Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-03
nrEc1AI TELEGRAM TO THE p1srAToHr

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPAToH.l
NEW YORK, February "A party o
convivial Italians came up out of Nicols
Gerardo's saloon, in the basement of III
Thompson street, just before dark to-day
after having spent several hours helping
Gerardo to violate the excise law, Alfonso
Sllvestro,a a young shoemaker, spied a moody.
looking fellow countryman coming up the
street, and decided to have little fun at his
expense.
Perhaps if Silvestro had known that the
roughly-dressed stranger had loaded re-
volVer In his hip pocket he. would have
postponed his jest. He halted the stranger
and asked him for S. The stranger, in a
tone that indicated that he did not
relish the pleasantly, said he did not
have S5, and would not loan it to
anybody he was unacquainted with, even if
he had it. Then he pushed past the crowd.
Before he got out of earshot he turned and
called Silvestro a name. Silvestro went up
to him and the two exchanged light blows.
FELL IN HIS TRACKS.
The stranger drew his revolver, and shov-
ing the muzzle almost against the shoe
makers face, fred. The bullet entered Sill
vestro's left eye, and pierced the brain. He
fell dead on the sidewalk. The stranger
threw the revolver into the basement of II
Thompson street, where lad named George
Murtha found 1t, and ran southwark toward
Houston street.
A score of dwellers in the tenements in
Thompson street saw the murder, and many
of them ran out to help Silvestro's friends
run the murderer down. Policeman McNee-
ley was standing on the southslde of Hous-
ton street, near Thompson. He heard
the shot. He saw the fugitive coming his
way. In moment the Italian was strug-
CLING desperately to get away from the blue
coat
Captor and captive rolled on the sidewalk
together, but McNeely was the stronger,
and got his nippers on the Italians left
wrist. Then the plucky cop got into more
trouble. A mob of mixed nationalities
surrounded him and yelled "Lynch himP'
xiii him! One man, presumably a
friend Of the murdered man, struck the
murderer in the face, knocking out several
of his teeth and cutting his lip.
REINFORCED IN TIME,
The policeman tried to keep the crowd
back with his club, but was unable to 10 it.
They were closing IN on him and his prisoner
when Detectives Lavercove and O'Brien
came along and drove the vengeance seekers
back. The Italian was taken to the Prince
street station. He said he was Angelo Callu-
clio, a laborer, q years old, 443 East One
Hundred and Thirteenth street. Captain
Thompson ordered the policeman to take
Callucio to the Mercer street station, as the
murder occurred and the murderer was cap
tured in Captain Brogan's precinct. Cap
tain Brogan complimented McNealy, and
told MIN he was entitled to the prisoner, so
he was returned to the Prince street station.
Callueio said he thought silvestro was
going to draw a pistol when he fred. Sill
vestro had an old, unloaded and worthless
French revolver in his pocket. The men
were entire strangers to each other Neither
was married
Another Italian murder occurred in this
city to-day, also the result of hasty quar-
rel. Rafael Reca was stabbed to death bv
Gerardo Dombobosse in shanty on One
and Seventieth street.