The Ordway new era., 1908-02-28
KILLED AT THE ALTAR.
Anarchist Murders Catholic pri...
During Mass.

Denver.-During the most solem,
moment OF Holy Mass at St Eliza.
beth's Catholic church. Guaranaccr,
Guinseppe Tor Giuseppe Guarnoccio,
aiias Angelo Gabrielle. spat the conse.
Grated wafer from his month win, ~,
oath and, without arising from his
,',, hees NJ tne communion rail. shot and
whiie the priest was still bowed I'm
benediction over him. The ossnssirn'
'ioi occurred ut $50 O'Clock Sunday
morning. ''''''"s
Father Leo sank upon In. com.
munion rail and died with tho s,i,
lime Latin words of the seryic. of m.
Lord supper on his lips.
The communion rail was liund with
coninuiiicants. and the church w,s
partly h'led with worshipcrs awaiting
'heir turn to partakc of the sacru.
ment
win Il cry the murderer Snronr mn
ana started down the side aisle of ,h,.
chhfch' knocking women to right and
eit. noufishinS the gun before him h.
nihn' Tor the main entrnnc. of the
church. cries OF For Gods sul.
hold him' came from the manic
strick"h people. Policeman DunIel
Cronin. who was sitting not ten feet
hack from the altar sprang after tn,
man. Hurdline two benches he was
upon the murderer when tn" latter
caught his feet In the mating and
iei' lie was up again In an instant
nut Cronin. pressing his revolver
close TO the stomach of the assassin
wr"nchcd the weapon from Tho ltnl.
lan's hands. And back near the altar
where hc had fallen, Father go law
dead. not "A spot OF blood h.smIrchiur
the robe of whit" which Ii" wore.
Gnarnaccio WAS hurried to the city
iail. Forebodinr rlmors of mob yIo
.cnce reached the ears of tn. uolIcr
ana not ten minutes after tn. Italian
had been jailed. the low rumble of
voices and the tramping of hundreds
OF feet could be heard coming mn
l.arim'r street. For II time 1t was be-.
li"ved that the crowd was simply one
n'nt on curiosity and no drmonstra-
tion was made until about 10 o'clock.
when shouts went up for Il lea Ter.
Chief of Police Delaney rushed at
once to the jail. hurried the murderer
into other clothes. told him to don "A
slomch hat. and. taking him through
the rear door OF the Jail hurried him
into his automobile and away to the
county jail. Shouts began to ars" for
the blood Of the assassin and 1t WAS
about ! O'Clock when tn. crowd real,
lied that Guarnaccio had been taken
to III" county jail. The mob then hur.
ried thither. When the mob started
for the county jail Guarnaccio was
again placed in an automobile and
whiFIaI "a n 4 irritation ,,sh.,
train for Colorado Springs was caught
Guarnaccio was In custo ly of Drtcc.
tivcs Del.uc and Sanders and Sheriff
Nisbet.
The motiv" for the crime is doubt
ful. II is said that Guarnaccio is either
simply mad assassin. or on" cool
and collected who held II prudgr
against Father Leo ever since the lat
ter was preaching In Paterson. New
Jersey. year ago.
Father Leo came to Denver from
Paterson. New Jersey. last September
and Guarnaccio came from the same
place on December 18th last. The
Italian WIS horn In Milan. ltalv. hot
bed of anarchism. and Is confessed
anarchist and socialist.
II Is reported that in the city jail.
when an Interpreter was secured. til"
a"sassin declared that he had started
out in the morning with the intention
OF killing four priests in Denver. He
said he was an anarchist and had
been teaching anarchistic doctrines
for fifteen years.
Only his arrest prevented him from
killing three more priests. whose
names he refused to divulse. Guar
nacciO stated that he did not know
Father Leo and had never seen him
before. but that the doctrines OF an
archy taught him that all priests were
enemies of the common people and
should be killed.
He boasted of having done a good
deed. and said: MY work Is done
Let the law take It's course,