The sun., 1908-12-10
BOMB REuDS 4 TENEMENT
n4NKER BOZZUFFT APPARs
EMILY FAVORED ONCE MORE.

ubzen RIeeping Persons Hurt In Building
g3f ue Vsed TO ONn-He's the Man
whose Hoy Was Held for $4,000
RansOm-TaFget Of Blackmallers.
Sonnebody sneaked over the level roofs
N the row of tenements on the south side
4 al Sixty-third street, between First and
! 6Acond avenues yesterday morning
: and dropped a handmade bomb down the
AIR we'll Of the house at $50, which Gio-
z yfnni Bozzufh, the banker, used to own
slgnor Bozzuffi lives behind strong clamped
Z irbn windows at the back Of 3Sa East
Skxty-saoond street. directly in the rear
: Oh the tenement which was mussed up
y vest srday morning, and although the
bAmb thrower might not have been after
Bozzuffi he was shooting pretty close.
In the last two years evil men supplied
4 With Runpowder and scrap iron have
pAstered the little Parmesan 30 inces-
oAntly that the police have made a record
o8 their attentions. Two years ago his
] a6n Antonio was abducted and held for
q kransom of $4,000. When the news
phpers and the detectives got more than
t,Aually busy the boy was released and
r1nt home unable TO tell who stole him.
/. Myear ago kerosene and match were
applied to- a tenement Bozzufti owned
In East Sixty-frst street. Last May
another tenement Of his was wrecked by
bomb
A few months ago while Bozzuff was
making his way late at night to his iron
barred house in East Sixty second street
). through the back yard Of $50 East Sixty
third street, the one that was visited
yesterday morning, a bullet sang past
his ears At odd times there have been
minor bombings threatening letters and
run on his bank.
Signor Bozsuffi. counting money quite
calmly in his combination real estate,
steamship and banking offio, at the
southwest corner of Sixty third street
and First avenue Yesterday could not
Z believe that the eNpiosiol OF tho early
morning had been designed to annoy him.
Y He was of Parma in TIA norta OF Italy,
and had no truck. outside o. business.
with the Sicilaus OF the quartz; Why
aiaonld they sack TO injure him2 Anyway
he didn't own tae house at $50. That was
reason enough. The polio, thought;
though, that the bomb thrower might not
have known about the reai estate transfer,
Whether 1t was the binksr OF Parma
OF fhe stout grocer Of Palermo, Francisco
di Angelo, whose shop occupied part of
& the first floor of $50. that the bomb
drcpper was after, it is certain that the
GENERAL results of the smashup should he
pleesing to any active blackmailer in
GOOD standing. A dozen men and women
were hurt, five seriously enoughto require
hospital attention; the inside of the old
tenement was turned inside out, the stock
- l.
congerted into garbage. and the canary
ef Signora di Spensa, tuneful bird by
report, was lost TO its owner.
sEba clock which furnished the time of
day to the grocer and his patrons was
tilti3Hn, askew on the wall and quit
bbeiness at seven minutes before
O'Clock in the morning. At that time five
laborers were asleep in the room back OF
tie grocery. Five floors Of the tenement
Ntire pretty we'll crowded with sleeping
ztilians The bomb. which dropped IS or
Dtfeet, from fhe roof to the bottom of the
anbhaft, burst with such force that the
ntb mon in the back room were knocked
exkseless. All OF them were 50 badly
e4k by flying glass and splinters that
thy had TO go to the Presbyterian Hos
pt&ll for few hours.
kthe shock of the explosion burst the
Wtter main and Di Spensa had a job turn
j ida of the supply before whatever OF
vb{ue was left was soaked. .
hcross the street from $50 is the Convent
q lthe Sisters Of the Holy Rosary. The
okpIosion the crash of glass and the
hbbbub Of shrieks and cries alarmed the
nhbs and the children. but a policemen
r3bped on the door and told them what
th1 matter was. Bomb parties are not 80
4 u6kommon in that neighborhood that
edIre endures more than few minutes
ANYWAY.
Rtha police. thought--tha the bomb
dAspper had timed his fuse 30 that the
K eHPlosioa might give him plenty OF time
10 escape the way he came-over the
robfs Bozsuffi could give no information,
ndr could Di Angelo, the grocer