The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-29
STABBED IN
ABDOMEN
NOrdOzzi is Probably Fa-
tally Wounded.
PANNESE HIS ASSAHANT.
Rossi cuf in the Rack While Trvinr
PANNESE HIS ASSAHANT.
Rossi Cut In the Back While Trying
to Save His Friend.
MAN WHO USED KNIFE ESCAPED.

For several weeks the classic region
of Federal Hill inhabited by the Ital-
ians. has been comparatively quiet. and
the police have had very little TO do on
Sundays. but yesterday the armistioe
was ruthlessly broken. and double
deed OF blood took place. the conse-
quence being that Gerardo Nordozzi
and Michael Rossis are at the Rhode
Island Hospital suffering from serious
knife wounds, and Michele Pannese. ac-
cused OF doing the stabbing is a fug.-
tive from justice.
How the affair commenced seems to
be shrouded in the usual mystery which
colony, when none but Italians are wit
nesses. and 1t is really astonishing how
little theaverage Italian is able to re-
member when questioned either by the
police or a reporter. The fracas took
place on Lilly street, near the corner OF
Spruce street. shortly after 5 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, when Gerardo
Nordozzi, who is said to be sober in
dustrious and inoffensive man, who
lives at the corner Of Acorn and Cedar
streets, was standing in front OF "a
Lilly street, talking TO a number or
men.
Some OF the men were engaged In
dispute and Nordizzi was trying to
bring about peace between them and
there did not appear to be any unusual
excitement, when suddenly, and with
out any warning. the crowd separated.
and Nordizzi went to the ground and q
- - tssw V.0
Then II was seen that Michele Pannese
was stabbing Nordixzi in the abdomen
with knife. Rossi, who lives in the
some house with Nordozzi, came down
the street on a run to help his friend,
but Pannese saw him first and stabbed
him viciously in the back.
BY this time the place looked like
small slaughter house, and Pannese,
with his bloody knife still in his hand.
stood for a minute looking on his ham
diwork. Suddenly he was pulled into
the entryway of the adjacent house
and the door was closed to avoid pur-
suit. Pannese ran through the entry.
out into the backyard into Spruce
street, and then turned into Sutton and
West Exchange streets, and when last
seen he was making rapid headway In
the direction Of Tooleville, where so
many Italians find refuge.
The wounded remained in the street
until Officers King and Clifford reached
the place and telephoned for the ambul-
ance. Officers Johnston and Healey,
the night police of the locality. and
Sergt. Mowry came before the ambul-
ance carried the men away. They got
description of the wanted man from
some of the people of the locality, and
that was all. Nordozzi was uncon-
scious. and Rossi claimed to know the
man by sight, but not his name.
When the men arrived at the hospital
Nordizzis case was seen to be serious,
and Coroner Lincoln visited the hospit-
al to take an ante-mortem statement.
The man, however, could not speak at
that time. and the coroner returned
about / o'clock this morning. when he
was able to secure statement. Nor
dozzi said that the man who did the
cutting he knows as Michele, which is
the only name by which he knew him.
He did not know where Michele lives,
and could give no information concern
ing him, except that he had seen him
in that neighborhood before. Nordozzi
thought he would de, and sent for the
priest of the Italian church on Knight
street after making his statement to
the coroner.
Pannese. who is still at large, is about
| 35 years old, about five feet eight or
nine inches tall, of stout build, and
with a heavy black moustache. he
wore a suit OF dark clothes of a brown
ish tinge, and no hat, for he left his
hat behind 1t fell In the street and he
did not stop to pick II up. He is said
TO live somewhere on Spruce street but
| the Italians are very reticent, and as
all the persons implicated are Sicilians
| IL Is next to impossible to find out any
details. Rossi's injuries are not consid-
cred very dangerous.