New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-08-11
WASH IN PARENTS BLOOD.
FAMILY OF DEAD ITALIAN ATTACKS
POLICE.
A WILD SCENE IN MULBERRY BEND-RE-
SERVES CALLED oUT-ALLEGED MUIR
DERER AN OCTOGENARIAN

Pietro Guardina Neapolitan fishdeG Ter living
in Brooklyn, took his family to see relatives in
zabeth-st. yesterday. He murdered by
Antonio zirotoI, Scilian, eighty-two years old.
the police charge. who ripped the Neapolitan's
Jugular with knife his wife handed him Then
Guardina's wife and children and all his rela-
tives. in frenzy of grief knelt beside his body
and washed their faces in his blood. In making
the arrest and dispensing crowd of over
thousand Italians and others, two detectives
were mauled by Guardinas people but they
were not seriously hurt. The reserves of two
police stations had to be called on to clear the
street.
Guardina was twenty-five years old He
lived with his wife and children at No 361 Hud-
son-ave., Brooklyn He drove over in carriage
with his wife and two children TO visit Leo
Guardina, his brother. and the family at No.
III Eliza beth-st Without asking the permis-
sion of zirotoli, shoemaker at No 126 Eliza
beth-st., of the son, Michaelo, who has a
stable at No. 124 Elizabeth-st.. Guardina put
his horse and carriage in Michaelo's stable.
1t late in the afternoon when Guardina
went to get the horse and carriage ready to
go home. He met Michaelo. who asked him
what right he had to put his horse and carriage
in the stable. Then came curses and recrimina-
tions in Italian, while the men, getting more
and more excited. made their way TO the side
walk There the families joined in the quarrel.
They tried to settle il with fists, at first. All
the Guardinqs and Zirotolis were in the squabble.
and fifteen men. women and children were
paired off or fighting in threes and fours. while
many Italians gathered to see the row.
AS soon as the octogenarian Antonio and his
wife, Carmela. who is fifty-one years old, Joined
the fighting witnesses say the woman handed
knife TO her husband. The old near
Guardina, and understood what the quarrel
about and looked Guardna as the chief Of
fender He thrust the blade of the knife deeply
into Guardina's neck, it is alleged. and the man,
with his jugular severed. fell to the sidewalk
In an instant the fighting stopped. but the ex
citement increased hundredfold. The Guardians
shrieked franticaly and knelt down beside the
murdered mans body. They gesticulated wildly
and shouted curses and prayers, while the crowd
augmented and police and detectives tried TO
push their way through.
Then the Guardinas-men women and chill
dren-thrust their hands into the blood flowing
from the wound and mopped their faces with
it. spattering their clothing and all the time
shrieking curses and prayers in Italian. The
sight was sickening and so awed the crowd,
even the Italians, that they moved back. This
let Detectives McGough and Hauck, of the Mul-
berry-st. station, through They had been at
Elizabeth and Grand SITS. and said they saw the
old man stab Guardina. Detectives Galligan ana
Burke. of the same station, also came up with
policemen. They saw HauCk and McGough seize
the shoemaker. and they tried 70 get witnesses
They questioned several OF the Guardians, but
the latter turned on them. Infuriated. and In
state OF lunacy, they mobbed Burke and CALI
gan. The men struck at them with their fists,
the elawed them and they ma6a - furt
Gus attack the men that the detee eONes
were driven against the house wall The Ital-
ians shouted all sorts Of threats they teat
the two men back while Hauck and McGouEh
took their man into a hallway and drew their
revolvers.
The mob OF thousand Italians and others Of
the eighborh0od shouted wildly pushing this
way and that. while the Guardians and their
sympathizers were maung the detectives
The Mulberry-st police had been told there
was riot, and their reserves. as well as those
from the Elizabeth-st. station, rushed into
Eliza st. and in a few seconds drove the
Italians and others out and rushed the
Guardinas and those helping them. They drove
them all into tenement houses there not arrest
ing any as Galligan and Burke We're bruised,
but not dangerously hurt The alleged murderer
was locked up