The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-05-23

had entered his back just over the
left kidney.
Homer Stone, who had been shot,
kept his feet until the excitement was
over, and then sat down upon the
platform. The attendants came to his
aid and carried him into the main
building and lay him upon an impro-
vised cot.
There were about 65 men in the
brush factory at the time Of the shoot
ing, and the greatest excitement pre-
vailed. The prisoners ran'in every di-
rection, but none made any effort to
escape.
1t was atefirst thought that this was
part of plan for wholesale delivery,
but there was nothing to indicate this
except some sensational statements
made by Gigante after he had been re-
moved to an upstairs room.
AN EXCITING SCENE.
The scene at the workhouse was a
frightful one, after the affair was over.
1t was all done so quickly and the
results were so fearful that everyone
lay in, the rear. of the brush factory
dead, blood and brains oozing from the
CHASTITY wound in his head.
Homer Stone sat gasping for breath
at his stand in the front shop, and as
he was carried into the main building
a trail Of blood was left.
Upon the floor lay Gigante, the cause
of all the trouble, held by guards and
others, he too gasping for air and al
most fainting from his wounds.
DR.. A. V. Smith, the regular work.
house physician, and Drs. E. ID. and
A. c. Brant, were called and rendered
surgical aid. Stones wound was
found as described. The doctors ex-
pressed wonderment that the bullet
had not entered the heart. 1t is
thought that 1t lodged in the left lung.
He was removed to the hospital in the
workhouse, where everything is being
done for HIS recovery.
Gigante's wounds are considered ia
tai The load of shot in his knee is
not serious. The guards all have their
revolvers loaded with one or two shot
cartridges in order to subdue prisoners
without inflicting fatal wounds, when
necessary to shoot.
The other wounds are both serious.
The one from the front passed directly
through the stomach. 1t was little
to the right of the center and just
below the ribs. The other shot, which
entered the back, If two bullets enter
ed his body, went directly in over the
kidney.
The doctors made no effort in either
case to locate the bullets.
There is difference of opinion as
to how often Giganti was shot. Some
of those who saw the occurrence
claim that but one bullet enered his
body, and that 1t passed clear through
him. The doctors insist that two bull
let's struck him, and that when the
one that struck him in the stomach
was shot the revolver was close
enough for the powder to burn the
clothing of the man. The bullet holes
in the clothing show that tho direc-
tion Of the bullets through the cloth
was inward.
Gigante insists that Guard Bowman
shot him in the back and that the bull
let hole in front he shot himself.
II shot myself here" he said, point
ing toward the shot in the abdomen.
Il wanted to shoot myself in the head,
but could not make it. Bowman shot
me in the back and in the knee"
Gigante lay upon the cot moaning
and complaining for want OF air.
"Ob, my stomach" he cried, time
and again.
1T was Bowman that I wanted. I /
had it in for him." he declared.
Then again he would plead for those
about him to send for his father and
mother, apparently not realizing that
his father had been dead for many
years.
When asked why he had done such a |
thing, he insisted that he had been put
ND to it by other prisoners.
The statements of Gigantic are not
credited by the authorities. His stor-
les are too conflicting. He has been
ever since he has been in
the workhouse to kill some of the
guards, and Guard Andrew Wielandt
stated that Tuesday he attempted to
get revolver out of his pocket. The
guards carry their revolvers in their
hip pockets. and when they have their
coats of, as Klotz had, the guns are
easy to get hold of.
While the doctors we're working
over Stone and doing what they could
Tor him he asked the doctors whether
Gigantic was dead. The doctor said,
No, but he ought to be-" but Stone