The Portland daily press., 1897-12-27
AGAIN THE MAFiA.

AGAIN THE MAFiA.
An italian Killed in Boston Had Said
He Was Doomed.
! Boston, December 25.-The North End
was the scene of terrible tragedy to-
night, and as usual the italian quarter
| furnished the participants. Cuiseppi
Cattula, A years of age, was almost in
stantly killed, his head being severed
nearly from his body with long cary
ing knife; Savario Quartarreo, another
Italian, "a years of age, Is lying dead at
the City hospital, with deep wound
over the heart, and Saverio Corebi, 36
years old, the supposed murderer, is also
at the hospital with two Lad knife
wounds in his leg.
| Cattula and his wife live at No. 342 1-2
Hanover street, where they kept board
| ing house. Several acquaintances called
there tonight and there was trouble of
some kind in the house, the nature of
which cannot be accurately ascertained
at present. According to Cattula's wife,
Corebi was not one of the party at the
house. He had boarded with them up
to two weeks ago, when he left after hay-
| ing had some words with Cattula. After
the trouble in the house tonight, they
went out on the sidewalk, and there
Corebi WAS encountered. Nobody can tell
how the fight started, but in an incredi-
| bly, short time there was a general mix
up and at least one knife did execution.
Several witnesses says that Corebi
and Cattula clinched and that they saw
| Corebi strike what proved to be the death
blow, while others declared that another
Italian, Bruno Caccoeino did the cutting.
| The latter ran away after the fight and
has not yet appeared to give his version
OF the affair
| When Corebi was confronted by tie wit
nesses who accused him he admitted that
he cut Cattala, but said that he only did
it after the latter had cut him, and that
he acted in self-defence.
| Quartarreo was found on the sidewalk
near the corner Of Charter and Unity
street, propped up against the side of a
building, bleeding profusely from q
wound over the heart. He was taken to
police station No. l, and thence ordered
to the City hospital where he died at
late hour. 1t is not known who dealt the
| blow which wounded him, although the
police have suspicion that francesca
Blatti, fellow boarder, who is held as
o witness, and who was mixed up in the
general scrimmage, may be the man.
| Corebi was found on the sidewalk near
the place where Cattula's dead body was
| lying, crippled by two cuts On the lower
part Of his left log. He was removed to
| the police station and later sent to the
hospital.
The battle attracted large crowd of
excited Italians and 1T was almost i'm
possible to get q connected story from
any of them. Cattula was well known at
the North End. and Police Captain Cain
said he was frequent caller at the station
Some four or five months ago he told
! the captain that he had had trouble with
a man in Italy and that he had been
| threatened with death since he came to
this country. The captain advised him
| to swear out a warrant for the mans
arrest, but this Cattula refused to do,
saying that he would be murdered surely
then. Those statements form the ground
for q suspicion that the murder may have
| been planned by the italian Malta and
| that the old feud in the mother country
was the indirect cause Of the tragedy.
MURDERS STILL A MYSTERY.
| Boston, December 26.-There seems to
be little information cleaned by the po-
lice today to clear up the mystery of the
double murder at the North End last
night The dead men are Joseph Cato
lari, a boarding house keeper at $40
Hanover street, and Savario Quartario
Capt. Joseph Dugan Of Holyhead quar-
ters today took evidences of the witness
es found of the tragedy, but as usual with
this type of murders, little headway was
made.
Bruno Cappooino. who boarded at Cato.
lari's house. and Sayario Quartario an
other boarder, who Is one of the dead
| tn ba oe+ ~,
others, and about $50 trouble began in
some unexplained way and the party
went to the street.
There they encountered Savario Carebi
who formerly boarded with Catolario
about two weeks ago, after having some
dispute with him. A general mixuE
ensued during which knives were used
freely. In the row Catolario, Quartaric
and Carebi were stabbed, the head Of
Catalorio being almost severed from his
body Quartario, who was found sitting
in doorway on Hanover street, dice
soon after being sent to the hospital
Corebi was found concealed in house
on Webster place and sent to the hospital
where it was stated last night that hC
would hardly be able to leave in week
Cappocino was also run down anC
locked up, and he and Corebi will be
charged with the.murders of the Other
two. As is usual in cases of tragedies
among the Italians, it is stated that the
trouble which ended in the killing really
was the result CT feud originating ir
Italy.