Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-06
BLUECOAT, VICTIM
OF GUNMAN, DEAD;
ANOTHER is DYING
Edward Murtha Killed in Brook
Iyn Attempting to Search
Gangster.
POLICE SAVE MURDERER
FROM ANGRY CITIZENS
James o'connor, Who Tried to
Stop Slayer, MortaIIy
Wounded.

NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-Policeman
Edward Murtha. Of the Butler street
station. was shot and mortally
wounded early today at Fourth and
Hoyt streets Brooklyn, by a young
Italian. who, a moment later. shot
down. a civilian who tried to seize
him. Murtha died some hours later
in the Holy Family Hospital. Pur-
sued by half dozen policemen, who
exchanged shots with him, the man
fled for ten blocks, with a mob in
pursuit before he was caught and
felled by a revolver butt at Bond and
Degraw streets. The mob fought to
get at the Italian and was prevented
from wrealing vengeance on him
only by the nightsticks OF the police
reserves. who surrounded him and
fought their way through the throng.
which hurled bottles and bricks at
the prisoner.
o'Connor May Recover.
Murtha and James O'Connor, of No.
1888 Warren street, the civilian who
tried to seize the Italian, were taken
to the Holy Family Hospital. The
, bullet which struck Murtha was
found to be lodged so near the heart
that the surgeons said to probe for
! it would only hasten his death.
| OConnor was shot through the
stomach, and the surgeons also fear
to probe for the bullet in his case.
They say he has a chance to recover.
| The prisoner, taken after the wild
chase, says he is Giuseppe Arino,
twenty-five years old, and lives In
Avenue A, between Twelfth and
Fourteenth streets. Detectives Clare
and Regan took him, manacled. to
Holy Family Hospital, where, they
say, he was identified by Murtha and
O'Connor as their assailant
! When Murtha went out on post II
was with instructions to keep a sharp
| watch for suspicious characters, as
there were rumors that Black Hand
threats had been made to set off a
bomb in the Italian colony through
which hfs post ran. He saw slender
lyopng italian at Fourth and Hoyi
istreets acting in a manner which
picions. He walked over to the mar
| and demanded what he was doing
The igsan growled an unintelligible re
isponse, ana Murtha started to run hi
hands over thk-. italian s pockets Il
see IL Hes had any weapons. As b.
1 did ihis the Italian whipped out {
| heavy revolver from a shoulder
holster under his coat and sent a
bullet into Murtha's breast just be.
low the heart.
Murtha kept his feet for moment,
long enough to blow his whistle, and
then fell to the sidewalk. The italian
ran around the corner and fed down
Hoyt street toward Third street
OConnor. out for stroll, saw Arinc
coming with three policeman, at
tracted by Murtha's whistle, in pur-
suit.
Mob in Hot Pursuit.
O'Connor leaped forward to seize
the fugitive and caught hold of his
coat. The italian swung around and
pressing the muzzle of his revolver
against O'Connor's stomach, fired. As
Arino continued his flight more thar
a hundred men were in pursuit as hs
reached First street. At Bond street
Policeman Patrick Griffen, one of the
first to take up the chase, neared hin
and fired. Arino swung around and
shot twice at the policeman, who re
turned the fire.