The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-18
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wing on tho sidewalk
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tlm,lagty fast down aecund avenus
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cop took thu cie DOWN sruond sven'Ie
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east on Forty 18th s,seet fitzgerald CHASED
HE man. bes ween flfs, and Second
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ward, where Fitzgerald rornered the Italian,
fitHaeraid's troubles only began ~ that
point. when he emerged from the HOUSE
with hla prisoner thu policeman found q
mob ~ men and women Jabbering Italian
and waiting for him. All attacked him al
once, The women held up their babies In
q circle about the officer 10 no could not
hope 10 got In a blow with his nlRhtstick,
From behind this improvised bulwark
blowp raincd In upon the cornered officer
and knives were out,
Jimmy Fiery, Marty Gallagher and two
other young men who hang out at the
corner of Forty-sixth street and Second
avenue saw the cops danger and Joined
hls side.
The prisoner pext tried to break away
and succeeded In hitting Fitzgerald once
or twice before he was struck over the head
by the latter's nightstick. The policeman
then pulled his revolver n threatened to
shoot the next man who approached him.
The fight between the rescuing party OF
four and the Infatuated Italians was still
going merrily on when Detective Thomas
Cummings Of the East Fifty-frst street
station came along. He called up his
station house and ran back to get in the
fight.
The patrol wagon was standing in front
Of the station house when the word came.
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were sent out. They rescued Fitzgerald
and his man and took three other prisoners.
The man whose capture caused the riot
his name as Dominlck Seidel, 30 years
old, q laborer, Of 2Sl Fast Forty-ffth street.
The other men arrested are Joseph Giovanni,
80 years old, of 23l Fast Forty-ffth street,
and Frank Mezzena and VincenZo Mezzena,
brothers, who live in Forty-eighth street
near First avenue. All are laborers. The
three were locked up on charges OF dis
orderly conduct and resisting and inter-
fering with an officer.
Seidel was attended by DR.. Day Of Flower
Hospital, who found his head badly cut
and took him to the hospital. Fitzgerald
followed to get a lacerated and dislocated
thumb attended to.
Meanwhile the man who was stabbed in
the first place was forgotten. Detectivee
n Mcclure were sent out to
knife lying on the sidewalk IN Second
avenue not far from the scene Of the ex-
element. They took the knife TO the
house.
The ambulance which carried Seidel to
the hospital was followed by the mob. .
Seidel's wife shouted, Save my husband!'
and led an attack on the ambulance. The
were again sent out and the ambu-
lance continued to the hospital. The po-
lice learned that the four men arrested had
been walking with some women when the
over one OF the women caused the stabbing.
The Mezzenas have beer in the country
three weeks, which suggests to the
police that there may nave been an old feud
between the men.
A house to house search had failed to find
a stabbed man In the vicinity late last night,
the police are still looking.