Show ITALIAN IS SLAIN IN MERCUR CAMP f c Antonio Pedro Shot Down by Fellow Mine La LaS I S borer S FOUR ARRESTS EFFECtED t TOWN IN FEVER OF EXCITE EXCITEMENT EXCITEMENT MENT AS RESULT OF MURDER A All n t of among a gang of Italian mine laborers ut at early Saturday mornIng Antonio Pedro an Italian dena shot through the head Jim Carosa Carola Jo Jot t ph und and Nick Carusi all Ital fn are under arrest charged with corn eom In the murder It appears that Gmt the five men with some others began drinking In the Golden Gate Gaten n aloon oon an Italian resort at a late hour on Friday nJ night ht There was consider considerable able quarreling among them but not suf to give cause for un uneasiness or to afford the slightest hint ot of the dark tragedy which vas to follow About iii fn the morning Pedro left the saloon in with some ot of hIs companions headed for Geyser Gulch the Ital inn fan quarter of the camp and lIt gung gang left shortly afterwards and the next when the entire camp was by a brick fusillade ot of shots S Officers on the Scene Marshal Culliman and the night marshal William Brough were at by the firing und and DS as quickly as Ios made their way in the direction of the shots shote Arrived at the tho Gulch they found the wIndow of the house ot of Pe Pc dro shattered and upon Investigation dis the lifeless form orm of the victim In a pool of blood on the floor flie orfIce wore were quick to act mid and In Inn n 11 few minutes had succeeded In break ng down the doors of three or four shacks In the tho neighborhoOd and arrest Jug the participators in the tho saloon 1 el l Every ver man was armed to the teeth One Jfe had a shotgun full fully loaded and lying beside his bed and all had revolvers ot 01 knives The men after afler a brief show or of resistance S and were quickly locked Up Yesterday the entire camp was In a fever o ot excitement following the kill ing Not a single Italian showed up for Work In the mInes out of a possible ThO fIr nr oo employed A hurrIed Inquest was before Judge Dunlavey and n a ver of death at the hands or of three or more Italians In a quarrel which in n a saloon was returned The or of the victim will be brought to Salt Lake Latta Monday for burial find and the of the trial of the tho men men under arrest will be set within a few days das rhe obtained at the inquest to show that the man had been killed lW by u IL single bullet fIrd from a Browning automatic pistol similar to that taken taleen from one of the th prisoners The bon ball entered the tho left e eye e and lodged in the tho back of the head hend Fol the shooting Drs Dra Thayer and Ber Berry ry ven c called but the tho man hud had been lad dad some time upon their arrIval Tn rn their opinion death had been beon almost lri In Instantaneous Is Black Hand Implicated Accounts of the trouble which led up tn ti 01 the shooting vary but the opinion Is that the quarrel was between and the victim and that it had bad Us Its origin In the days when both men pre residents of sunny Italy It is not known positively that either ot of the men I wre pre members of any Italian secret so but rumors of Black Hand oaths and Mafia o obligations were wre rife In the limp ImP yesterday Everything was quiet however and there Is nothing to ate any uny further outbreaks On account ot of the recent closing down downOr Or lr th the roasting department or of the Con Mercur mine the principal mine r f the camp Mercur has been quieter for the tal past few tew weeks than nt at any time it in Its history Only rt a small percentage of the former hundreds of men employed cd have been working since before Christ Christmas inns mas and the spirit of the Italian element been dally daily growing more restless of the camp give great credit to ii and Brough for 1 their heir action in making the nr ar arrests rests und and securing tho alleged criminals |