The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-30
SHOT PUNCTURED.
Almost a Tragedy in
Italian Colony at
Sterling.
TWO BOYS AND A GUN FIGURED.
Body Of Young Sacco Re-
sembles a Sieve After Cir
I'M Bangs at Him.
TWO BOYS AND A GUN FIGURED.

Clinton, June 29-Lisanza Cirini, a
boy 13 years old, as he says himself,
and Is years old as those who know
him say, shot Tony Sacco, aged 20, in
Sterling, this morning at IL o'clock.
and filled Tony as full of holes as a
strainer.
Sacco was picking up cherries from
the ground beneath a cherry tree
which stands al the corner of the hieh-
way and a wide, open lane leadtIm 10
the house which young Cirinis par
ents occupy, with the family of B.
Rafe.
Sacco was brought to Clinton by some
of his friends. He was covered with
blood, and was faint from loss Of the
vital fluid, when he was presented to
DR.. ]. C. Coyne for treatment An eX-
animation showed, however, that his
wounds were more numerous and pain
full than dangerous.
There was almost a riot al the Cirini
house in the afternoon.
Sacco works for Moulton & O'Ms
honey, contractors on the reservoir.
He helps make the new road that will
skirt the reservoir, through Sterling.
There was no work today. SacCO went
out walking with a friend. From the
shanties of B. c. Kajama & Company,
where he boards, to the residence OF
the Rates and the Lisanzas, is about
a mile.
When he reached the Cirini lane he
saw the cherry tree. Rafe was near
the tree and Sacco asked Rafe if he
could climb the tree and pick some
cherries.
They're not mine." said Rafe.
So Sacco began picking the fallen
fruit from the ground.
They were not very large cherries
and not very sweet ones, but Young
Cirini was bound to defend them.
He from the house saw Sacco eating
from the handful of worm-eateh and
half decayed fruit the latter had
picked up.
The boy snatched a single barreled,
Misunderstanding shotgun, which had ap-
parently been arranged for such mo-
ment With the gun in his hand lie
crouched in the shadow Of the wall
and stalked the unconscious cherry
eater. He kept the trigger down unit!
he was within 20 feet of Sacco. He
pulled the trigger back and jumped
into sight.
LET those alone" he yelled to Sacco.
Sacco. startled by the yell, dropped
the fruit and looked up TO see the mGz-
zle of a gun staring him in the face
What do you want to shoot me
for" he said, and began to run.
There's too many Of you fellows
been coming here mornings, and you re
the last" shouted the boy.
The bang of the gun startled the
Rates. and it dropped Sacco.
When Sacco staggered to his feet
again. blood was streaming from him
in half a dozen places. There We're
wounds in his neck, in both hands nc
in his chest. The charge had re9ched
him from the left, and his face was
partly turned away to run.
At the camp Sacco was cared for as
we'll as the primitive means at hand
would permit.
In DR.. Coyne's Office it was seen that
he had a narrow escape. Two or three
shots had just missed penetrating the
throat. One shot had burned a hvid
welt across his windpipe. Another had
marked the left side Of his neck neal
the jugular vein.
The most serious wound was one over
the left nipple. A shot had penetrated
an inch and a quarter until it was
stopped by a rib. The wound made by
this shot was about two inches long
DR.. Coyne took four stitches in it. The
shot was extracted with the forceps