The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23
FULF|LLS THREAT
TO KILL MAN WHO
BEAT HIM IN FIGHT
GaetanO Ambrifi Shoots Frank
Rcciliano, Sub-ioreman, With
Whom He Quarreled.
VICTIM KNEELING AS
HE FIRES FATAL SHOT
Slayer Escapes on Freight Train
and Police Net Is Spread
Out for Him.

True to his threat to get revenge on q
man who had beaten him Yesterday
during quarrel. Gaetano Ambrifi TO-
DAY shot and killed Frank Ricciiano.
Anibrih had been working as laborer
on the Pennsylvania railroad. under
Riccillano, who was b-foreman OF the
gang. An alteration started between
the two men yesterday and Ambrif was
severely beaten. Immediately after the
fight. Ambrifi quit work, and, mutetriny
threats. left the neighborhood The
work was being carried on about 100
feet from the spot where the Lehigh
Valley tracks branch off from the Penn
sylvania, near Wayerly. Today Ambrii
appeared at the scene of his former
labors He was dressed as though for
a holiday and showed no intention Of
returning to work. According to some
of the laborers, who are being held as
witnesses In the First Precinct station
Ambritl remarked shortly after arriv-
ing, glancing toward Ricciliano:
He made me bleed yesterday and I'll
make him bleed today"
A moment later. while the foreman
was bending over rail, Ambrifi whipped
q revolver from his pocket and fred ut
the llneeling man. The bullet struck
Ricciliano in the top of the head, pene-
trated the brain and caused instant
death.
Two freight trains, travelling in oppo-
site directions, were passing the spot at
the moment of the murder. During the
confusion which followed the shooting
the murderer disappeared. 1t 10 be-
lieved he boarded one of the trains, and
the police have wired all along the line
i'm the hope that ne may be intercepted
Ricelliano was 80 years old. He lived
with his wife and five children at 81
Van Buren, street. where Mrs. Riccl-
liano conducted a small grocery store
The woman was out today when the
police went 20 the house to notify her
of her husbands death.
For the past six months Ambrif, wha
was 35 years old, had been living IN
a railroad boarding-house conducted
by Domenico francesca, at 124 South
street. He left the house with his be-
longings Thursday. 1t was understood
at the house that the man had a wife
and three children in Italy. 1t was
said that he Fwas quiet and we'll be-
haved, and had never been heard 50
n axe threats against anyone.
Ambrifi may be easily identified. One
eye was blackened and there was an
abrasion over it from the fight OF yes
terday. There was also an old gear
over the other eye.
Captain Ryan, of the First Precinct
took personal command of the band OF
policemen which hastened to the scene
Eleven witnesses were brought baelc
to the station house. Captain Carroll,
Of the detective bureau sent out Ser
geants Kuhn, Quinn, Cordano, Tenore,
Mcconnell and Harris on the case.
Three of the worlSmen who actually
saw the killing will probably be held
as material witnesses. They are Clio
vianni Dacunzi, 159 Malvern street;
Vincenzo Labrano, 9S Avenue C, and
Vincenzo Petro. 1874 Parkhurst street
other workmen who were brought
to the station house, are: E'rancesco
Sciarrllo. of 243 Miller street: Mateo
Pinto. Of 306 Miller street; Giusseppi
Roccia, of 1872 Gobel street; Libreatore
Santora, Of 124 South street; John
Damo. of 3O4 Miller street; Guissepe
Longo Of 124 South street. and Gio-
vanni Pulcino, of Avenue C.