Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-07
SUNDAY SKATERS STABBED.
Two Young Men Dangerously
 Wounded By Italians.

The Row Started Over a Game of
 Hockey on John D.'s Pond The 1 Young Men Stabbed Were Onlookers Orly-Father Came to Assistance of
 Son-Both of Them Received Cuts i From Hockeys.
 1 As result of q terrible free e-for-an l fight, if one might call it so, on John D's pond in the East End yesterday afternoon, in which hockeys, clubs, skates, fists, a knife and about twenty five people were prominent. three well known young men are suffering from stab wounds, two from rather danger ous and probably fatal ones and two Italians are locked up, in the police 1 station awaiting trial without bonds on the charge of assault. which may later be changed to more serious offense.
 The two Italians. who are accused of doing the stabbing, are Martin ScOzZoraZa about IS years old and his crippled son. John. aged about 20. both residing at their home, 1,10O East Main street, opposite the Hendricken school. | The father, who is q stone mason by trade, also conducts q small fruit and ! grocery store in q small building near his home. He is married and has six children, whose ages range from 1 to 20 years. He has resided in Water bury about two years, coming here directly from New York, where he resided for eight or more years He | comes from the southern part of Italy. | John. his eldest son. is about 20 years 1 old and is q cripple. He is employed at the Roger x Bros shop.
 Two of the young men who are vic tims of the cruel and rash act of the 1 Italians are James Moore of .19 AyreS street and Patrick Lynch of 144 Bald win street. Both of the young men ] are orphans and reside with relatives. | Both young Moore and young Lynch. who first saw the light of this world about eighteen years ago, have the reputation of being quiet. peaceful and industrious youths, the last to start or enter into a quarrel or a ! fracas. The former is employed at the Clock shop. the latter at the | Novelty shop. Moore received two cuts, one a deep gash under the left arm within close proximity to the 1 heart, the other a slight cut on the left side between the ribs. Lynch is suffering from two wounds. the depth of which cannot as yet be stated, l are not dangerous.
 Jack Budd, who is accused by the Italians and their sympathiZers as be- ing the primary cause of all the trouble is about 20 years old and resides with his parents at 24 Wolcott street. He has received deep scalp wound, which is claimed to have been made with q knife, but judging from the nature of the wound it was made from q hockey. Budd is employed at the ScOvill Manufacturing company. About ten others were concerned ill the affair, but they were not injured.
 >The story of the affair as ascertain ed by a Democrat reporter, who was on the scene immediately after the disgraceful affair, is substantially as follows: Saturday afternoon num- Der of fellows who were skating on John D's pond wished to build fire, and in pursuance of this plan they at tempted to take some old pieces of wood from nearby premises owned by the two Italians. John, the son, who was on the pond at the time. for bid them to do this and consequently the boys were displeased. But that was the end of the trouble that day Yesterday about l. .OOO people were en- toying the splendid skating on John DIS pond. At one end of the pond q game of polo was in progress, John ScOZZOraZo and Jack Budd being two of the players. Both were on differ ent sides. During the progress of the game the Italian, contrary to the rules of the game, picked up the ball. Young Budd was angry at this and was not backward in telling him so in strong terms. The Italian replied in just as vehement q strain. The words became louder and more vehement. the argu- mentS more intense. and finally the two commenced fighting but were sep arated by friends. Young Budd received the worst of the beating, as he was by far the smaller of the two. Both wished to renew the fight and despite the efforts of their friends, they did so. But by this time Johns father was down on the pond and a crowd of about 300 surrounded the two princi- pals. Budd struck the Italian in the face. and the latter retaliated by bring ing down his hockey with full force on the head of his opponent He then handed his hockey to his father. who also landed heavily on Budd. This un- 1 wanton assault by the father was the signal for about twenty hockeys com ing down on his head. several of them breaking. He was pinned to the ice and held there by several persons. But not so with the young fellow. He was cripple and no one cared to hurt him. He more than held his own with young Blldd. Both fell on the ice and while down the Italian is said to have pulled out shoe knife which had long blade and a red handle Budd got away and then the Italian began slashing right and left, with the result as above stated, that young Moore and young Lynch. two disinter- ested persons, were stabbed.
 Moore or Lynch did not know they were stabbed until so informed by friends. Moore was skating away when he was told that he was stabbed He was then carried to the residence Of Mrs Matthew Bergin, 1,O9S East Main street, and Dr Crane and the Rev Father Bray were summoned, the lat ter administering the last rites of the church to the unfortunate victim. Dr Crane stated that he could not, with certainty. state whether the wounds would prove fatal. The one under the heart was certainly dangerous. Lun-