Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-09-11
POLICEMAN HIT
BY BULLET THAT
WOUNDED NEGRO
BIuecoat Adubato's Gun Dis
charged During ScuffIe
in North End.
BATTLE DURING RAID
ON RIVER ROAD SHED
Policeman Stichter Did Not
Know He Was Hurt for
Some Time.

! An accidentally discharged bullet
| from the revolver of Policeman
Thomas s. Audubato, of the Eighth
precinct, went through the thigh of
Claude Mallory and into the leg of
Policeman Andrew R. Stichter, of the
Eighth precinct, about 1:3O this
morning during a raid on a crap
game.
Mallory, a negro, who lives at 149
Oraton street, is in the City Hospital.
but not In serious condition.
Policeman Stichter reported back
| for duty after his wound was dressed
at the City Hospital Captain Caffrey
said after an investigation of the
affair, that he believed the shooting
an unavoidable accident.
The crap-shooters were employees
of the Cauldwell- Wingate Company,
contractors, engaged in building the
portion of the Passaic Valley sewer
which crosses the Newark -Belleville
line. When they quit work yesterday
they started a crap game in a shanty
just off the River road near Second
river, and everything went along
fairly smooth until about midnight
| Then an argument started which re-
suited in one of the players quitting
the game. Seven remained.
Shortly after l o'clock this morning
telephone message to the Eighth
precinct warned Acting Lieutenant
John Brady that a crap game and
battle royal were under way in the
| shanty and that serious consequences
might be looked for unless prompt
action was taken.
Policemen Schmidt and Ries were
sent out with the wagon with in
structions to pick all the policemen
they could find en- route and just then
| Policeman Audubato sent in a duty
call. He was instructed to gather
help and go along. With him went
| Policemen Stichter, Sweet and Nc
| Cormick.
They found the shanty without
trouble and with drawn revolvers and
clubs broke in. Policeman Andubato
was in front and had his club in one
hand and revolver In the other. In
spite of the disadvantage he grabbed
! Mallory, the negro, with the left hand
and Paul Bendelli with his right
hand. All the crap shooters were
without coats or vests, making 1t
] dificultsto get a grip on them.
Audubato and his two prisoners
were struggling in the dark, the Ian
| terms which Illuminated the shanty
having been eXtinguished in the
scuffle. AS the three were jostling
their way through the door of the
shanty the policeman stumbled and
the revolver was discharged.
Hustled Into Wagon.
Policeman Stichter, who was out
side the door, grabbed one of Audu-
| bato's prisoners and both were hus-
men rounded up the rest of the game
sters and all were brought to the
Eighth precinct except Mallory, who
was sent to the City Hospital in
| charge of Policeman Schmidt
After the party had been booked
| in the Eighth precinct station, Police
man Stichter said, I'm feeling kind
| of funny; | wonder If I was shot,
| too" AS he looked towards his foot
a slight trickle of blood was noticed
running down his shoe and he was
hurried to the hospital in a passing
automobile.
The police later arrested Robert
Noonan, of 759 Highland avenue. At
first he said he did not send the tele
| phone message and was not in the
crap game, but later admitted that
he was in the game. He chung to his
story however, about knowing
nothing about the telephone mes
sage.
! In the Second Precinct Court to-
day the men were arraigned before
Judge Mancusi- -Ungaro. The fore
man of the job on which the men were
| employed declared that Bendelli and
Wilburt, who gave the name "Wil-
kins,' were in the tool shanty about
their work. They were discharged,
but the negroes and Noonan were
| fined $40 each for gambling.
The men at the station house de-
scribed themselves thus: Paul Ben
delli, 202 Eighth avenue; Albert Will
kins, Verona avenue, Arlington;
Henry Nee, 429 Washington avenue;
Arthur Nee, 13 Northend terrace;
Thomas Slaughton, II Wilburton
place, and Arthur Stancell, 621 Fifth
street. The last four are negroes.
| After the men were booked they told
the police that the person who sent
the warning message was the en-
gineer on the job with them, who
had been in the game all night until
his luck got bad and he was put out
| of the game for trying to play on
credit.
I'VE wouldn't stand for no jawbone
bets, and he got sore" one of the
prisoners told the police, and they at
once started to look for the engineer,
described only as "Noonan.'