Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-12-31
THE LATE TRAGEDY.

The pleasant holiday festivities were
rudely interrupted Sunday evening by
the shooting and killing of Ebony"
Ferardi by" Jack" Cronin, in the par
lor of the Fashion saloon. The occur
renee seems to have been the result of
bad feeling engendered by words spok-
en- under excitement the evening be-
fore. 1t seems that Tony was in a
rear room skylarking with some shin
gle.weavers, which ending quite rough
ly he came from the room angered
and uttered an epithet which Cronin,
who was in the bar-room, resented
This led to quarrel in which Cronin
struck Ferardi severe blow in. the
face. The latter then threw off his
coat and challenged his antagonist for
fight, when he was elected from the
building.
Probably this would have been the
ending of the affair, had not solicitous
friends warned both parties to beware
of the other. Especially was Cronin
made the frequent recipient of this
disinterested advice, coupled with the
information that the Italian was q
treacherous race and ready for the
knife-play of the assassin whenever
occasion offered. Tony was told to
look out for the logger as he bore a
quarrelsome reputation. Then it was
that one of the parties had armed him
self, and in the course of the evening
fell in with his assumed antagonist
with disastrous results.
1t was about 5 o'clock that Ferardi
entered the parlor of the Fashion sa-
loon and engaged in conversation with
Mr.. Scott, one of its proprietors, who
was seated by the stove. A few min
utes later Cronin entered, and walking
towards Ferardi drew a pistol asking,
Have you got that knife?" and firing
almost simultaneously a shot which
missed the mark. He fired two other
shots in rapid succession, both of
which took effect and either of which,
the doctors say, would have produced
death. The third shot was fred while
the victim was falling to the floor.
Cronin then deliberately walked in
front of his PROSTATE victim, looked at
him and asked "Have you got
enough~ and muttering al guess
you have" proceeded to the barroom,
and gave up his pistol to the bar-tend-
er. Mr.. Scott asked, "Jack, do you
realize what you have done?" The
answer was AZ do" To the inquiry
what he did it for, he made the re.
spouse, "What else could l do%
Do you intend to face the conse-
quences or skip out" was the next
question of Scott, and the answer was
II will surrender myself" Scott then
telephoned police headquarters and
special policeman Morrell responded,
took Cronin in charge and placed him
in the county Jail. Coroner Harmed
and Undertaken Dobbins took charge
of the body of Ferardi and moved it
to the latter's undertaking establish
ment.
Tuesday morning at 10 O'Clock,
Cronin had an examination before
Justice Dial, in the Superior Court
room, with County Attorney Mitchell
as prosecutor and Geo. C. Israel for
the defense. The testimony of Messrs.
Horr, of Centralia, Scott, Hartman,
Hyde Kirkendall, Case, c. T.. Lans-
dale, Coroner Dobbins and DR.. Red
path, substantiated the above state
ment of facts, and the accused was
committed without bail to answer to
the charge of murder at the February
term of the Superior Court.
The remains of Ferardi were in
tered Wednesday, Rev. ID. Hays, of
the United Presbyterian church, con-
Quoting the burial service at 10 A. NJ.
in Mr.. Dobbins' undertaking parlors.