The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-23
SLAYER'S BULLETS
/. HIT FATHER WITH
BABE IN ARMS
CharletOn Street Vendetta Ends
in Killing Man and Wound
ing Another.
LEAD MISSILES ALMOST
GROOVE INFANTS HEAD
Boy Trips Wild Criminal and Po-
lice Save Him from
LynChing.

When Frank Carracino, of 2SS Charlton
street, was arraigned in the Fourth
Precinct Police Court today, charged
with killing one man and severely
wounding another, there was told
remarkable story of how a woman
and a baby had narrowly missed death
at the hands of Carracino.
Albertino Cantillo, of 222 Charlton
street, had told Carracino's landlord
that his rent commenced on the first,
instead of tho fifteenth of the month,
and Carracino thirsted for revenge
Climbing down a flre-escape from his
second-story fiat last night, Carracino
landed in the midst of a crowd of per-
sens on the sidewalk and opened fire
on Cantillo, but his Workmanship
was bad.
The first bullet penetrated the heart
of Morris Solomon, 35 years old, of 126
Waverly avenue, and he dropped dead
in the crowd, which became bedam
of screams and cries. The second shot
grazed the head of Cantillo's 14-year
old son.
shoots Father Carrying Bnbe.
Isaac Sosbin and his wife, the latter
carrying their young baby, had just
left their home at 115 WaVerly avenue
and were passing the Charlton street
tenement when the shooting started.
Soskin, on the first shot, grabbed the
/ baby from his wife and turned to run.
His wife followed. and as they took
their first steps backward there was
another shot and the bullet passed by
Mrs Soskin's head, cut a long hole
through Soskins scalp and whizzed on
an inch from the baby's head. Then
came another shot and this hit Soskin
in the shoulder, and he fell
None of the bullets came anywhere
near striking Cantilo, at whom they
were aimed. Cantillo got out of the
way and Carracino dropped his pistol
and ran, with the excited crowd still
yelling and many of them following
him.
Cries of "Lynch Him."
He fed down WaVerly avenue. over
] Stratford place, up Avon avenue to Bel
mont avenue, where he was tripped by
Isadore Sheck, IA years old, of rs STRAIT
ford place.
Cries of Lynch him!" went up and If
it Hadn't been for the arrival of Police
men Kabus and Sebold, who were
among the first to give chase. the man
would have been severely dealt with.
Even at that he was badly battered
about the face and head, and when he
appeared in court today in the Fourth
Precinct police station before Judge
Herr his face was nearly hidden by
bandages and his clothes were stained
with blood.
Word was quickly telephoned to the
police station, and Solomon was placed
in the ambulance and hurried to St.
Barnabass Hospital, but death had
been instantaneous. Soskin was car
ried to the drug store of S. A. Kemper,
Waverly avenue and Charlton street,
and Drs. Victor Parsonett and b. H.
Wolf were called. Detective Sergeant
Slutzky, of the prosecutors office, ar
rived soon after the shooting, and i'm
mediately sent for Detective Sergeant
De Rogatis, also of the prosecutor S
office, in order that the foreign wit
nesses might be taken into. custody.
Roundsman Seipel and Policemen Kaas,
Schmidt and Muller aided in rounding
up ten eye-witnesses, and Captain
,Vogel and other officers on the case
were at work until o'clock this MORN
ing taking statements from those in
custody.
Police Captains Row.
Word of the shooting was telephoned
to police headquarters Immediately,
but it was more than an hour after
when Detective Sergeants Koerber and
! Walzer arrived at the station They
were sent by Captain Carroll to get
statements from the witnesses, but
were told that it had already been
done. AS result, Captain Carroll tele-
phoned to Captain Vogel, and heated
argument over the wire took place.
| Alfredo Carracino, % years old, a
cousin of the slayer, who boarded with
him, was taken in custody early today
and had in his possession the revolver
which fred the fatal shots. He was
held in default of $1,000 as a witness
Other witnesses held are George Snyder
| 113 Waverly avenue; Charles Weinman,
80 Hillside place; Abraham Kotler, 49,
4 Broome street; Max Schobick, 27 Hill
side place; Charles Mueller, Hillside
place; Rocco Flammia, 222 Charlton
street; Frank and Tony Guarriglia, 22s
Charlton street, and the Cantillos. Sos
kin and David Spitalwick, the latter an
/ agent, OF 21S Charlton street. were
paroled.
Katherine Kessler a 6-year-old girl
who was an eyewitness of the murder,
was taken to the police station and
paroled by Sergeant Suchard.
The slain man Ia survived by widow
and three children. Carracino's family
| consists of his wife and two children.