New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-06

ANOTHER ITALIAN MuRDERe-ehe so1s-
clusion OF the outbreak of the shooting OF
Sunday evening resulted. yt sterday after
Doon in the death of one OF the most noted
of the Italians who have been concerned
in the various transformations that have ocs
Cured among this people so frequently
About halt past four o'clock Joseph Sansoni
was standing on Decatur street, between
Ursulines and Hospital streets, engaged 80
an angry alteration with man who IS
supposed to be the one subsequently are
rested. A witness named William Raham,
until within two weeks q ronstabOuc on the
Great Republic. and formerly OF Hannibal,
Missouri, says lie was star ding within ten
PAGES of the scene of the difficulty in full
view OF it; he heard the quarrel, but could
not understand it; Sansoni made some svi
IDENTIFY disparaging remark and turned trCin
the other HIan hu instantly drew II sarst
pis toll and shot him in the back the man
then ran away. but Raham saw him after
ward at a tlui5 stands wheSe- other men
came to him and warned him - keep
away in a threatening manueE. t.s was
shown the man now cooked ups and
identified him as the one who shot san.
soni Raham was detained at the se.'scss
of Coroner Grayer as a witness.
The man he identifies was arrestess he
Captain Malone at the Sicilian headquarters,
and gives the name of s5,seph rIaviolas
He was one OF the parties arrested April 81.
1872, for the killing of Joseph Aniellos n
laberer, with whom he had a dificultTs ana
Joseph Soude, o Customhouse officer, who
was shot accidentally. The grand jury il.
dicted several parties aS che time, bat the
case has never been triedo all being now at
large under heavy bonds. He was also al
rested in 1869, after being pursued and shot
by the officers, for killing the brother of
Aniello, who was killed in 1872, the latter,
at that time, although Witnessing the hom!-
eide, swore positively that Flaviola was not
the man who killed his brother, which
saved his neck. He is a small man, twenty
eight years old, of lighter complexion and
beard than his countrymen usually are, and
affects to regard the arrest as "a mistake
laughing all the time of the examination
Coroner Graver was called immediately
to the third precinct, where the body was
conveyed, and entered OF a preliminary
examination, DR.. Cooper making the
autopsy. Itwas found that the ball, a very
large one, had entered the back of the de-
ceased, on the left side, passing through
and destroying the lung, cutting the intes-
tines through the stomach and out in 'front.'
The victim must have died almost inmcs
diately, bleeding profusely internally. He
had on his person loaded tive-baIrel re-
volver. His occupation was that of q levee
specnlator. was about fortytive yeats OF
age, and had been resident OF the city
many years. He leaves a wife and three
children, who live at No. ls3 Decatur street.
Captain Malone took his little boy to the
Italian quarters, but he became afraid and
would or could tell nothing.
Unless the testimony of Ranam proves
sufficient it will be diff 'ult TO convict Fla
viola, or even learn anything further of the
vendetta which there seems to have been
between the dead Anielloss Sansosi and
himself