The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-26
XMAS SHOOTING
 MAY BE MURDER
Attachment Levied to Recover Loan of One Brother Re- suits in Injury of
 Another,
TWO SHOTS IN ABDOMEN
Victim, Giuseppi Speziante, Lying in Hospital With Practically No Chance for His Re-
 covery.

Guiseppi Speziante, an Italian. of 112 Oak street was mortally shot in the abdomen at 7;3O o'clock last night in from of 21 Jefferson street by Dom- enico Belfiore, fruiterer. The cause of what will in all probability termin- ate in another tragedy in the Grand avenue district, was quarrel over an attachment levied on the property of Beliore at the address given, and at the instance Of Clemento Speziante Monday afternoon.
 Coroner Mix called at the New Ha- ven hospital shortly after the shooting when it became apparent to the police that Speziante had no chance to live ! longer than few hours Speziante, i like the other principals in the shoot ! ing, can talk little English. He man aged to say, however, that it was Bel fore who shot him before he lapsed into inconsistencies. The coroner de- ferred taking his ante-mortem state | ment until he should recover his senses. Speziante is twenty-eight and married.
 l Speziante, according to the witness
 es and his brother Sebastian, called
 at the residence of the fruit man to
 either thrash him or else extirpate
 him. The police are searching for
 Belfiore and Sebastian, and the revol-
 vers,
 There had been bad blood between
 the Speziantes and Belfore for some
 weeks Clemento another brother of
 Giuseppi, had loaned $15 to Belfiore.
 The latter refused to return it. An
 attachment was sued out and Monday
 afternoon Peter J, McNerney, deputy
 sheriff. visited the fruit store to serve
 the writ Mrs. Belhore attacked the
 officer and, 1t is alleged, was aided by
 one George Delis. Both were arrested
 as a consequence of this, and their : cases continued in the city court next
 day
 Sebastian and Giuseppi arrived at
 the Belfores, who live on the first floor of No. 21 Jefferson street. at : about I o'clock, and apparently rein stated themselves in the affections of the fruit man. His family were in the house at the time, and so was Angelo Gioa, an eye witness. The men in the party sat about a 5 table and played a game There was } drink a-plenty, and Christmas was : being celebrated in the true Italian
 fashion, Suddenly Giuseppi arose, , and, roughly skipping Belfore on the l shoulder, said according to Gioa: T know you and you know I know : you I'm not afraid of jails for X served four years in jail in Italy" Belhore shrugged his shoulders S Then he said he guessed everybody l needed another drink. There was a r plethora of good wine in the house 7 Belfiore went down the cellar foi more He had just brought it in, says , Gioa when Giuseppi said:
 n Gan I see you privately? l wan t a few words with you,
 e Certainly" said Belf1ore, r I've will walk down toward the cor. - ner of St. John street, as I want tC
 talk to you," said Giuseppi
 F Belfore put on his hat and ooa n and followed Giuseppi out into tn, street. Sebastian followed Belfiore 7 Thus Belfiore was between the tw, t Speziantes. Angelo Gioa brought ul l. the rear. Gioa says.
 q Giuseppi and Belfiore then began n talking on the sidewalk. There wa e bad talk Then I saw Giuseppi slal if Belfiore in the face. reached to picl S up my hat which had fallen, and as n did so I heard the shots-pat, pat-sc
 Sebastian ran toward Grand avenue .s He ran right away"
 ,e After the shooting Belfiore ran to r. ward St. John street, one block away
 The wounded man ran diagonall
 across Jefferson, following his assail Nj ant As he passed the corner of St W John and Jefferson where Thomas Nc
 Keon's house is he staggered slightly II but continued the chase Speziante ha
 run down in front of the St. Stanis .d laus Polish Catholic church, not ia n, John, and there he collapsed, sinkin re on the sidewalk in a comatose stat ,- Leopold J. Jacobs. son of Max Jacob' a+ 46 Park street. and a student at tn +h Jefferson Medical college in Philade m phia, who is home tor the holiday n. was visiting a relative, Gus Greer ,d baum, No Jefferson street, almo: ,e across the street from the scene ( vo the shooting and heard the shots. H er joined the crowd.
 fit Policeman William F, Leddy, of tf ey DiXwell avenue police precinct, wi as lives in John street, left his house ar se went to the church. Then came P;
 trolman Carey, of the Grand avent
 precinct.
 M Speziante was grooming and incohe
 ent on the sidewalk. Jacobs offered h !, services and dressed the wound in u
 abdomen, and then came the ambl
 lance and Patrolman ]. B. Roach fro ge. the Grand avenue precinct in a reco of breaking run The man was swift dy borne to the New Haven hospital Sir He was wounded in two places to t of left of the median line in the low in abdomen. So close together are u 2 wounds that they appear to have be, ,e- made by one bullet, He was operat, he upon with a view to removing the bl
 lets. The hospital authorities at mi
 night said he could not live.
 There were four or five Italians han ,ed ing about near there when the poll md commenced the search of the neighbc or- hood and one of them, Ames ChapI to Twas taken to the Grand avenue poll
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