The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-04
VICTIM OF PISTOL
 AFFRAY SILENT AS
 TO WHO SHOT HIM
REFUSES TO INCRINIINATE MAN WHO SHOT HIM NOW UNDER
 ARREST.

Two of the gang of toughs who ire
 quent the resorts in Water street be-
 tween Union Square and State street
 engaged in a, shooting affray yester- day afternoon that afforded a. sensa-
 t1onal spectacle for Dystanders, and
 threw Main street from State to Gil
 bert streets into the semblance of a panic.
 In the city court today Felice Napp, aged "A, of 181 North Washington ave- nue, who claims to be stone cutter. was held in bail of $1, 800 for hearing on Saturday, March 12. in the city court. By. that time it is expected that the victim. Andrew Troppani, will
 Yesterday afternoon while surgeons were probing for the bullet that en- tered Troppani's groin and proceeded down his right leg, the assailant was brought before him in the emergency
 HIs this the feIlow?' asked the po- lice.
 Troppani refused to identify him. Yet the police declare there is no doubt that he is the man who did the shooting, and they say the refusal of the victim to identify him is simply an indication of the lawlessness of the gang that frequents the resort They prefer to settle their own scores. and won't invoke the aid of the police to help them
 ne Spaghettl house and the ganG that frequents it has been an eyesor. to the city for many months. It har DOTS a motley crew of disreputabIe women and a gang of toughs who in provided by the women with whom they consort. About four months ago the police stumbled across a man in the street who had been shot and left were made and at considerable expense the police and prosecuting authorities 1nterrogated many witnesses but the ease ended in a fizzle and the man who is said to have done the shooting never suffered
 Immunity from punishment has made the toughs bolder than usual of late. Yesterday afternoon Napp, who holds forth in Italian saloon ad- joining the Spaghetti house. entered the 3 eating .hs house to collect. it is said, one of Troppani's creditors. Tropanni is one of the proprietors of the Spa ghetti house He refused payment, and according to one of the many stor- ies the police have unearthed, he was the first to draw a pistol.
 Half a dozen bullets were exchanged and another just grazed his left hand. Another struck the horse of Mark Wedge, a produce dealer of Union Square, standing in the street, taking Troppani lying on the walk, Napp took to flight running north in Wa ter street to State street. Patrolman Bray came running down from Bank street. hearing the shots. and seeing Napp run up State street brandishing the pistol and frightening pedestrians into railways and stores. he leaped in- to a buggy and started in hot pursuit. He drove up to Main street and turn ed south after Napp.
 When the latter had gone two blocks. he turned at the corner of Gilbert street. and 1evel1ing his revolver at a crowd in pursuit sent them scurrying in fright in all directions. Bray dashed down Union Square running parallel to Napp, and he encountered the fugitive just as Dockmaster John Mosel of the N. r.. N. H. & H. R. R. Go. rushed up to him. Napp tossed his pistol away. but it was promptly recovered. The ambulance and auto patrol reached the scene almost the same time, one to take the victim to the emergency hospital, the other to take Napp to police headquarters.
 Refusal of the victim to identify Napp as his assailant led the police to seek a number of witnesses with whom they will seek to convict the in event of Troppani's contin- ued refusal to irnplicate him.