Evening star., 1909-07-12
ITALIANS GUARD FOES
Father and Son, Wounded,
Conceal Name of AssaiIant.
BOTH SHOT ENTERING HOME
Refuse to Identify Man Caught in
Flight.
HIDE CAUSE OF TROUBLE
"None of Your D. Business" In
jured Man Answers to In
quires Of Police.
CAUSE OF TROUBLE
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dspatc to The Star.
NEW YORK. July 12.-The Italian
| feudist showed himself in a characteristic
| light this morning when two gunshot vic
Tins spoke up from their beds in Belle
vue Hospital and calmly told inquirins
policemen that it was none of their
| d business who shot them, or what
was his reason for doing it,
The peculiar thing about this latest gun
ming case in the Italian section Of New
York's lower east side is that the action
of its victims in apparently trying to hide
| the identity of the shooter has made ii
necessary for the police to arrest them
as material witnesses. They are Santi
Galletta, a barber, and his son, Michael.
eight years old
| Giamori Forane, thirty-seven years old,
originally from Palermo, is held on a
charge of felonious assault The prob
| lem of making case against him Is COM
plicated by the refusal of his, alleged VIC
TINS to discuss the case in any way.
Refuse to Identify Man.
| Last night, while the wounded father
and son were fresh from the shock OF
being felled with revolver shots in the
dark hallway of their own home, at 252
| East 18th street, they we're confronted
with a person whom two detectives had
chased as he darted from the hallway i'm
mediately after the shots had been fired.
This was in drug store at 225 lst
avenue, where the detectives had cor
nered the fleeing italian and where the
victims of the shooting had been car
| ried to receive medical attention.
Whats the cause of the shooting:
asked Detective Bishop of. the elder
Galletta.
None of your D. business" came
the reply.
What do you think made this fellow
here want to shoot you DOWN."
Il never said he shot me down.. anu
the wounded man lapsed into silence
from which nothing could move him.
Galletta. at the time, was lying On
the drug store floor. while DR.. Rutledge
of Bellevue dressed q wound in his
back. Near him lay his son. bleeding
from a revolver shot in the left leg.
Detectives Bishop and Nelson were
holding the man they had nabbed, IN
plain view of both.
made to get the patients to talk of the
case. Both were as mysterious as they
had been last night.
Shot Entering Dark Hallway.
The shooting was evidently case in
WHICH one peISOu lidO WdiSCu ~ q iao1A-
way, in which he had turned out the
light, for the others to appear.
Galletta had taken his son to the Fort
George Amusement Park for the evening.
When they got back home the father re-
marked to his son that some one had
turned out the lights in the hall.
At that a revolver shot was heard. Both
turned to run.
A second shot struck the father in the
back He dropped to the floor.
His son. who was behind him, was
struck in the left leg by third shot He
fell over the body of his father.
The Galletta house is In a district in
which shooting scrapes have been fire.
quent of late. 1t is not far from the place
where the body Of an unidentified woman
was recently found murdered.
Since that time a special detective pa
troll has been maintained In the vicinity.
When these shots were fired Detectives
Bishop and Nelson were close at hand.
They saw. as they declare, GiamOri
Forane rush from the hallway. throw a
revolver away and dart down the street
They took after him and succeeded in
running him down in the drug store at
22J 1st avenue.
After the wounded pair had refused to
identify him or to answer questions about
the shooting, Forane was taken to the
East 9th street station and locked up on
a charge of felonious assault.
At Bellevue Hospital, !. is stated. both
the patients will recover from their
wounds unless combinations set in