The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-04-10
PREACHER, SANDDAGGED, DIES
TWO MEN ATTACK HIM UNDER
QCEENSBORO BRIDGE.

1Aigi Csay Was . student and Assistant
Psstor-Fsoy saw Murder and Fol.
lowed Man whom . woman Joined
No Reason Ascertained for Crime.
Luigi Usay. an Italian student in the
Bible Teachers Training School and
assistant pastor OF the John Hall Memorial
Chapel at Sixty-flrst street and First
avenue. was sandbagged late Saturday
afternoon at First avenue and Fifty
ninth street by two men. He died yes
| terday noon at Flower Hospital without
having fully regained consciousness
! A man named Otto Schafer OF HI
Fast Sixty fourth street was arrested
last night at Sixty-second street. and
Second avenue by Detective McGee
and locked up on charge Of homicide.
According TO Mc(Iee Schaifer admitted
having a fight with an Italian yesterday
afternoon under the Greensboro Bridge
and said his wife had complained that
an Italian had insulted her there. Schaffer
says he had been drinking and meeting
an Italian he had not seen before accused
him Of insulting his wife. The Italian
struck at him and he hit back. knocking
the man down As he fell the mans head
struck against the stone work Of the
bridge. Schatfer left him lying there.
Thomas Cronin. a fourteen year-old
boy living at 81 Sutton place. told the
police the best story Of the encounter.
He was playing tag near where First
avenue goes under the Greensboro
Bridge and saw three men there. One
OF them fell TO the sidewalk. but Thomas
could not say which one struck Usay
nor what he was struck with.
The two other men at once set out on
the run and went through the arch to
Sixtieth street Here one Of them. he
said. went into Moran's saloon on the
corner OF First avenue and the other
. ran TO Second avenue and turned north.
When he saw that the boy was following
. him he told the youngster to quit chasin
him. A woman with q baby appeared
then who seemed to be with the fleeing
, man, and she also told the boy to let the
man alone.
, The boy kept on. though. and was the
only one in pursuit. He says he saw the
, man board northbound surface car. get
on and then board another going in the
same direction.
Thomas then went back to the scene
Of tho encounter and found Policeman
4 James Tierney on the job. Tierney got
, an ambulance from the Flower Hospital
rode to the hoapital with the unconscious
man, and then went back and started a
search for the man who had run into the
saloon. The boy. who went with him
could pick out no one who resemblec
either Of the assailsnts.
Young Cronin described the man who
! entered he saloon as an Italian in work
! mans clothes and wearing cap. The
4 man who escaped on the car. he said. was
. not foreigner. wore dark suit. sloucf
n hat. had no front teeth. was young anc
: Of medium build The woman who rar
u with him seemed to be his wife. She
could not be found later either.
Detective Mc(;ee Of the Central Office
: but attached to the West Sixty seventh
Z street station, went out with Thomas las
night in hopes that he might identify one
. of the assailants in the neighborhood.
II From another witness it was Learned
that Usay was engaged in the beginning
OF the encounter with a lone man ant
! that the toothless man with the slouci
II hat ran across the street and felled Usa,
= with something that resembled sand
bag.
At the autopsy performed by DIR
Schultz it was found out that death wal
:. caused by blow Of eandbag over th'
left ear which had fractured the skull
. in three places. Coroner Winterbotton
has been assigned TO the case.
a Usay lived AT 2Ss East Sixtieth street
: which is the Italian branch OF the Bibl'
y Teachers Training School. where abou
!. twenty young Italian students make the
9 home. The Rev. W. ". Ketchum. secre
tary OF the school. said last night that III
t thought Usay had been in this countr,
u about five years.
y He was 20 years old and had been 9
3. student for the ministry two years.
l. Besides being an assistant TO the Rev
3 Thomas Trepani. the pastor OF the Johl
Hall Memorial Chapel. Usay was activel.
Ia interested in mission work among hi
:. countrymen and did some work for tn
1t Evangelical Committee OF New York.
y No motive for tho assault has beel
uncovered Usay had some money an,
e a watch with him, but these were no
" disturbed. He was a Sicilian and use'
10 to be q socialist He also had friend
,r among the anarchists, but it was said b.
his friends that they thought he ha
given up his radical beliefs when he wa
:. converted in a tent meeting couple q
years ago
le His friends were sure that Usay worke
among his Sici'ian and anarchistic friend
" for the purpose OF converting them an
n did not indulge in any Of their activities
m Usay's habits we're good. He never LEI
in the student home after hours.
ID 1t is tho opinion of the police that h
!, was the victim OF the revenge Of som
Ia countryman Of his who laid in wait ia
"a him under the Queensboro Bridge. whic
W il deserted even in the afternoon an
4 which is in the route Usay would take i
going from the main building Of tn
w Bible Teachers Training School at 81
y. Lexington avenue to the John Hall Nc
"a mortal Chapel.