Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-11
FIRES INTO CROWD.
Five Wounded by Shot from
Double BarreI!ed Gun.
Great Excitement Caused by Man in
New York Streets.
Police Have Arrested the Man Said to
Be Guilty.

New York, June 10.-A man with Il
double barrelled shotgun appeared in
crowded Mulberry street, just above
Canal, last evening, fired loads of
buckshot from both barrels into a
crowd and then ran. He left behind
him one man who died before an ambu-
lance got there and at least five wound
ed persons, one of whom is expected to
die
The police arrested Raffaello Co.'S
cone, a brewery collector of 112 Null
berry street, just after the shooting,
and late last night, they were securing
Mulberry Bend and the other Italian
districts of the city for Coscone's
brother Domenico. At that time the
police hadn't made up their minds who
did the shooting or why it was done.
The dead man is Giammarino San
taniellO, an Italian butcher of Beach
street. The man who is expected to die
is his cousin Diricio Siniscato of 1874
Eighth avenue, Newark, N. j., q young
man.
The others wounded are Frank
| Caliendo, q blacksmith of lis Mulberry
| street; Clementina Alvino, an old Wo-
man who was selling bread at her
stand at 121 Mulberry street; Giovanni
| ConfuzZi of 119 and 5-year-old Henry
Lapolo of 121 Mulberry street. The last
| three We're slightly wounded by stray
| buckshot.
| ct o'clock, when the shooting oc-
Cured, the street was crowded with
| Italians seeking fresh air before they
| went to their tenement beds. They
| were patroniZing the stands on the in
ner side of the sidewalks and the push
carts at the cutters.
| Santaniello and Siniscato, the
cousins, We're standing in front of the
house at ia Mulberry street. Perhaps
| they chatted of the young woman
whom Siniscato had met in Mulberry
Bend Park the other night, and about
whom the row is said to have begun.
When the shots came Siniscato, San
| taniello, and Caliendo, who was near
| the first two, dropped to the ground.
| Siniscato's jaw was almost torn away.
Santaniello's chest was riddled with
shot and Caliendo was badly wounded
in the thigh.
| Sergeant Parker and Roundsman
Brennan of the Elizabeth street police
station We're around the corner in Mott
| street When they reached the scene
they found men and women flying in
all directions, frightened and scream
ing. Parker jumped to a telephone and
got the reserves from his station.
For half an hour the police had all
they could do to take care of the
| wounded and quiet the crowd Many
of the pushcart men and stand peddlers
had fled before the police got there.
SantanielIo died as he was being car
ried to a drug store. AS they were
putting Siniscato in Hudson street
hospital ambulance with Calicndo, Ser
geant Parker ran up and got at SIMS
| cato.
who did the shooting?" asked the
sergeant.
Siniscatos broken jaw kept him from
answering Parker pulled out a notebook
and put it in the ItaliaES hands Without
| hesitation the latter wrote, "RanacIo
Coscone." Pressed further. he said he had
had fight with Coscone's brother DO
menlco. He repeated his answer in writing
| seven or eight times, but went no fur
| ther. Then the ambulance went to the
hospital
While one squad of police went after
itaiiaeilo Coscone another tried to find his
brother Domcnico. They learned that the
shooter had run into the tenement at III
| Mnlnclfy street and into a Hat on tho
| third floor.
AS he rushed into the fiat, with his gun
sun IN his hands, he was met by Mrs
| t"Sina Marine, who was rocking her ba-
| by in her arms.
The, murderer ran from the fiat drop
| ping ms gun at the door. AS ne raced IN
! STAIRS Mrs. Marine picked up the gun and
threw 1T after him. She knew that tho
possession of it might mean her arrest
| Thc man ran up to the roof and. ac-
| cordlng to people in the ucighburhood
climbed through the Scuttlc on the roof
OF the house at lis. There the police lost
| track of him.
Kllta"llo Ccsconc had on him two gold
W2tcileS Sl301. big diamond pin ana n
| FULLY loaded revolver for which he carried
| q permit lie denied all knowledge of tho
smoothing, although SinisCato later idcnti-
| lied him as the man.
Near the spot where SantaniclIo drop
ped was found a fully loaded revolver cII-
lndcf, ana directly across the street a com
plcte revolver, also full of untiischargcd
cartridges.