The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-08
SLEW HIS RIVAL
Two New York Italian Bar
bers Fight for a Girl on
West Side Avenue.
LOOKS LIKE SELF DEFENCE
Newsboys Witness the Shooting
and Give the Alarm-The
Killer Captured.

While the residents in the vicinity OF
West Side and Highland avenue were
about to eat their evening meal last
night, they were startled by hearing the
report of a pistol shot, followed by two
more in rapid succession
George E. Bond, of No. 224 Belmont
avenue, and William Broadmeadow, OF
No. 1872 jackson avenue. two newsboys,
were delivering their papers at the time,
but a few hundred feet away When they
heard the pistol shots they saw man
stagger several feet and fail down,
while another thrust a revolver into his
hip pocket and ran away as fast as he
could across the vacant lots towards
De Kalb avenue.
The boys ran to T. B. ONeilPs saloon
at Glenwood and West Side avenues
and told what they had seen.
GROANING AND BLEEDING.
Some men ran across to where the
man lay groaning in pool of blood and
picking him up carried him into O'NeiPs
saloon. He was conscious and kept con-
tinually groaning.
The Bond boy was sent to the Seventh
precinct police station to notify Captain
Cox of the shooting The captain sent
an ambulance to O'NeilIs saloon. At the
same time he started out with Detective
Larkins to try and capture the assail-
ant.
When the ambulance surgeon exam-
ined the wounded man he found that one
bullet had penetrated the abdomen and
that he could not live more than few
hours. One of the other bullets had
pierced the calf Of his left leg.
FIGHTING A DUEL.
While the surgeon was dressing the
mans wounds. Captain Cox entereds the
saloon, and asked the man who had shot
him.
Between a groan aad sob the smas
replied in a faint voice nat he was SAX
vatore Morello, a barber, - wears old.
of No. S39 East Eleventh strels. New
York. and that his assaflant was lFlna
Surratto. also a barber. 25 years old. OF
No. 507 East Eleventh street. To fur
ther questions put by Captain Cox the
man said that he and Surratto had come
over to Jersey City to fight a duel over
a woman.
No weapons of any kind were to be
used. 1t was to be a fist fight, and the
best man was to have the woman.
WITNESSES CONTRADICT HIS
STORY.
He said that he was gettin~ the best
of the fight when Surratto drew : largo
dirk knife and attempted to stab L-----
He avoided the blow and was about to
run away when Surratto drew pistol
and fired three shots at him, the first
two taking effect.
Who the woman was they fought over
Morello would not say. He was them
taken to the City Hospital, where he
orrouy RI pidlu rxrorSa ond 1ied fhiS 171nrT1-
ing at half past five O'Clock.
His story differs from that told by the
newsboys Bond and Brcadmeadow. They
say that when they heard the first shot
they looked across the street and saw
man who was Morello, with a large
knife in his hand, stagger towards the
one who held the revolver.
The knife in question was found by.
Sergeant Reardon later in the evening,
several feet away from whe reMorello
fell and in an opposite direction taken
by Surratto.
THE MURDERER ARRESTED.
Captain Cox and Detective Larkins
went to New York last night and asked
Captain O'Brien to locate Suratto.
Captain O'Brfen sent Detectives Bonn
vii and Petrosino to Surrattos home
and they found him at 12:4o o'clock this
morning on the corner of First avenue
and Eleventh street. surrounded by a
crowd of his fellow countrymen.
He was taken to Police Headquarters
in New York where he is now held,
awaiting extradition.. The revolver. a
seven chambered weapon of 50 calibre,
was found upon him. with three of the
chambers containing empty cartridges.
When arraigned at New York Police
Headquarters Surratto refused to say
anything.
The name of the woman whom they
fought over could not be ascertained.
Morello's body will be taken to New
York by his friends. -.I