The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-01
Fierce BATTLE At JESSUP'
Ono Nan Killed and Three Wounded
In a Serious Manner.
ALL KINDS or WEAPONS USED
II Ii Probable That Ono of the Injured
Men viii Die lie IL q Brothcr of
the Murdered Man-Stories
Arc Conflicting.

Fierce yslls OF men. the shrieks Of O
woman. followed By the reports OF q re-
volver and the groans of injured men
awoke the people of the village OF Jss-
sup. In Wtnton borough. yesterday az.
ternoon al $50 to the realization that a
desperate battle was being fought In
their midst.
The scene OF the conflict was the
house OF Angelo Carzinto. on the Back
road. and while the battle lasted u re-
volver. two razors and u clasp knife
and s,lletto seem to have been used
with desperate effect.
Mike Demarko. aged 81, married, was
stabbed through the base of the heart
and died almost Instantly. He leaves u
wife and one child.
Nicholas Demarko, brother Of the
murdered man. % years Of age and
single, was shot through the right arm
| above the elbow and slashed across the
right shoulder and over the left nipple.
His wounds are of u dangerous nature.
and he suffered greatly from loss OF
blood. Dr. Sickler, who was called to
attend the wounded men, does not
think Nicholas can recover.
Pascon Parretto was cut from the
top Of the head to the left ear. The
wound Is an ugly one and bled pro-
tusely. He has another cut across the
chest. where the breast bone saved his
life' and third on the left thigh, which
Is laid open for Il distance Of three
inches.
John Corello suffers from wound in
the right shoulder, which DR.. Sickler
says Is a knife wound. Corello insists
that he was shot. He suffers great
pain from the wound.
fOur Men Arrested.
Immediately after the battle Burgess
Sheridan went before Justice of the
Peace NJ. +. Kelly and swore out war
rants for the arrest of Angelo Carzinto,
Pascon Parretto. John Corello, Domin-
lex Dernao, Charles Warder and Peter
Parette on charge of murder. The
frst-named four were ARRESTED, butt
Warder and Parette succeeded I'm MAX
ing their escape and started In the d.
rection of Olyphant, where they live.
Coroner Kelley was notified and went
to Winton last night, where he empan-
eled the following jury: Il. C. Melvin,
p. i. Griffin, 4. f. McDermott, John
Ward, p. +. Godfrey and John Lam
gan. After viewing the body the coro-
ner adjourned to the Office Of Justice
of the Peace Kelly. where the testimony
of Mr.. and Mrs. Angelo Carzinto, Dom
mick Dernao and Pascon Parretto was
heard. With the exception Of Carzin-
to. none Of these could make themselves
understood with any degree of certain
ty in English and there was no trust
worthy interpreter available.
The coroner adjourned the inquest
until 3 o'clock this afternoon, when a
post mortem will be held on the dead
man which IS expected to reveal cuts
other than the one which caused death
as we'll as pistol shot wounds. All Of
the participants tell different stories
OF the occurrance, but so far as could
be ascertained last night the following
is true statement of the facts:
Cause of tho Unpleasantness.
Carznto, in whose house the trouble
occurred, lives on Back road and keeps
boarders. one Of whom Is Pascon Par
retto, a cousin Of Mrs. Csrzinto. That
lady's husband is Jealous of Parretto.
alleging that he pays her too much at
tention. The Carzintoes We're married
last January. The husband on Sun
days and after his daily labors shaves
some Of his countrymen.
Yesterday morning ne performed that
service for several of them and during
the afternoon the men whose names
have been mentioned above assembled
as his house. Five OF them were from
the vicinity Of Naples and the others
from southern Italy. A dispute
arose and Pascon ParretIto ran upstairs
to his room and obtained his stiletto,
a long. desperate looking weapon.
When he again appeared on the first
floor Of the house hostilltles were re-
sumed In earnest. CarzInto put Mike
DemarkO out OF the side door and was
treating Parretto the same way when
the latter stabbed and killed Demarko,
who fell dead at Carzinto's feet.
Nicholas Demarko rushed to his
brothers defense, armed with a clasp
knife. which ne ran into Parretto's
breast. In the meantime two blows
from Parretto's weapon laid the shoul-
der and breast Of Nicholas open and he
fell bleeding profusely.
warder Had a Revolver.
Charles Warder, who was armed with
a revolver. seems not to have been idle
during this time. One shot from his
weapon. entered the arm Of Nicholas
Demarko. and Corello says that when
he was forced into chair by Carzinto
and told to keep quiet. Wsrder de-
liberately came up and shot him in
the shoulder.
Parretto denies doing the killing, and
saws the wounds he a,,fforod ,,,a,,o q.