The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-16
TWO INJURED, ONE
STABBED To DEATH
IN BLOODY FIGHT
Nicholas Di Gaetano, of Orange,
Dies of WOund-Alleged
Assailant Held.

On charges Of murder and two counts
pf atrocious assault and battery Vim
cenzo Notari, an understood a who
ran a boarding house for his relatives
at 100 Cone street. Orange, was held
Without bail today by Judge Bray in
the Orange Police Court. Nicola hi
Gaetano. p years cid. brother-in-law
of Notari. 27 years old, is dead; Nunzio
Dt Gaetano, his brother, is held in 1000
as a witness against his brother-in-law,
and has three stab wounds in his left
arm, and Aroangelo Petrone, of SO Me
clanic street, Orange, is in the Orange
Memorial Hospital, under arrest as a
witness. with a cash in his leg. Notari
is charged with slashing the three men,
following a row over the wedding yes
terday of Sabina Di Gaetano, a brother
of the murdered man, to Miss Nicolena
Rowena. of Orange. whose father was
murdered in cold blood -Four years ago.
The bridegroom, busy with his wedding
feast, was not involved in the fight.
The row started shortly after s
O'Clock last night. Notari was angry
because he had only five minutes no.
tice of his brother-in-law's wedding and
refused to go to the nuptials in the
Newark City Hall, where Mayor Jacob
Haussling performed the ceremony.
His wife and her brothers, with Pc
trone, a cousin. went and then waited
at the brides home in Orange for No
tart before starting the wedding feast.
When Notari failed to show up at s
O'clock Nunzio and Nicola Di Gaetano,
with P~etrone. joined Mrs. Notari, their
sister, who wanted to go home. but
feared her husbands wrath, as she said
he acted as though angered. The ar
rival of the family was the signal for
a fight. Notari, eating alone his sup
per. said he was sore at his wife
andaslapped her. Nunzio jumped be-
tween his sister and her husband and
got three stab wounds in the arm in
quick succession, it is said. from No
tari's knife. Nicola and Petrone then
got in the breach and the deadly knife
was again busy.
Nicola. with a bad stab wound. was
left ir the room, but the others were
chased out by the Infatuated husband,
who. when he say his brother-in-law
losing a large quantity of blood, be-
came frightened and called for the
other victims. They were after the po-
lice. however. and Notari stripped his
victims body of clothing and tried to
staunch the flow If blood. The arrival
OF the police caused him to flee to the
iire-escape and over the roof Of the
building to No. III.
Policeman Graham had arrived with
Furie Leva, a former ambulance driver,
and the door was forced open. Leva
ran to summon an ambulance, but lost
five minutes. he says,' in a row with Il
telephone operator, who refused
TO give him the ambulance station on
the wire, unless he told the number ot
the telephone station he was using.
Leva did not know the number and
got II from the store proprietor.
When DR.. Farkas and the ambulance
arrived the victim had bled to death.
Graham had a lively chase after the
murderer. whom he caught on the fire.
sscape, while Policeman Barry guarded
he yard and R%oundsman Reinhart
watched the front Of the building.
The police quickly summoned De-
John Drabell. who took charge
# the case. had the witnesses arrested
summoned the county official.
Leary and Sergeant Nc
with Roundsman Brown, saw
o it that the house was guarded and
in the witnesses.