Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-09-24
BLOODY IRAGkDYINa aEw YoRk.
A Mas Murders tts Fmpieyer aud thsr
ff n ~ Csmmits Suicide.


bloody tragedy Was enacted this morning
on Ian sueei, Just below Grand sUest- an
vhbch an lfalian modeli~r foNk or au-mesAd
70 tsse, the hi~ OF he employer. aud th~n com
mitteo sntcloe- Inc facts OF tbe oecprr~ncel as
saihertd BY our reporter, as fOliows On
Monday OF This week, Peter funRrl. molder
OF stainary At No les him street engaged an
OF Ristort, onerifA liberal compensation and
share OF the profJs n the bust should sell
well. ufeni, who was not employed regularly
about the worE IN le,surely manner, whereas
the utmost despatch with % WAS essential. IN
order 10 tet the bust before the public during
the present week, or by the hrsi OF next week
Af the --latest r..-
Urepi, however, only reached his work NJ n
late hour in The morning and left it early On the
last .,kausted by the indifferent manner OF
Ureni, he took him 70 tasE this morning on bis
sirI,al at TIE Workshop. Ureni, WHO he de-
terioed as haoitually insoient and hb-nstured,
Imm' diately resented this, and on hts en-
plo! er's declaring that n the bust was not
finished At once he would oreak IL. ureni
with an angry exclamation put his hand into
bis pocket and grssped hts pistol which he
was known TO have constantly about his per
eon. as well as q knife. funari, fearing that
the desperate man would shoot him. graxped
him by the arms, but In the struggle that fol-
lowed, IN which both fell on the stairs OF the
shop, the fatal shot was fired Ureni immeei-
ately took to flight, pursued by some worknen
of the shop.
The murderer ran down Elm and through
Howard and Crosby streets, a constantly in
creasing crowd and a policeman close upon
his heels When he reached the corner OF Cros-
by and Grand streets he turned round. and see
Ing the ofhcer within ak paces OF him, stopped,
drew his pistol, put n 70 his head. fired and
dropped dead without word; The body was
picked mp and carried TO the FourteuDlh Pre-
cinct Station House, under the char Iof on
Ger Hyndes, who had been In pursuit. The
body lay there this morning. Ii was that OF
man apparently about % years OF see, OF dark
complexion and dark eyes, hair and beard OF
a medium height and slender frame.
The ball had entered at the right temple,
passed obliq uely through the brain, and lodged
over the left orbit.
Funari was Immediately conveyed acros. the
street to his house, directly opposite hts shop
on Elm street His wound was found 20 be
mortal, the bullet having entered his body Just
below the left breast, passed through the lung,
and, as was thought, penetrated the percardi-
bored manner, and with q moaning sound. 1t
Is believed by the doctors In attendance tnat he
cannot survive many hours.
Ureni had lived In New York, and worked
at intervals for funari during the last ~ years.
He had at one time owned considerable real
estate in this city, which he had lost, or as he
taid, been robbed of by the lawyers. This loss
OF property had eoured his oisposi ton ana
was even said TO have touched his mind. His
fellow workmen often heard him mu ttering 70
himself. and commonly believed him subject 10
hts OF insanity. "A coroner's inc nest will.
probably, be held on the bodies Of both homi-
cide and victim this afternoon.
The two men have bad at least one serious
quarrel before this morning, but in feeling
eferYereed In mere words At the time, ana NO
serIcus consequences were feared by those
who were acquainted with the parties.
Although the breach seemed to have been
perfectly healed over, IL 10 evident, from the
after occurrences, that the spirit OF that dire
revenge which is supposed 20 be CHARACTERISTIC
OF the Italian nation, was all the time at work
in the freak Of the woeful journeymen.
The renewal of the quarrel, which a mere
accident srought on, this morning. gave the
opportunity for wreaking that vengeance ON
the fancied wrong, which unQuesuonaoly
the unhappy suicide had all the time contsm-
plated. IL may Rot be that the dead man
really had intended a deliberate assasA nation
OF his temporary employer, but he had brooded
over the real or imaginary insult until the final
spark fired the volcano, the eruption of which
has resulted so disastrously for both.
1t a curious and by no means q pleasant
coincidence that the name OF Ristor1 should be
mixed up In this unhappy affair, and that her
maichless fame should have been the remote
cause OF the anguinary death OF two OF her
own hot-blooded counuymen.-N y. Tribune