Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-23
SHOT IS
LIKELY TOD|E
OF HIS WOUND
Missing Man Is Blamed for
Wounding Park View Hotel
Employees.

Nicholas Marrano, thirty-one years
old, q porter employed at the Park
View Hotel at Meeker and Elizabeth
avenues, was shot and probably
fatally wounded this morning just as
he commenced his days work at the
| hotel
! He told Frederick Carter, a bar
| tender at the hotel, that he had been
| shot by "Jim,' who worked there as
| porter for about six weeks up to Oc-
tober 19, when he was discharged.
! Jim" first appeared at the hotel in
| answer to an advertisement for a
porter, and nothing Of his history
| ever became known TO his employer
or fellow employees
Marrano lives on Eighth avenue,
but sleeps at the hotel Saturday and
Sunday nights i'll room on the sec
ond floor. On the Sunday night
woke with a feeling that some one
was in the room and search disclosed
Jim" under the bed. He said he had
broke into the place merely to get a
nights sleep as he had no other place
TO go
Marrano at that time drove Jim"
out, the two never having been on
friendly terms. and nothing avs seen
of the discharged porter until this
morn:ns. Marrano arose at 4:45 to-
day, and about fifteen minutes later
went TO the back door to turn out
the electric lights which are kept
burning all night.
The back door is at the end of a
long corridor, on one side of which is
the. dining-room and on the other the
kitchen, while the bar-room is in the
| front of the house. on the same floor.
From the back end of the corridor q
stairway leads to the upper floor, and
] at the head of the stairs is a large
/ dining-room through which the cham
bers are reached. A heavily screened
door, which is kept locked at night. is
+, the only barrier between the stairway
and the dining-room.
Marrano was on hs toes reaching
| for the switch to extinguish the light
when he heard q noise in the kitchen
and turned just as a rifle was dis
charged. He says that Jim fired
| the shot from back of table, resting
the rifle on the table.
The bullet entered Marrano's side,
passed entirely through his body and
the heavy balustrade OF the stairway
and out a window, fiattening itself
against a dad wall. The empty shell
ws found in the kitchen.
| Marrano says that Jim" tried to
shoot again, but changed his mind,
ran past Marrano with the rifle in
his hand, out the back door and down
Meeker avenue to the tracks of the
| Lehigh Valley.
! Marrano went to the barroom,
after being shot, meeting the BAR
tender on the way. said that Jim
! had shot. him. Then he called the
Sixth precinct on the telephone, re-
ported the shooting and waited for
! the ambulance. He walked to the
ambulance but was near collapse
when the City Hospital was reached.
| No motive for the shooting could
be ascribed by Marrano, but Detec-
tives Donnelly and Conlon; of head
quarters. and Policeman Dipley, of
the Sixth precinct, who investigated,
are searching for "Jim," incline 70
! the belief that whoever fired the shot
was interrupted while trying to rob
the place.
The locked screen door leading 20
| the chambers was securely fastened,
but the screen had been cut, making.
an opening about large enough To
| permit man of medium size TO
pass through. Fred Day the pro-
| prletor of the hotel, and brother of
| City Treasurer Elmer A. Day, who
sleeps on the second floor, has con-
siderable sums of money always in
his possession, as well as a valuable
diamond ring and other jewelry.