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Show K t i CASKET FALLS; BODY ROLLS OUT GREWSOME ACCIDENT OCCURS AT DURIAL OF ITALIAN NEAR MT. WASHINGTON, O. FUNERAL ENDS IN A RIOT Mourners, Frenzied by Awful Sight, Imagine Corpse Wat Dumped Purposely and Considerable Fighting Results. Cincinnati Tho funeral of Gamnro Allleo, a young Itnllan. at tho Fruit Hill cemetery, near Mt Washington tho other day, resulted In n riot and Clem Davis, who owiib a general hUiio ut Fruit Hill, wns foiced to llee for his life and barricade the doors or his storo to escape the fury of nenrlv 100 Itnllan laborers who sought Ills life Allleo wns killed some days aim by Frank Cramer, n resident or Moscow Cramer escaped, and fooling between tho Americans and Italians has been vory4itter since the shooting. The man died at the hospital, and afior waiting soino time to hoar fiom Italy from the young man's parents It wnH decided to bury the body nt Fruit Hill cemetery temporality. Almost every Italian In the vicinity attended the obsequies. Tho burial ritual had been read and tho body wns being lowered Into tho grave by the soxton or the cemetery mid D.ivls had been called by tho soxton to assist In the bnrlal. Just as they began to lower the body tho strnp which Davis was holding hold-ing broke nnd the colllii went to the bottom of tho grave with a einsh Tho whole Bldo or tho casket was broken out und tho body njlled under tho casket. With n wild yell n dozen rrlends of tho dead mnn simultaneously started nrtor-Davls. They accused him or ho-Ing ho-Ing friendly to Cramer, who killed tho man, and, seizing n number of clubs, they stnrted nrter him. Davis, however, proved Heel or root ami outdistanced out-distanced his puisuers Ho ran Into his storo nnd barricaded the doors, while tho Irato Italians tried In vain The .Corpse Rolled from the Casket. to gain nn entrance. They hurled clubs nt tho building nnd loudly yelled that R they did not kill him then they would nt sonio ruturo time. Tho on-tiro on-tiro settlement wns nrouscd nnd ninny Amcrlcnns gathered near tho Hceno, but no one sought to quell tho excited mob. After keeping DavlB n prisoner In his storo for several hours the Italians Ital-ians returned to tho grnveyard They llxod up tho broken coflln and replaced tho corpse They fastened tho lid of tho box nt tho bottom of tho grnvo nnd, seizing spndes which woro to hnvo been used by tho soxton nnd Davis, shoveled tho dirt Into tho grnvo. Tho soxton lied whllo tho Italians woro chasing Davis |