New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-15
FOUR ITALIANS SHOT
Man and Young Nephew Arrest
ed After ARRAY in The Bronx.
BOTH EXPECTED TO DIE
Police Say Boy Was Aggressor
Parents Wounded When
Uncle Returned Fire.

That section OF The Bronx known "a
Little italy wac the scene yesterday OF
shooting ARRAY IN the home OF Angelo
Vialletta. Of No 245 East 14sth street, near |
Morris avenue A minute before the firing |
began residents Of the neighborhood were
stroIIing along the streets laughing and
nlavJng or drinking chianti, as is the GUS
tom In Italian quarters on sunday. The
scene changed quickly. however. and the
settlement was thrown into state Of Wild
exc,tement by the sound OF fusillade OF
revolver shots.
When the list Of injured was counted UP
~ was found that vialetta his cousin,
James Gigantic. sixteen years old; Mrs
Rose Gigantic, his mother. and Frank Gi-
santo. his father. had been wounded by
bullets. vianetta and the Gigantic boy are
said 70 be seriously injured. Both are
prisoners.
vialletts liz employed as foreman by
Bronx contractor. He was working yes-
terday afternoon until O'Clock. In com
pany with his cousin, Nicholas Mongrosse,
~ No. zs1 East 14Sth street. he reached his
home shortly afterward AS Vialletta.
powerful man, set his foot in the hallway
and was about TO walk into the Kitchen his
Youthful cousin. James Gigantic. OF No. 9n5
Fast 150th street. appeared al the end Of
the hallway. on the threshold of the
kitchen. Without uttering a word he
whipped a revolver from his pocket. It II
said. and opened fire. the weapon almost
touching Vialletta's body.
Mongrosse ran AT the first sign OF trou-
BILE. and just what happened during the
next few minutes IS shrouded in mystery.
II is known that Viallettas wife was IN
the upper part of the house az the time.
and that before the foreman arrived at his
home the Gigantos-father mother and
SOn-were seated in the Vialletta kitchen
They had been waiting there for hours
What their object was IN sitting so quietly
IN the kitchen they didn't explain. For All
Mrs. Vfalletta knew, her husbands rela-
tives had come to pay q social sunday
visit So she regarded their presence there
and busted herself about her homework.
As soon as the voice OF the stalwart
Vislletta was heard at the front door,
however, the Gigantic family were stirred
into sudden activity. James. the boy, stole
silently from his chair. hi, eyes filed with
q dangerous glitter and his thin brown
hands working nervously. He stationed
himself behind the kitchen door and. with
fnger on lip. cautioned his parents not
to betray him They remained seated.
passive and immovahle.
After the Gigantic boy had fred two
shots a. Vianetts. according 70 the police.
the latter drew hts own revolver and
roured 4 stream Of shots a. those IN no
Kitchen. Mrs Gigantic was shot IN the
nose. the bullet psssng out through her
right eye Frank Gigantic was shot IN the
right side IF the body and dropped 10 the
floor. The hoy wes laid low by a bullet
IN the left lung. but he and his father
eap-d 70 their feet and ran 10 the street
'hev went 70 drug store az Morris ave
nue snd 18th street. where they were
found BY The polio. and taken 70 Idrcolr
Hospital.
Mrs. Rose Gigantic, after being sho-. ran
INTO the rear yard. her hand 70 the wound
N her face She then re-entered the house
end ran 10 the front door, where she fell
unconscious She. TOO, was taken 30 the
hospital in one Of the three ambulance.
which were called
Vialletta ives shot tric.--cnce IN the right
Jung and once In the back. In spite ~
these wounds. either one Of which might
prove fatal, he ran across the street
leaped over a fence between 18Th and li5th
streets and dropped on The sidewalk. None
~ the wounded would make statement
The police Of the Alexander avenue sta
ton were soon working on the case After
search they found one revolver in the
Vialletta home where q had been hastily !
hidden. Only two bullets had been fired
lanes Gigantic and Vislletta are charged
With felonious assault. but It is doubtful
~ either will live 70 face tho charge