The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-10
FIRES into CROWD; KILLS one
FIVE FOUNDED BY SHOT FROM
DOURLE.BARRELLED GUN.
Police Have One Man and Are Hunting for
Another. but Dcst Know Who Fired
into Mulberry street ThronS or Why
He did u-One Other May De.

Another. hut Dea't Know Who Fired
into Mulberry street Throns or VII,
He did lt-One Other May Ne
A man with a double-barrelled shot g,in
appeared in crowded Mulberry street,
lust above Canal, last evening. fired loads
Of b,,ckshot from both barrels into crowd
and then ran. He left behind him one
man who died before an ambulance got
there and at least Ave wounded persons,
one Of whom Ia expected to die,
The police arrested Rafaello Coscone.
a brewery collector. Of 1l2 Mulberry street
lust after the shooting, and late last night
they we're 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 1t was done.
The dead man ia Giammarino Santaniello
an Italian butcher, Of 9 Beach street. The
man who Ia expected to die Is his cousin
Diricio Sinisoato Of 1874 Eighth avenue
Newark, N, j., a young man.
The others wounded are Frank Caliendo,
blacksmith. OF li5Mulberry at rect: Clemen-
tina Alvino, an old woman who was selling
bread at her stand, at i2i Mulberry street;
Giovanni Confuzzi Of 1l9 and fve-vear-old
Henry IApolo Of 10, Mulberry street.
The last three were slightly wounded by
stray buckshot.
At 8 o'clock, when the shooting occurred.
the street was crowded with Italians seek
ing fresh air before they went to their tene-
ment beds. They were patronizing the
stands on the inner side Of the sidewalks
and the pushcarts at the cutters.
Santaniello and Siniscato. the cousins.
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 a, ~. .ho,. mo si,,scato, santapi-
clio, and Caliendo, who was near he 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.
Sergt. Parker and Roundsman hrennan
Of the Elizabeth street police sta, ion u we're
they reached the scene they found men and
women flying in all directions, fright ened
and screaming. Parker jumped to tele-
phone and got t he reserves from his stat ion.
For half an hour the police had all they
could do to take care OF the wounded ana u,
men and stand peddlers had fled before
the police got there.
SantanieIlo died as he was being carried
to drug store. As they were putting
Sinscato in Hudson street hospital
ambulance with Caliendo, Sergt Parker
ran up and got at Sniscato.
who did the shooting?" asked the SER
geant.
answering. Parker pulled out a notebook
and put il in the Italians hands without
cone" Pressed further, he said he had had
a fight with Ooscone's brother Donsnico.
He repeated his answer In writiag seven
or eight times, but went no iurther. linen
the ambulance went to the hospital.
Raifaelo Coscone another tried to find his
brother Domenico. They learned that the
shooter had run into the tenement at lI2
Mulberry st rect and into II HAT on the third
floor.
As he rushed into the fiat, with hi. gun
y, iii in his hands. lie was met by Mrs. Roslna
Marine. vi no was rocking her baby in her
arms.
The murderer ran from the fiat, dropping
his gun at the door. Az he raced up stairs
Mrs. Marine picked up the gun and thre"
it after him. She knew that the p"ssessioIi
of il might mean her arrest.
The man ran up To the roof and accord,
ing TO people in the nei gliborhood, climbed
through the scultle OH the roof OF the house
al lls. There the police lost track OF him;
Raffaello CoScone had on him two gold
wat ches. u, 3O5, 4 big diamond pin and q
fully loaded revolver, for which he carried
a permit. He denied all knowledge Of the
shoe, ing although Siniscat" later ident'-
fed him AZ the man.
Near the spot~where Santaniello dropped
was found fully loaded revolver cylinder
and directly across the street complete
revolver. also full Of undischarged cart
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