New-York tribune., 1910-08-22
TWO BROTHERS SHOT
DEAD IN POOL GAME
Three Men Enter Strangely and
Fire simultaneously at Them
from Behind.
POLICEMAN GETS PRISONER
Cousins Found Lying Across
PROSTATE Forms, Praying for
Them, When Surgeons
Arrive.


playing pool in the rear of saloon at
No. $50 East 115th street last night.
Antonio, who was nineteen years old
and lived at No. 46 East 115th street.
was instantly killed. and John, who was
twenty-sx years old and lived at No. 231
East 115th street, died later in Harlem
Hospital.
There were seven men in the Sa loon
at the time of the shooting. Some were
playing pool and others sat around small
tabes, drinking and chatting. The pro-
prietor of the saloon. Raphael Caraffie.
who was arrested after the shooting
charged with a violation of the excise
law. had fastened the side door leading
from the hall door with chain in such
a way that it could be partly opened and
the person applying for admission in
spected before he was allowed to enter.
This, according to Carafie's admission.
was done for the purpose of preventing
a sudden invasion by the police.
How the chain became loose whether
some one inside the saloon quietly lifted
it off its hook or whether it was worked
off by one of the three men who did the
shooting, is not known
Three Men Enter and Shoot.
Antonio and John di Leo were playing
pool at the forward table with two
cousins. They both stood with their
backs to the door. which suddenly swung
open, and three men, who had walked
in through the hallway leading from the
street. stood in the entrance.
without saying word TO any one the
three men levelled three revolvers at the
two brothers and fired. Four shots were
fred, and when the smoke had cleared
away the two brothers were seen lying
on the floor
Patrolman Lerocker was on the block
where the shooting occurred. which is
between First and Second avenues. and
he rushed TO the spot in time to capture
one mar who came running out of the
hallway. He quickly nipped the hand
cuffs on his prisoner and searched him,
but could find no revolver.
Two doors above. at No. $50 East
115th street is the undertaking shop
of Antonio Pa1adino. and the four pis-
tol shots were heard distinctly by some
rnen in the place. who immedia tely tele-
/honed to Police ffeadouarters. which
in turn called up the East, 10th street
to the scene of the shooting
kneeIine Over the Victims.
In the saloon Patrolman Lerocker
found the two Cousins of the men who
were shot. and with whom they had
been playing pool. kneeling over the two
wounded men. crying aloud and pray
ing that their kinsmen be spared from
death. Drs. Langroth and Richardson
who responded TO a hurry call for two
ambulances from the Harlem Hospital
found that Antonio had been instantly
killed by a bullet which entered his
brain, and that John di Leo's skull had
been crushed in and his brain pierced
by another bullet
It was not believed that John would
live long enough TO reach the hospital
and it was not long after he was taken
there that he died.
The man who was captured by Patrol
man Larocker was Michael CiarleIio.
twenty-five years old q butcher by oc-
Cupation. unmarried. and living at No
All East 111th street He was identi-
fed by several persons as one of the
three men who did the shooting, but he
was vehement in his den,als
Crowd Angry at Prisoner.
When the reserves reached the scene.
of
Hammond and Sergeant O'Conner they
found Patrolmen Lerocker and German
facing a threatening mob of several
hundred men and women. The reserves
tried to disperse them by showing them,
but this method was of no avail The
crowd swore and struggled all the more
to seize the trembling prisoner, and it
required a liberal application of the
night stick on some Of those in the front
rank before lane could be made
through the crowd.
No sooner, had way been forced
opeE through which the prisoner was
led away than the wife of the murdered
man. shrieking at the top of her voice,
rushed through and went into the back
room or the sa loon where the body of
her husband lay.
Throwing herself prone on the floor
she threw her arms around the body.
kissing it and calling il endearing
ma mes and pleading with it to rise and
live.
Two brothers of the murdered man
were in the saloon a the time of the
shooting They were Joseph Di Leo
and Alexander D L,o. They were sit
ting at one of TIE small tables. drink
ing and chatting with some friends while
the pool game was in progress. They
declared later at the East 104th street
station. where they were locked up as
material witnesses. that they narrowly
escaped being shot. as two Of the four
bullets which were fred whizzed by
their heads.
Identified in. Station House.
AT the East 10Th street station the
proprietor Of the saloon and the two
surviving Di Leo brothers positively
Identified Ciarlelio as one of the men
who had stood in the doorway and
blazed away The accused man was
lined I'D with the rest of those who
were in the saloon at the time Of the
shooting, and all of whom were locked
IN as material witnesses and the
saIoonl.eeper and the surviving broth