The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-15
MURDERED on HESTER STREET.
italian Contractor shO Down while Talk.
ing with His Friends.


Michael Dsmbra. a we'll to do young
Italian contractor of 20Sth street and
Bedford Park, The Bronx. was shot In the
right temple at SIS O'Clock last night with
out warning while talking with friends
in front Of l7s Hester street, in the Italian
quarter. He died at 1890 O'Clock in the
Hudson street hospital. His alleged as
s%ailant, with a bullet in his right thigh,
is locked up in the Elizabeth street police
station.
Dambra had visited the supply store
Of Domlnick and RONALD Pagano, IFS Hester
street, and purchased some fish and a
gallon of olives. He was accompanied
by a friend, and after the purchase the two,
with RONALD Pagano, walked down the
steps and into the street. A few seconds
later revolver shots were heard and Dambra
fell to the street. Pagano turned quickly
toward the north side of the street and
saw a man emptying his revolver at Dambra.
Dambra's friend disappeared mysteriously.
Hester street is the boundary between
the Elizabeth and Mulberry street police
stations. Detective McCsbe Of the latter
station house was a block away when he
heard the shots, and Policeman Britton Of
the Elizabeth street station house was on
the other side. Both rushe toward the
place. and while Brtton attended the
wounded man, McCabe, directed by several
persons who we're witnesses of the shooting
went after the assailant, who had entered
the hallway at 1871 Hester street.
McCabe found the man under a stairway
OF a rear tenement. The detective had no
sooner seen him than an o%vercoat was
thrown in his face. The man then ~grappled
with McCabe, and il was only after a fierce
struggle that the Italian was subdued. He
wa taken to the Elizabeth street police
station and said he was Angelo Lidero, %
years old, proprietor of a fish store in the
basement of 100 Mulberry street. He was
suffering from a bullet wound in his right
hip. Dombra was sent to the Hudson street
hospital unconscious, and DR.. Bryant said
that he would soon die.
Almost across the street from the scene
Of the shooting, in isl Hester street. lives
Josephine Sanmartino, IL years old. She
was in front of her hons when the shooting
began, caring for her three-year-old sister,
Angelina. just before the shots came she
picked up the little girl. The second shot
struck Josephine in the hip, and had little
Angelina remained standing 1t would have
struck her in the body. Josephine rushed
up to her mother, and il was almost an hour
before the police discovered she was shot
and sent her to the hospital. Her wound is
not serious.
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shooting Assistant District Attorney Car
dozo came to the Elizabeth street station
house and examined several witnesses, the
-mostimportant Of whom was Romolo Pagano,
who identified Lidero as the man who die
the shooting. Lidero was also examined by
Mr.. Cardozo, but the latter declined 10 give
out his statement other than to say that the
prisoner could not say how he received his
wound.
Mr.. Cardozo said he had been unable to
ascertain any motive for the shooting, but
said he had learned that both Dambra anC
Lidero had come from the same province
in Italy. II was said that there had been a
quarrel between the two men earlier in the
afternoon, but no one could be found who
could give the cause of it. The police are
much mystified over the fact that no re.
volvers were found, and the Disappearance
Of the friend who was with Dambra wher
he was shot.
A bullet hole in the window OF the banl
and liquor store of l.. Scinto, I76 Hester
street, shows where n bullet went. Wher
Scinto was asked about it he said:
Il Didn't see anybody shoot. ! just
saw the bullet coming and laid down on thc
floor, and il hit the wall. l o n know any