Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-25
FATAL SHOOTING
ATP0RTLAND'S
LITTLE ITALY
Bernaldo PernettO Held in $1O,-
600 Bonds to Await Hearing
Mystery Surrounds Whole
Affair

Portland, Me-, April 24.-Mystery
which apparently only two men in the
world can clear up surrounds the
shooting affray which took place short
ly after o'clock last night at 81 Fore
street, and which cost Giovanni Flea
tell his life, and put Agostino Caisli
in the Maine General hospital with q
gaping wound in his breast
Caisli himself accused Of having fired
the shots that killed Ficatelli is one Of
the men who knows what it was all
about. but while his condition is not
serious, he is not in a position today
to throw any light on the affair Last
night, however, he accused Bernaldo
Pernetto.
Bernaldo Pernetto, who was ar
raigned in the municipal court this
morning, charged with manslaughter
and held in $4,000 bail for a hearing
on May 3. is believed by the police to
be the other man, who could explain
things, but has failed as yet to clean
up the cause of the affray. 1t Is be-
lieved that there had been for more
than year bad feeling between Caisli
and the dead man, but no one has yet
come forward to say what gave rise to
it, or explain what brought It to a Gull
mination last night. What became of
the guns with which the shooting was
done is also at present a mystery.
According to the stories of witnesses
rounded up by the police last night
Caisli, F'icattelli and Pernetto were
standing at the gate leading into the
alley at the left of the house at 81 Fore
street, where the dead man resided
They all showed evidence of having
been drinking, and to witnesses 1t ap-
peared as if Caisli and Pannetta were
endeavoring to get Ficatelli to go into
his house. He seemed to refuse. and they
declared that he was mad and whipped
out a revolver, firing a shot in the air.
At this, they say, Caisli pulled a gun
and fired three shots point blank at Fl
catelli, who fell in a heap on the side
walk.
To a newspaper man this morning Mrs
Ficateln told what she knew of the af-
fair, which was little "Caisli came tc
our house last night she said land
asked for some beer. We had none and
my husband told him that He said to
COME up 10 HIS MUSE anu have SOIilc dHu
my husband went out with him. l didn't
see them any more until after my hus-
band was brought into the house bleed
ing
Asked if there was any enmity be.
tween her husband and Caisli she said
she did not know of any, or of any cause
for it.
| When the police auto with Patrolmar
Reuben johnson and Dorsey and Special
| Officer Ridge arrived at the scene OF
the shooting on Fore street last night
Ficatelli had been removed from the side
walk and was seated in a chair in the
kitchen of his home with blood flowing
| from wounds in his abdomen. DR.. J. X
I Davis, who had been summoned, founC
that bullets had lodged in his back neal
| the spine and the man was taken to the
Maine General hospital without further
delay. He died shortly before 3 o'clock
After calling at 81 Fore street the off
GERS hurried to Newbury street. where
they found Caisli also seated in chair
stripped to the waist with gaping
wound in his right breast. He was also
taken to the hospital and today was re-
ported in a favorable condition.