The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-06
A Well Known Italian Shot
Down in Saloon Saturday
Night During Brawl
MAN ESCAPES SERIOUS INJURY
Two Other Men Who Were in the Sa-
loon at the Time Were Cut About
the Head With Knives.-several Ar
rests Made in the Case.

/ Kenosha came near having a New
Years tragedy as just after seven o.
clock Saturday night James Morini,
twenty-five years old and widely known
among the Italians in the city was shot
down in saloon brawl at a place at
213 Rowland avenue and Michael Lee
oni who is alleged to have done the
shooting escaped and it is thought that
he fled from the city shortly after the
shooting.
! Morini fell with his left side pierced
/ by a bullet from thirty eight calibre
revolver but a half hour later when
the wounded man had been removed
to his home on Market street, few
doors from the saloon it was found
that the bullet had not touched any
vital part 1t had passed through the
fieshy portion OF the left side of Morini
just at the waist line and the bullet
was found in the mans trousers. Mo
RIM suffered considerably from loss of
blood and from the shock of the shoot
ing but the physicians attending him
have little fears but that he will re-
cover.
In the same brawl which resulted
/ h. che of
Perry and Louis Fell, also Italians,
were cut about the head with knives
but neither of them was badly hurt.
They were taken to a nearby drug
store and their wounds dressed and
later they were taken into custody by
the police Half an hour after the
shooting the police were notified of
the crime but when they reached the
saloon they found that the men who
had witnessed the shooting as we'll as
those directly connected with the fight
had fed. More than fifty people stood
about the saloon discussing the shoot
ing, but none of them seemed to be
able TO give any detailed story of the
fight to the officials
From the long list of highly colored
stories told by several Italians it is
! CLEANED that the fight was started some
| ten minutes before the shooting took
place Some of the Italians declare
that it grew out of an argument over
card game while others deny this
statement. At any rate a free-for-all
fight was started in which it seems
that Morini was the object of the at
tack and it seems that at the time of
the shooting three men were engaged
in fight with Morini. When the shot
was fired pandemonium reigned in the
saloon and in second the men who
had been connected with the fight rush
ed to the doors and managed to get
away. In the excitement no one
seemed to deem it necessary to call
the police At first it was thought
THAT Morini was nortally wounded and
half a dozen of his companions
picked him up and carried him to his
home just around the corner and Dr.
Germinario, the italian physician was
called
When the police finally learned Of
the fight they went after the men with
all vigor and for three hours the patrol
wagon was kept running from one
Italian quarter to another but the po-
lice failed to get any line on Leoni.
It is thought that after leaving the
saloon Leoni came down town and went
to the Kenosha hospital to awaits the
coming Of the victims of the brawl as
man closely following the description
of the would-be murderer was seen
about the hospital half hour after
the shooting. The police did not learn
of that fact until midnight and when
they learned of it Leoni was not to
be found. It was thought possible
that he fed to Chicago and the Chicago
police were asked to make an effort
to pick him up in that city.
Morini, the injured man, was at one
time the proprietor of the Log Cabin
saloon on Main street and he has fig
ured in several cases in the courts as
a result of arrests made on his COM
plant. It is declared by some of the
Italians that band of the countrymen
of Morini had it in for him and these
people declare that the fight in the
saloon was started with a view of Civ
ing these men chance to "get" Mo-
RIM.
Miss Theresa Kaas of Chicago, spent
New Years Day and Sunday with Mr..