The evening world., 1911-05-31
John Madonie Badly Injured
by Explosion Which
Wrecks His Flat.
WHOLE BLOCK IN PANIC.
Bandits Suspected Grocer of
Giving Aid to Police-Killed
Nephew on March 8.

B~lachhanders came 80 near 10 get
ting" John Madonie this morning that
II is n wonder that he Is still alive to
try and throw tho police or the trail.
HIS legs are full OF nails driven into
him by the bomb placed outside OF the
door OF his Hat. on the second floor OF
No. 1896 Elizabeth street. The nails were
In the bomb. a crude. homemade AFFAIR,
which let loose with enough noise to
send the whole block flying to the
OF tenement houses was about 20 come
tumbling down. The more excited ones
fired revolvers. the Hremen we're called
out. and the reserves of the Elizabeth
street station. plain clothes men and
Headquarters detectives got into action.
The B~.ackhanders have been trying
to get Madonie ever since March s.,
when they shot and killed his nephew.
Giovanni lombard. as he was entering
the hallway OF No. . Prince street at
1910 Ia the evening.
They pumped four bullets Into young
Lombardl. because they thought that
he had told his uncle who were re-
sponsiblc for the dynamiting OF the
Prince street Rouse on Oct. 10. 1910, and
ton on to the police.
Madonie runs a little grocery store on
the ground floor of the Elizabeth street
house. His daughters. Resale. aged
twenty. and Annie. eighteen. and their
cousins. Grace and Frances Loyke, oc-
cupy a bedroom In the rear. of the
hall. OF his second floor apartment.
EXPLOSION LIFTS DOOR FROM
ITS HINGES.
About 80 o'clock to-day Grace Ioyke
was awakened by footsteps In the hall,
and heard mumbied cugses. She was
about to look out when there came the
explosion which lifted the door of It's
hinges.
The bomb had been placed against the
door OF the bedroom occupied by Ma
donle and his wife. Marie. The door
was blown In. and hurled against the
bed. The door from the bedroom to the
kitchen was also blown out. and the
bomb tore u hole In the flooring through
~ So 6sS,ssy otoIC, 0DOok tWo k96I
long and ten inches wide.
Across tho hall are the rooms occupied
by Vincenzio Dereisi. his wife Charlotte.
and his two daughters. Marie. aged II,
and Rosie. Is. The door OF tho Dereisl
apartments was blown In md hurled
against the chandelier. which was car
ried away. The transom of the room
occupied by the girls was shattered,
and splinters Of glass fell all about
them.
ESCAPING GAS ALMOST cHokEs
SCARED TENANTS.
The plasterinE In both apartments was
ripped from walls and ceilings, and the
hallway where the bomb was set of
was stripped clean down to the iathing
Heavy volumes OF gas. escaping from
the broken chandelier filled the Dereis
rooms. and quickly spread to the rest OF
the house. from which oil the tenants
fled. shrieking at the tops Of their
voices. and half-cnoked by the fumes.
No one was hurt except the mar
whom the B~lackhanders were after
There were at least . hundred nails In
the bomb. and nearly half OF these were
blown into Madonie's logs.
Policeman Dumford was at Prince
and Mulberry streets when the bomb
went off. n as he ran toward the
place the street became black with
panic-stricken people who had fled TO
the street.
The first thing Dumford did was 10
dig the Madonies and the Loykes and
the Dereisies out from under the ruins.
Then he ran to the quarters OF Hook
and Ladder Company No. 8 and got
Capt. Reilly TO send some men around
TO stop the gas leak.
When the detectives began question
ing Madonie. he declared he had never
had any trouble with anybody. to say
nothing OF Blackhanders. and had never
received any threatening letters. But
the detectives kept after him and he
finally admitted hat the B~lackhanders
were trying to get him" ever since
they killed his nephew, Lombard