The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-15
ITALIAN fEUO
LEADS To MURDER
FURIOUS SHOOTING ARRAY or
SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK
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CITY.
STARTLES EAST SIDE !
ONE MAN DEAD, ANOTHER DYING
TWO CHILDREN IN SERIOUS
CONDITION AS RESULT
OF ATTACK.

! New York June 1.-THE banging
Of pistols, screams curses and a clat-
ter Of running feet in East Fourteenth
street just before noon today. while
high mass was being celebrated In st.
7 Stephens Roman Catholic church,
emptied the church and startled the
neighborhoed not unused to sounds Of
violence,
When the worsh!ppers, leaving
Father FroelIch almost alone at tina
altar s1arraed to the street and min
gled with the crowd that came from
tenements and cafes, they saw man
easpinE out mis- life in the roadway
nearly In front Of the entrance to St
stephens TWO little children, boy
and a girl, were trying to walk, but
were falling at every step, A man
was staggering druukenly toward Ave.
nue A. badly hurt, but with one
thought In his mind, 70 get away from
the police. Four men VINO had been
firing reviewers deliberately were Just
dIsappearinE through the basement
door Of . tenement.
THE murder was caused indirectly
by the Italian custom Of settling feuds
and riChtlne wrongs without benefit
OF the police.
Salvatore PetIegrini the man who
was shot to death, kept a furnished
room house st sos East fourteenth
street He was thrty-two years old
and lived with his wife and two BROTH
ers in -rooming house. Two weeks
ago one Of the brothers Leo, was held
up near his home and robbed by two
Italians Of a gold watch and chain
and a little money. The boy thought
Z he recognized the hold-up men, but
finstead Of going 10 the police and
making = complaint he told his broth
ers the name of the men he susp ected.
! \ Little Knife Work.
| A fen days after Leo was robbed,
Salvatore the Oldest brother. led the
( Pellegrinis in an attack upon the
Italians under suspicion. There was
a little knife work after the Gala
brian manner and the Felligrinis con-
sidered themselves justified in reliev-
ing their enemies Of some articles Of
cheap jeweiry and few dollars in
cash. The police heard nothing about
this until after the murder today.
At 1855 today Salvatore ana WILL
liam Pelligrini were taking the sum
shine on the stoop of their home.
While the brothers talked two Ital-
fians approached the stoon gave ami
able greeting and iinzered a few min
utes Then salvatore and Wiil!anl so.
up from the steep and started east
ward with the two newcomers. They
we're ia front Of a. tenement house at
excita IDLY. when three man dartee from
the basement door OF AS. They
fIourished reviewers
The men who had lured the Pelle-
grin.s SUDDENLY jerked away and ran
westward. The gunner began firing.
One shot finished Salvatore who fell
with a bullet in his brain William
got twenty feet from the gunner be-
fore bullet hit him in the back.
He went TO his knees, bur MANAGED
TO regain his feet. He started to run
one Of the gunner stepped to the
middle 81 the street and fired four
shots
! Fail OF Bullets.
one shot hit Pelle GRIM, but did not
halt him Another stuck Jennie ran
faonizo, FIVE years old OF s22 East
Fourteenth street, in the calf of the
right leg A third bullet hit Felle-
grim. who was fifty yards away. He
STUN hled and fell. but picked him.
self up once more and turned into
Avenue a The last shot fred hit
baby, Tony Pastialioni. two and \ half
wears old. in the left ankle.
As the congregation af St Stephens
poured into the street and hundreds
iran from tenements and cafes, the
.gunnaen slipped away through the en-
trance to Ne AIS Policeman Buck
ley, who had been two blocks away
when the shooting began, called an
am bulance from Bellevue hospital,
whera Salvatore Pellegrini was taken.
He died half an hour later. William
Pelleerni, desperately hurt, with two
bullets in his back and one in the.
back Of his neck. managed to stagger
as far as Avenue A and Twenty Sec
,3nd street, where Policeman Burke
caught him as ne was about to col
lapse The policeman got an express
WAGON and took Peilegrini to Belize
y-ue The doctors said tonight that
he has = poor chance of recovery. The
Injured children were cared for at
Bellevue No arrests had been made
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