Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-10
VICTIM
TRAITOR TO BLACK !.
HAND, IS BELIEVED.
Authorities Hedge in
Case with Unusual
Mystery.
WOUNDED MAN LIVES;
POLICE SAY HE'S SLAIN
Dying Man Known TO Hundreds.
Police Still Are Seoretive
About Identity.

mysteries multiplied today IN the
strange shooting of supposedly un-
identified man in the Soho section
of Bloomfield early Saturday. Al
though tie prosecutors office created
an impression at first that it was a
case of murder, the victim is still
alive today in the Mountainside Hos
pital.
His name has been discovered.
despite the secrecy of the authorities.
He is Salvatore Gallo, of % Bedford
street this city.
Gallo is apparently the victim of
the swift and unerring revenge of the
Black Hand organization that is said
to have been terrorizing the Italian
business men of Essex county for the
past ten years.
That he knew the secrets of this
society and was ready to reveal them,
even if he Mad not already done so,
seems to be the only plausible ex-
PLANTATION of the unprecedented in
terest taken in his case by Chief
Weimer, of the prosecutors staff.
Gallo is said to have possessed
knowledge that would have cleared
up number of the most battling
murders and bomb outrages of the
last six or seven years.
Victim Has Unusual History.
Gallo's history is a strange one.
He was paroled from the Essex
county jail, where he had been com
mitted for alleged larceny, on March
8, last Wednesday
The Italian neighborhood heard
g., y &c
released Even his sister, Mrs. Philip
Sarno, of 30 Bedford street. hardly
credited it when she was told that
Gallo was out.
But Gallo kept himself out of
sight Early, Saturday morning he
staggered into asdance at the Blooms
field High School. Covered with blood
from six wounds and utterly exhaust
ed he gasped one word, shot"
Between 8 and o'clock that morn
ing it became generally known in the
foreign sections of Newark that Gallo
was sin trouble Men gathered in
the saloons and shrugged their shoul-
ders over his shooting. His sister
soon heard about it and even the
children playing on the streets rea-
lized that some sort of an event Of
extraordinary interest had just taken
place.
The prosecutors office and the po-
lice of three municipalities showed
like interest. Although the case was
not one of homicide. Walter Godfrey,
chief of the homicide department, an
nounced that an unknown man had
been murdered and that he was try
ing 10 find the slayers. Chief Weimer
went further and obtained two men
from police headquarters to aid in
the hunt.
And all this activity, practically
without counterpart in the history of
the prosecutors office, was taken, al
though the case on it's face was ap-
parently only one of attrocious as
sault and battery-a saloon or gam
bling row.
While the prosecutors Office is will
ing to admit today that the man is
not dead, it is asserted. nevertheless,
that he is dying. He is said to have
one bullet wound in the head, one in
the neck, two in the back, one in the
right arm and one in the right hand.
Said to Be Resting Easy
At the Mountainside Hospital, how
lever, the information was given that
he had passed a good night and was
resting easily" although still in a
serious condition.
Gallo had not been in jail long
when he was paroled on last Wednes-
day. A warrant was issued for his
arrest on January by Justice of the
Peace Joseph Vicarizi. of a Heckel
street, Silver Lake, Belleville.
On January q Constable Ernest
Zimmerman appeared at the Office of
Justice of the Peace Charles L. Med
enbach. II Howard street this city
with the warrant and Gallo.
Medenbach held the prisoner in $500
bail for the grand jury and committed
him in default.
Il have no record of who made the
complaint" said Medenbach today
According to Mrs. Sarno Gallo has
been in this country ten years. The
first three months he lived in Tren-
ton. Then he came to Newark, where
he has since lived
The crux of the case seems to lie
in the fact that Gallo threatened to
"squeal" His punishment was short
and summary and the prosecutor
detectives apparently realize that
without a statement from Gallo 1t
will be next to impossible to capture
his would-be assassins.