The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-13
JEALOUS MANS
DESPERATE WORK
Giuseppe Luango Stabs and Shoots
Giovaunio CalebertL.
is IN A SERIOUS CONDITION
The Probabilities Are That the
Wounded Man Will Die--After
Wounding CeIcberti, Luango Sue
ceeded in Making His Escape.
Dunmore and Scranton Police Are
Looking for Him--Injured Man Not
Receiving Surgical Attention.

In dismal Little England" at the
foot Of the east mountain, on a small
bridge crossing the Roaring Brook,
Giovannio Celeberti, Is years old, an
Italian, was stabbed and shot at 9.15
o'clock last night. He will probably
die. Giuseppe Luango, the would-be
murderer, escaped after his awful work
and the police UP to o'clock this
morning had not located him.
The shooting was brought on through
a trivial quarrel. Celeberti and Flippo
Biango, who was visiting him from
Pittston, at 8 o'clock started from the
formers boarding house on Donegal
street and walked toward Petersburg.
Biango was on his way home 20 Pitts
ton. Going down Ash street, which
runs into the mountain at this place,
the two men were passing the house
of Dominica Rotondo Biango suggest
ed that they go in and bid Rotondo
goodbye. Celeberti consented and both
men entered the house. The building
is a dingy little structure on Ash street.
In the house were a number of board
ers, all of whom had spent the day in
beer drinking. Among the men was
Luango. He and Celeberti have been
rivals for the hand of a girl in the for
eign settlement of Little England and
Luango, it seems, was waiting for
chance TO vent his hate upon Cele-
berti The opportunity came.
ORIGIN OF QUARREL.
AS soon as Luango espied Celeberti
he demanded what right he had in the
house. Celeberti responded in kind.
In their quarrel the two men, with
7 nd nTIn ut f
| side of the house and Luango was fol-
| lowing Celeberti. When the western
| edge of the bridge was reached Cele-
berti said, in Italian. II have just as
much right in there as you"
When he heard the words Luango's
| patience forsook him and he drew a
stiletto and viciously struck at Cele-
| berti. The long blade pierced the mans
back.
The other two men sprang at Luango
and held his arm. Luango threw them
| aside and with the words "If l can't
| kill you with the knife, 1 shoot" he
drew a revolver from his pocket and
fed shot at Celeberti's body. The two
men were within a foot of each other
and Luango did not take the time to
straighten his arm but blazed away as
the weapon got in range.
Celeberti fell to the bridge and quick
ly arose. Luango made a lunge at him
and pushed the wounded man OVER the
side Of the bridge and upon the dry bed
of the brook. He then walked away.
LUANGO ESCAPED.
Three men, Andrew Golfer, William
Golfer and f. ]. Milner, who were sew
eral hundred yards distant when the
shot was fired tried to capture Luanso
| but he threw them off and walked
rapidly down Ash street toward Peters
burg The other mah, except Bianco,
who heard the shots from Rotondo's
| house, also walked away. Rianco lift
ed Ceeberti from the brook bed and
assisted him toward his boarding place
In their journey the men passed over
the spot on Ash street where Rocco
Salvatore fell murdered several months
ago.
At a point on the road. one hundred
yards from the bridge Celeberti fell un.
able to walk any further. Luango left
him and started for a doctor Other
Italians carried Celeberti to his house
on a fence board.
The Dunmore police were notified anC
Chief p. ], Hlaaley and Patrolmen Bull
ger, Doll hin and Mace, were soon or
) the scene. Luango could not be found
Lieutenant John Davis, Detectiv,
John Mcir and Patrolman Louis Goer
litz, all in citizens clothes, arrived a
10 30 o'clock. Ccleberti's lay abed in hi.
: boarding house, which was uncomfort
ably crowded with men. He gave hi.
story as told here but with man.
cries of pain and appeals for a doctor
No physician could be communicate
with and up to midnight Celeberti hat
not been cared for.
LOOKING FOR LUANGO.
At a house on Ash street, wher
Luango boarded for the past min
months, Patrolman Antonio Mace, o
Dunmore, acting as interpreter for tn
: Scranton officers, brought out the fac
!, that Luango was ordinarily a peace
able man. He has been in the coun
try four years, and is 29 years of age
; He worked for the Scranton Gas an
Water company. The police secure
: Luango's hat, which he dropped dur
: ing the scrimmage on the bridge 1t /
a brown weather-stained, felt hat n
hint was obtained as to Luangos prob
> ably place of refuge. The police las
q night sent out word to all the loca
precincts and to Pittston, Wilkes Barr
and other cities to keep lookout 70
, the man. He is described as being G
' medium height, weight, $50 pound.
r dark hair and eyes, mustache, dar
clothing, white shirt.
Celeberti's chances for recovery ar
poor. The wound from the stilleto O
the right side of the neck is an inc
in width and as deep. The bullet en-
tered the abdomen Just above the righ
t groin. A hole the size of man
: thumb was made. He suffered muc
h from loss of blood, and at last report
I no physician had attended him.