and Smith could give no description IN
detail of their recent visitors. physl-
clan was summoned and for ten minutes
| the now good sized crowd was compelled
| to watch the evidences OF Rochetto 5
death throes The work so vigorously be-
gun early in the evening was now COM
| plete, and everyone was sure that the
! three Italians captured at the bridge had
| long since met death. The first step of
the avengers was not so horrible, but they
knew what they were about. At o clock
Rochetto. Gicabnol Nittani and Capetti
were loaded into a wagon at Rouse, SIX
miles from Walsenburg, where they had
been to testify at the Hixon inquest, and
were started for the jail here.
No satisfactory motive for the wholesale
killing can be learned, except it be that
the Italians, always hated in Western min
ing districts, added to the i'll feeling they
! incurred during the general strike a year
ago, by killing very popular man with
out cause CT reason. Never before IN the
| history of Walsenburg has there been such
intense excitement as commenced last
/ night and is gradually dying out. Tonight
everyone is confident that the trouble is
over and that this peaceful town will re-
| sumo the even tenor of its way and be al
| lowed to drop from the unenyiable
newspaper notoriety which this last oc-
currence has gained for it. Last night
people thought the road to
/
sure death, and even the most
| hardy men declined to venture out. Today
! the quaint wooden bridge where several
| lives were lost was curiously examined.
| The locality Is peculiarly favorable one
! for such an attack as was made there
! last night. The creek itself amounts to
| but little, but the road slopes down to it
! for third of d mile on either side, 50
that when picking the point for attack
/ the men knew that the sound OF their guns
would not reach this place though it is
! but short distance away. The little red
! adobe succeed Jail one block from the de-
| pot presents a gruesome sight. tits but
| one story in height and has lost It's epider-
mis- in many places. The door faces the bus
| mess portion of the city and through the
| heavy panels five bullet holes made by
| Smith and FAIR arms, suggest struggle
within. A peep through one OF the small
windo on the side of the Jail tells the
| tale. Sticking out from beneath two
! blankets two pairs of coarsely shod feet
were to be seen, and here and there a tiny
riyuet of blood which had run from the
| bodies. The killing had occurred in the
| inner room where the cage is located.
! Entering the door a glimpse at the faces
was sufficient. AFFECT terror was shown
III every lineamcnt.
All day long the main court room at
the county building held the coroner :
| Jury who first looked into the death OF
| Wesbv, reaching the verdict stated, and
| then Investigated the killing of the two
/ men at the iail this morning and folin1