Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-08-07
HIGHWAYMEN'S SHOTS CAUSE
DEATH OF YOUNG MAN
Anton Z;ni Died at Hospital Sunday
Morning from Wounds Inflicted
Saturday Evening.

Saturday night by bullets from re-
volvers il the hands of two high
waymen, who, it is believed. were
bent on holding up and robbing Ii
nj and his companion. Zini died
at about o clock the following
morning at the Union hospital IN
Ironwood.
Zini and a companion, Pedro
Assato, also of the Cary location,
had spent the c .ening in Hurley
and were on their way to their
boarding place when the shooting
occurred. They started to walk on
the street car track to the Cary To-
cation and had reached a point a
short distance east of the switch
west of the city proper when two
men appeared in front of them and
ordered them to hold up their
hands. Assato Immediately COM
piled with the demand, but Zini
hesltated a short time, according
to the story related to the author
tiles by Assato, aud the highway
men opened fire. Two shots were
fired and it is thought that each of
the highwaymen fired a shot. A
mark in a tie near where the men
were standing on the track shows
where one bullet speut its force
The other bullet went through the
rim of Zini's hat and into his chest,
ranging downward. The fact that
the bullet first went through. his
hat before inhicting the fatal wound
in his chest leads the police to
think that Zini was STOPPING over
or attempted to dodge when the
second shot was fired.
According to Assato's story, the
highwaymen ran into the brushafter
the shooting. Assato could give
no description of the men other
than that one wore a dark suit and
the other light suit and that they
appeared to be young men. He
said they wore caps, which were
pulled down over their eyes.
After being shot Zini uttered
few words and lapsed into uuCon-
sCiousness. He was placed aboard
street car and taken to the Union
hospital, where death ensued the
following morning.
In the hopes of running down
the murderers bloodhound was
brought here from Gladstone Sun
day afternoon and taken to the
scene of the shooting, The dog
took the trail and followed it into
the brush short distance, then TO
the county road leading to the Cary
location, where the scent was lost
and the dog could go no farther
The dog was placed on the trail a.
gain Monday morning and the same
performance was repeated, which
leads the authorities to the conclu-
sion that the murderers used an au-
tomobile, which they left standing
on the road and then walked thru
the brush to the street car
track and after the shooting regain
ed their machine aud made their
escape.
1t is not belived that there was
any other motive for the crime OF
her than robbery, and that the
| failure of Zini to Immediately com
ply with the request to hold up his
/ uauQS iESuAtCQ iu tnN SuOOtluS Jun
is of Italian descent, about 30 years
old. He was young man of ex-
emplary habits and industrious to
a high degree, which is attested BY
the fact that during the year and q
half that be worked at the Cary
mine he lost but one shift. He was
unmarried aud has a brother re
siding at the Cary location.
The deceased was an ex service
man and his comrades in war,
members of the local Post of the
American Legion, acted as pallbear-
ers at the funeral whicn was held
Wednesday forenoon from St.
Mary's church.