Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-08-14
THREE ITALIANS FOUND HANGING
IN A SHED.
Cowardiy Murder of Two Men
Caused the sudden Necktie
Party.

Hahnville, La, Aug. s.-There was a
triple lynching here Just before IL O'Clock
last night. and the bodies Of three Italian
murderers we're found swinging from the
rafters of a shed near the court house
this morning. One of the men is Alfonso
Saladino. who foully assassinated Jules
Gueymard, at Freetown, last Tuesday
night, and the other two were Decino
Sccoro and Angelo Marcusso, who lnur-
dered an old Spaniard on the Ashton
plantation. near Boutte station. some
time ago.
Ever since the murder of Gueymard
this parish has been in a fever heat of
excitement over the affair, and even on
the first night after the murder it was
with great difficulty that the sheriff pre-
vented the lynching of Saladino. He
spirited him away in the woods and kept
him there over night, and then the next
day took him to the new Jail in Hahn
vilAe In the meantime the evidence
grew against Saladino, and the feeling
correspondingly grew in intensity.
About 80 O'clock last night the mob
which had concentrated on the out
skirts of the town began to move on the
jail They captured the old negro guard,
and by the vigorous use of axes, with
which they were we'll supplied, soon de-
molished the jail and cell doors and took
the prisoners out and executed them,
Saladino was charged with the murder
of Jules Gueymard, one of the prominent
planters of that section. The murder oc-
CURED on Tuesday night at Freetown,
in st. Charles parish. just a short dis
lance from the river bank. Gueymard
was in the yard with several friends
playing cards. while awaiting the arrival
of a boat with some freight. When the
whistle of the boat blew, Gueymard
arose to go to meet it, and as soon as
he was a. few feet away from his party
a shot was fired. 1t was from a shotgun
loaded with all sorts of MISSILES and the
load struck him full in the breast, almost
tearing his head from his body and kill
ing him instantly, besides wounding Rob
ert Espanard, a New Orleans engineer,
in the arm.
Search for the murderer was made but
he was not found The shot was fired
from behind a tree at the edge of the
road, and the assassin escaped through
the thick growth. Suspicion pointed to
the Sicillian, who bore a bad character.
He had threatened Gueymard's life be-
cause the latter testified against him in
a suit brought because Saladino endeav-
ored to defraud his New Orleans credi-
tors. A visit to his house revealed his
shotgun, which he said had not been fired
in three months. One barrel was found
freshly discharged. While he was not
told of the charge against him, he dis
claimed taking life.
Later on an old italian woman arrived
at his place and confessed that Saladino
when he returned home that night, said
81 got him. Saladino would have been
lynched that night but for Sheriff Dry
who hid his prisoner in the woods.
The crime for which the other Two
Italians were hung was the wanton and
cowardly murder of an old Spaniard on
the Ashton plantation, near Boutte sta
ton. The incentive to the crime in this
case was that the old Spaniard was their
rival in the business of gathering moss.