New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-05
Whole Police Force Reused by
Killing of Two Comrades
and One Gunman by
Unknown Assassin.
ALL THE SLEUTHS ON CASE
Waldo Puts Every Available
Plainclothes Man to Work
to Run Down Slayer
and Wipe Out
the Gangs.

Aroused by the shooting late Satur-
day night of two patrolmen, William
Heaney, who was instantly killed, and
Charles J. Teare. who died early last
evening, the Police Department started
yesterday an unprecedented campaign
to rid the city of lawless gangs. Act
ing under direct orders from Commits
sioner Waldo all Italians doing detec-
tive duty in the department were as
signed to the case.
Both policemen were shot after the
murder Of John Rizzo alias kid" Nor
gan, alias Ralph" who. according TO
the police. had been involved in several
shooting affrays and has served a term
in the Elmira reformatory. The three
murders were committed at a pool and
billiard room at No. 237 Mulberry
street
The drastic action Of the Police Com
missioner Is due to the many gang
recently. The gang men" have been
operating in open defiance Of the po-
lice.
Called TO His Death.
The shooting. II is believed, was
started by several men. 1t was about
midnight when Rizzo was called out
Of the poolroom on Mulberry street on
the pretence OF meeting a friend. No
sooner had he reached the street than
shots were fred, which proved fatal
Attracted by the shots. Heaney and
Teare, less than block away, ran to
the scene and to their death. A man
was seen to run into tenement house
at No. 239 Mulberry street, from which
Matillo Lorito was taken TO police
headquarters. He denied the triple
murder, but admitted that he. had been
| shot by Rizzo at Prince and Mulberry
streets in December. At the time he
refused to tell who shot him, saying
! that he would take care of the case
| himself.
Lorito was held for forty-eight hours
by Coroner Feinberg and remanded 10
the Tombs as a suspicious person IN
connection with the shooting Of the
two patrolmen.
Ralph Sarretto, twenty-seyen years
old of No. 239 Mulberry street, was
also held by the Coroner as a mate
rial witness. He was taken 70 the
House Of Detention. The police are
OF the belief that both know mora
about the affair than they are willing
10 tell
While the police are inclined to the
belief that Lorito was actually impli-
Gated in the murder of all three, they
are trying to locate an Italian known
10 them only as Joe, the Wop." He,
they believe, is directly responsible fer
the killings
Rizzo Known to Police.
William Heaney was probationary
patrolman, twentysix years old, and
lived at No. III Prospect Place, Brook
lyn. Patrolman Teare was thrty-six
years OIQ anu llNtu dt NJ 200 hitcH-
wich street. He joined the force in
1901. With him when he died at ST.
Vincents Hospital were his widowed
mother and his brother, Fire Captain
Robert Teare, in command of Engine
Company 43, on Sedgwick avenue. The
Bronx.
Rizzo was thirty-five years old and
was out on $1,000 bail in connection
with an attempt in April TO shoot Is-
dore Streir, a tailor. of No. 800 Metro
politan avenue. Brooklyn. At the time
Rizzo figured in sensational chase
on the subway tracks between Spring
and Canal streets. where he mad ran
In an attempt to escape arrest. RiZzo
was engaged to protect strike break
ers.
The Rev. Father Gill, OF st. Pat
rick's Church, at Mulberry and Prince
streets, saw the shooting from the rec
tory window. He administered the last
rites to RizZo and Heaney.