The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-11-20
THREE SHOTS WERE FIRED.
Trouble on South Main Street Sunday
Night Supposed to Be Among Italians.

The quiet of South Main street wa
rudely broken about 100 o'clock Sunday
evening by three revolver shots in rapiC
succession, and residents along that thor
oughfarc were reused from their pcrusa
of the comic supplements OF the Sunda,
papers to investigate the unwonted oc
currenee.
! Following the three shots gentleman
of Italian extraction was seen vending
his way on the hot foot towards the toI
of the South Main street hill. The few
people who were in the neighborhood al
the time of the occurrence hit for tn,
| high spots where they wiltcd until the
| fracas should blow over The affair oc
CURED in the vicinity OF Emidio Man
cini's home on South Main street and the
| few who saw the fleeing Italian claim that
the running man had blood streaming
down his back. They all agree on one
| point, that the man wore a white vest
was hatless, and was running uphill at the
| top OF his speed.
At the time DR.. Leslie S. Edwards and
Archie Stockwell were at the top OF the
| hill. and they noticed man running to.
wards them crying Il am not hit.
Shortly afterward when they were con
WINGED that the gun play was over, they
came down the hill and when near the
bottom found man leaning against the
fence. The only information which could
be elected from him, however, was that
1T is all.a-right-a now
Frank j. Lafrance who lives on Wash.
ington street was another pedestrian who
was calmly vending his way toward Brat
tleboro when the whir of a bullet over
his head told him that flight was the best
method for safety, and he also beat 1t.
Some few minutes afterward while he was
standing in front of the Peoples National
bank on Main street meditating on the al
fair, two gentlemen with an unmistakable
Italian accent pounced upon him and said
that he was the guilty party. After much
explanation he was released and imme'
diately called upon Chief of Police Evans
who went up on South Main street and
investigated.
All Of the men were positive that the
shots came from the home of Emidlo
Mancini. and the chief visited that home
first. The family were all present, but
when questioned denied all knowledge OF
the affair. Not feeling content with this,
the chief visited another Italian family
living in the near vicinity OF the Man
cini home, where it was stated that they
believed that the whole affair emanated
from the home of Mancini. They stated
that some two weeks ago one OF the
daughters of the elder Mancini left the
parental roof and eloped with anot her one
of her countrymen. They said they
thought that the whole trouble arose over
the occurrence and that the shots were
fred at him. Whether or no, Monday
morning a bullet was found imbedded in a
large tree near the corner of Prospect and
South Main streets.
A reporter called at the Mancini home
Sunday evening shortly after the shooting
and it was stated to him that the, Man
cni family knew nothing about the. at.
fair, and that if any Italians were mixed
IN in the fracas they came from some
other family tree than that of Mancini.
They also said that the daughter and her
husband were living in Boston. Nothing
can be found of the assailant, or of the
man supposed to be hit, and the affair
sunday evening. The Mancinis claim to
have been in Greenfield during the day,
md said that they had Just arrived home
when Chief Evans visited their residence