New-York tribune., 1881-12-27
FOUR ITALIANS STABBED.

BLOODY AFFRAY IN THR " BARRACKS" IN MOTT
sT.-CoNFLlCTING STORIES TOLD BY VARIOUS
PERSONS
murderOus stabbing alfray took place at
G3O yesterday. in one OF the squalId tenement
houses In Mottst, In the OF Police Head
quarters Tho tenement houses. both front
and rear, from No. 3O8 to No 312 Mott-st.,
are filed wiki Italians Of the lowest order.
Every room in the buildings furnishes sleeping and eat
ing accommodations for several persons The buildings
rceE with filth and bad odOrs all times The street in
front OF these buildings is dangerous place to walk in
at night, in spite OF its close proximity to
the Central Police Station. For many years
these tenement houses have been called The Barracks
Although assaults and stabblng and shooting ARRAYS
occur In the buildings many times in year, the scene
there last night was unusually bloody. -Four Italians
stabbed, and OF them died immediately from
hls wound
The police received the hrst Information the afray
through Italian who rushed into Police Headquarters
Of 6:i5 p. M. and said. in broken English, that man
had been killed in tho Barracks" Several detectives
and patrolmcn lighting their way through
dense crowd Of Itaans in front of No. 3l2 Moitst.
where the ARRAY had begun large and muscular Italian
Of middle age lay upou a coabnT In front OF the tenc
ment house, bleeding death from knife wound in his
stomach. lie died before medical aid conld he sum
moncd 1t was learned that his name was PasQuale
Laurino and that he n tailor. He had a wife
and two children living at No. - stanton ST. Near the
coal-boN upon the sidewalk lay Pasqualc's cousin, An
ionic Lauriuo. VINO suffering from dangerous stab
wound in the back Antonio is shoemaker and lives
at No. $40 Motst. He ia twenty three years Old and
unmarried when an ambulance arrived Antonio Lau-
riuo and the body Of his cousin taken TO
the NcwYnr Hospital Pasquale Taurino. brother of
Antonio was wi'ncSs9 OF ne stabblng He was taken
to tho Mercer street Police station.
Will" mauginq aires 10 ascer ain who hadstahbrd the
two IaurnoH the polio found two other Italians IN the
Barracks suffering from wounds. NaliilOr LapadOra,
the third floor Of the huding No BIZ He had
been stabbed in the back and was bleeding proiusc-
fcara old. whose home was Mt No. pa
Mo,t.t was f34nd o III , mo- a |"GTS ERE l ng
q severe slab wound I'm the right shoulder. Lapadora
nLI Rome" were tnkch 10 inc hrrcSf NItert .ce 7lt
conveyed afterwards 90 The Now York Hospital pris
o1crs. The police also arrested Eo'arti yanosa,
fc seventeen OF Ne $50 Mo't-st and Joseph Ian'oro
twcrtv-ix Of the same number and detained them
A. usual IN ogroys amope italians, the
witncss"s tod conflicting stories Of the stab
iouio -Id jhat he was in the grocery
-,orc at No. BIG Mott-s, IN COMPANY with his conHn
and his brother and that they were leaving INg STORE
togetbe: when uis brother stabbed il' cousin was
stabbed ou the sidewalk by the same lSsai1n whom ne
dd not know ne insisted nav th"c III" ns'u n
and that the siahhng was done without cause Nhcn he
WAS confronted with Lcpadorl aud Romeo In th" police
station, he said he dd NOT kn'" lihrr oi 'e ll'hoE
it evident from the g'ram In the eyes
Of tue Italians that The recogmuon was mutual;
several ..rI hes and bruises upon uCys and bead hc
a.
iu the heat When questioned about These injuries ne
sand hc bad inflicted them himself
LaPadora said that he was -tludn. IN fout oI th'
builLg where hc lived when the hgt occurred between
.ouc Italians WHO were 10 ha. He .tt, implied
running iIr lid no, know who stabbed Aim lie
d,uird ba,iug taken any par In ne ARRAY.
Romeo said 'Iai he was standing on ~ ~"t "a'N,
ls;cuiu. 10 another Italian who wa- reading letter
from ltll.. A white man who spoke EnGl'h, ahl VIZ"
shoulder As soon as he was stabbed. hc ran into the
building whore lc WAS found hY ihe p0h' ho,nc" ~
D.. IA I.t tTfI IItII nt /
D" 'I .'' W. i ,' Ten year, oiG named joseph Rocco
who usts ~ 3O~ Mujtet. pointed To IapadoIh ~ lh'
i, ,t.,E M, a.r,y T6@ boy said tlAt Iaradora
ar-t stabbed the man who did ra7qgalo
Lanrino with PAR sr. flnn sng''' I,c,dnps lps
lad M prI him In the back The boy told hl- story IN
-trai- -ut-orwaro manner, winch was IN ma iktl CON
tr,.t tho ely, suspicious demeanor Of the other
a Ialr Of large tollor' shear. lay on
the police found hlm dyog. No other weapon was
found OF the other witnesses said mat hutcGGr
kuiie bad been used hut iheh dGsep;fs oi the '''o
blng were .o contradictory ~ to be- worthless.
Coroner. Brady aut Knox went =" me NSW-fnrE iios
pnl i,t night and questioned the "onhlel men lneS
found Az oui" Larfno 1nsl{ ii"h 'i,oS % "r IIiy T'
blood ~ ,nrs,og' 1ad 'Hl' ,HG S. "' dlcrd to
t.L" hia autpmortcm abatement before he bee me
, ,%@ Te f,e,ng .G sstcmen, dont know WHO cnt me-
Tpls other man referring To hs dead c"u'inl hId
Lryli.hmlu came with knife and cut mo J had u9
s,lrtto Tho man came 10 u7 TWICE w We "t'' Nv r1n'
10.
and then hc cumH with kuilc
Pasqulle Inuruo thr dead man, arrived ln ms 'ouh
try from Italy only lr" uays ago. ~" cousins nav
been 300 tus c.,y about three 'rarH lhcl An" ,' "'l
Illnu- who were stabbed were natives 'I t"J ,G
of -tl,ruu TIE theory 81 the ponce last h.-ul
,.54 tlt r. Ia.rluus N4d been stabbed 10y lIp"d"i'
and Epu.-u. ~ WIS thogsht that they HA were dc-
,..ilt, u ITALY aud that Oh, aelt between them gre"
nut of -Our OLD grunge. Tue story ABOUT 'hc
unknown white who was chAILcd
vlih tho atahhuE hv some or u,
IaInrs could hc verified ur an Srf-ran a"ih" ana
~ drt,,t.y,, of the Fifteenth Precinct were looAh
tnroe the Barracks n search Of further evidence At
"A late hour.