Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-13
May HAVE BEEN A TRAITOR
Police Think He Was About to Betray
His Comrades.
GUN WAS OF FOREIGN MAKE
Hundreds Near Scene of Shooting Saw
Only q Flash-Officers Find
the Weapon.

NEW YORK, February 13.-Felipo Ran.
dazzo, the butcher of III Chrystie street.
VINO was shot through the heart supposed.
iy by agents of the Black Hand, was killed
with a double barrelled shotgun of foreign
manufacture, containing cartridge
brought from Italy
The police say further that the murdered
man, like many other Italians in New York
city, was engaged in business, but at the
same time was a leader i'm the Black Hand
or some similar organization. In his little
outcher shop they found a dyna mite
cartridge of the sort recently used in
oio"ihg up shops owned by prosperous Ital-
lans who have offended the organization
therefore they believe he was a member az
his death.
detective Sergeant Petrosino. in charge Of
the Italian detective bureau attached TO the
central office. had his entire force of sixtean
Italian detectives on the case Yesterday
| Ihey learned that he had made enemies in
the society TO which he belonged and that
ne mad told friend that he had intended
10 give the police informa ucn which vas
likely to lead to the arrest of some of The
band. Vi '''e
"Black Hand" Criminals
Randazzo lived at 335 East 1O6th street
with a wife and child. Before he bec,,e
acquainted with the men engaged I'm the
Iork as piasterer. He had been In Now
YORK about three years, coming here fror,
Palermo. Most of the men engaged in
slack Hand Matchmaking are natives -,
SSi'Sny, from the provinces of Palermo and
/ tnn neehti. Many of them have been sem
fenced 10 terms in prison for crimes tbe,
committed in Italy but escapedS "a vinu ths
penalty 1t is customary in Italy 10 fry a
man on a criminal charge and convict hin,
p ,iouSI ne Is not present at his trial The
l lS hnra
men. '''S Such
fandazzo went into the butcher business
III Shrystle street about three months ago
II was his custom to close his shor -.
o CLOCK every night EXCEPT on Satnrdawr
wnen ne usually kept open later AT II 50
| o clock last Saturday night he turnei ,h,
aet al ine aoor OF his little shop. and with
"a pundie or meat was about to go home
IN Hariem's Little Italy. He had taken
aoout three steps when he met his death
some one undoubtedly standing in a door.
way on the opposite side of the street had
| heart. e" 'he
Dead on Sidewalk.
lhere were probably a hundred persons
| in the neighborhood at the time but all
| they saw was a flash of fire on the on,o-
site side of the street. They did not knou,
what had happened until Salvatore Tuso.
the proprietor of delicatessen store n, xt
TO Randazzos butcher shop ran into tha
roadway shouting "murder,' He had seen
handazzo fall dead on the sidewalk
win the crowd came Policeman Natner
G ;n 1ne Eiaridge street station and made an
investigation. None of those he questioned
knew who did the shooting. Tuso sa d be
mao peen eating his supper when he heard
the report OF a gun, ana, running into the
street, mad seen the murdered man living ON
the sidewalk. The policeman teiephoneI roN
capt. Mannion of the Eldrldge street sta.
| tion' who came, bringing his detectives.
Discovered Dynamite.
After learning that the murderer had es-
capped, the captain broke open the door Of
the butcher shop and discovered a dynamite
cartridge in a tin pail behind the dead mans
counter. Going back to Randazzo's body.
Mannlon saw that the bullet which hld
passed through his body, piercing the leart.
was of large caliber. The captain became
satisfied that the bullet had not been fired
from revolver.
The hole it had made was more than hole
an inch in diameter. An examination OF
RandaZzo's door showed that the bullet mad
passed through 1t, just above the keyhole,
ana mad hit the wall in the rear OF the
snop, bending a meat hook and rebounding
The bullet was found on the floor OF the
shop.
Some of the people who were passing at
the time were of the opinion that the MUIR
derer had fired the shot from a revolver
on street car, but the caliber convinced
Capt. Mannion that it had been fired from
shotgun. 1t was a twelve guage car
| fridge that did the work
At daybreak yesterday the shotgun was
found in the yard of "A tenement house at
% Rivington street, just around the cor
ner. 1t was a gun made in Belgium and
! in one of the barrels the police found an
empty cartridge. The gun was almost five
| feet long; the cartridge was more than two
| inches in length. An examination of the
| shell showed that it had been made in Italy.
1t was evident to the police that both the
| gun and Its cartridge were brought here
| from abroad. 1t was also evident that the
man who had done the shooting was O
crack shot.