The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-23
THE SANGUNARY SIXTH
Frightful Stabbins Case I'm
Mulberry Street.
One Italian Hacks Another with a Dirk Knife
The "Raphaels and tho "Bovis''-Ths &c.
crst Society Of the Five Poinu-Dying
Statement Of tho victim-Ths
Cause Of the Quarrel

The murderous disposition OF the Italian found.
another evidence In horrible murder which was
added Yesterday afternoon to the long record OF
crime in the "Bloody Sixth" ward. About two
O'Clock IN the afternoon notice was received e the
Centre Street Hospital that the ambulance was re-
quired Immediately at the sixth precinct station
house, In Franklin street. In short time Dr.. ANA
BILE the ambulance surgeon, returned to the hospi
tai with ON Italian named Giovanni Patrilla.
An immense crowd followed the ambulance to the
hospital and remained outside for o considerable
time after Parrla had been taken to the reception
ward. When he was first seen by DR.. Amabne 81
the Franklin street station house
TEN INCHES OF HIS ENTRAILs
were protruding from frightful wound in his abs
d0men. This wound was inch and half long.
He had besides wound In the back three inches
long, and wound on the arm two inches long and
an inch deep. He had cut across the palm Of
his right hand. which almost severed his fingers
from MIS- hama. The doctor restored the entrals to
THEIR PROPER POSITION, /,
and the ambulance was slowly driven to the hos.
pital, as DR.. AmabIe feared that he would expire
on the way. On examination at the hospital by Dr..
Vandewater the house surgeon, 1t was found that
Patrilla had not very long 70 live. He was con-
scl0us when brought to the hospital and stated TO-
HERALD reporter, VINO was present when the
ambulance arrived, that he had been
STABBED BY ANOTHER ITALIAN.
named Mcnel rosa, at No. ~ Mulberry street. Pa.
trla could speak but very II Tie English and was
unable at that time 10 give distinct account OF the
occurrence. AT the Sxtn precinct station house
the reporter received the following account OF the
affair from Officer Dorcey, VINO arrested Rosa. He
was on duty in Mulberry street about one oclock in
the afternoon, wnen he was informed that q man
had been stabbed at an Italian boarding house. No.
81 Mulberry streef. me oicer hurried TO the house
and found Patra lying at the back or the hall and
groaniOg piteously. lie mad his nand to his stom-
ach and was bent uo as II
from wound in the abdomen. Ills coat was cur
In the shoulder and on tne bacH ana tie front OF
his shirt was covered WIN Diood. Ine olcer sum-
moned assistance, ana the wounded man was re-
moved on al strecner 10 lne Station house. Omcer
Dorcey was TOLD at NO. 81 tnat patriia had Deen
stabbed In The yard OF the house and The assassin
had made his escape. Ihe olicer made
THOROUGH SEARCH
The officers oh duty were informed or the occur
renee, and the specials started In pursuit.
Some time alter Parlla was brought To-
the station house Onlcer Dorcey Ihought
he would 60 BACK 10 NO. 81 and make q
through every room In the house and searched the
basement. lie about to leave the mousse when
he found that there was an old cellar In winch wood.
Was stored which ne mad not yet searched. The
place was quite darh, aud the Odcer CROPPED ao0u0
with his cluD. III the furthest corner Of the cellar
he struck
SOMETHING SOFT
when man started 10 his leet.
The officer seized nun by the arm ana drew him to
the door vi the cellar, where he was Identified by
some CG the persons In the house as Rosa, tue man
the Centre Street Hospital, where he was July iaen
tilted by Patrilla rs the man who mad stabbed him.
The scene at the identification was most extraor!
binary one. Both men
CoMMENcED TO ABUSE
each other in Italian, and finally The Doctor had to-
order the removal OF the prisoner Tor lear OF the
effect OF the excitement on ParIlla The latter Iel
back exhausted en- Ills bed when Rosa was res
moved. Neither could speak much Englsh, and
Dr. Amablle acted as interpreter
Rosa stated AZ that Time most positively that he
was no: the man who mad stabbed PatrLla. and
that he had plenty OF Witnesses TO prove II. he
said tnat tney had had some quarrel III the yard,
but that he Was not The man VINO nau STABBED HIM.
The HERALD reporter visited the Sixth preclncb
station mouse during Inc eyeang, and through the
the following statement from Rosa
ROsA'S STATEMENT.
live at No. 81 Mulberry street ana was IN tho
yard OF the house about O'Clock this afternoon.
Patrila and his vile came into the yard aud passed.
me 10y. AS ihey lid 50 PatrIlla knocked againsE
me, and when turned lie struck me Ia Cne NOUN
with
A PIECE OF STICK
which he had III his hand. (Ihe prisoner hero
showed u wound on his lIp, whicn he says he re-
ceived rom Palri.) His wife told me not to get
angry, he would Kill me. He was about to strike
me again when L stabbed him. did SO IN sell-de-
fence, as feared ne would Kill me. There has been
an old dispute between US ABOUT seventeen dollars,
which ne owed Inc for seven months We were Tor
merly such good friends that we USED 10 lend money
to eacn other.
Captain Kennedy showed the reporter the knife
which Rosa USED. IL Is q terrible looking instru-
ment with blade eight inches long. 1t has
lever at the back ny WHICH IL can be used as dirk
with the blade III an enclosed position. IL has
fork attached, aud the blade Is so shaped 10 IN
1ct a wound that could he sewed up WIN dlf1culty
by a surgeon. Rosa Is young man. TWENTY-FIVE
years OF age, ana III appearance has not much OF
the murderer. about him. Captain Kennedy IN
formed tile reporter that since the murder OF john
Brown 'Bean John" by Antonio Aratra there
are two factions or Italians at the 'Fve Points,"
and that the officers on duty
HAVE 10 BE DOUBLED
to keep them at peace with each Orner. The priso
Oncr acknowledged this, and said that one IactiOu
was called the kaphaeso and the other the Boves,,
led by a man named Jaclnto Bow. tie said that
there Is regularly organized secret society among
all the Italians the city, and tnat the Bean Johns
have broken win the parent society and are con-
sidered ''Outsiders."
At eight O'CLOCK last night Patrilla's condition
became so bad that DIR. Vandewater deemed IL
necessary to send Tor Coroner Herman to take his
ante.mOrtem statement. The Coroner empanelied
a jury, and alter Rosa was brought up to the hos
pitai Patrllla made the following statement
reside at No. ~ Mulberry street; about QUE O'CLOCK
this afternoon | was Ill the yard OF my
house with my vile, when Michel Rosa
caught her dress IN an indecent manner ana al
tempted To Insult her. / turned 10 remonstrato
with him, when he turned and stabbed mel do
not know how often. 1 now identity Micnel Rosa
as the man who stabbed me-"
The Knife was then shown to him, and he tdcntt-f
fed that also. Coroner Herman committed Rosa
10 the T0mDS to await the result OF the INJURIES.
Perlton1tiS mad set In, and at late hour nigne
Patrilla was IN dying condition.
The following witnesses In the case have been
locked up:-Louis CavanJaro, Match Mosco.
and Patrilla was pedler. ON being carried to the
T0nbS Rosa said when the woman comes she Will
tell all about II.