The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-10-01
Unknown Men Make Attack on
Home Of N. Sacha, Witness
in the GiIIotti Case
BIRD SHOT FOR FLEEING MEN
Men Who Had Been with sacha in His
shanty Leave Place Only to be
Greeted With Fire From Dou-
BILE Barrelled Shot Gun

Two men were peppered with bird
shot and five others SO badly fright
ened that they will not get over the
scare for weeks IN a mysterious attack
made upon the home Of Nicholas
Sacha, the leading witness for the
state in the Gillotti case now on trial
in the Circuit Court, just after seven
0 clock Tuesday evening. The two
men injured were John Juliani. an
Italian who was shot in the neck and
Frank Anreucci, also an italian, who
had three wounds, one in the right arm
and one in each leg. Neither Of the
men was badly wounded as they were
fired on with double Darrell shot gun
loaded with bird shot and the shot.
while penetrating the skin, did not
make serious wounds. Physicians at
tended the men last night and both
of them were able to be out today.
Sheriff Pfennig, Under Sheriff Villnow
and Police Officer Louise LeGlise, hrlr-
ried to- the scene Of the shooting in an
automobile, but the shooting had taken
place an hour before the officials were
notified and they found nothing but a
band of seven badly frightened men
huddled together in the shanty Of
Sacha. The shooting at once revived
the old story that there was band of
Italians in the city of which Gillotti
was the leader and which is deter
mined to protect their leader by
frightening away the witnesses in the
case against him.
sacha has been employed for years
as section foreman on the North
western road and during all that time
he has made his residence in the shanty
near Berryville He had been in Ke-
nosha attending the trial on Tuesday
afternoon and it was dark when he re-
turned to his humble home and a half
dozen of the men employed on the sec.
ton had come to his shanty to hear the
news of the trial. They had been in
the house but short time when the
house. was bombarded with a shower
of stones and bricks and one Of the
men peeping through the window of the
shack saw four men hiding in the
shadows to the north of the house,
The men were thoroughly frightened
and they crawled under the chairs and
the bed to protect themselves from
injury but the attack stopped and af-
ter a half hour Juliani and Anreucei
slipped out of the house to get cou-
plerof buckets of water. They had Sc
cured the water from a neighboring
house and were on their way back to
the shanty when they heard two shots
in rapid succession and at the same
time felt the stinging of the bird shot
as it1struck them. Dropping the pals
they ran back into the shanty and con-
cealed themselves. An hour later one
of the men in the neighborhood mott
fed the sheriff and he hurried out on
the case, but was unable to find any
trace OF tae men or to discover Their
identity. 1t is claimed that the men
did not go to Berryville on car but
that they had been seen about the
place in the afternoon and were evil
IDENTIFY waiting for the return of
saeha. If the plan had been to
ffighten Sacha out of the case it failed
Of its purpose as Sacha was in court
bright and early this morning.
The attorneys for Gillotti declare
that he had absolutely nothing to do
with the case and had no knowlege of
the attack made on the home of Sacha.
FheTother two defendants Cappella and
Catuso have been in Jail and they
would have had no chance to have any
knowledge Of the proposed assault.
The officers were hard at work ON the
case this afternoon and every possible
effort is being made to find the men
responsible for the attack.
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