New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
Italian Killed by volley
From East Side Door;
3 Women and 3 Men i'm
Crowded Street Struck
Death to Infor1ners'
Is Cunrnan's Shout
Gang That Kidnapped and
Slew Boy Believed To
Be ON Terror Reign

One man was killed and three women
and three men wounded in revolver
battle fought by Italians at Schiff Park.
way and Chrystie Street early this
morning. Police believe that the varotta
murder may have brought about the
fight.
Although it WAS after midnight hum
dreds were seated on the sidewalks
outside tenement houses, and the
fusillade of shots that came from
Shrystie Street wounded three of five
women outside 16 Schiff Parkway.
The man killed was found shot
through the head across the street
from where the women fell wounded
He is Vincenzo Alfalo, 8 Prince Street
The wounded are:
Nicholas Ventura, address unknown;
will probably die.
lssac Feldman, painter, 1887 Forest
Avenue, shot in right thigh.
Edward Niepotti, COL West 18TH
Street, fifty years old, chauffeur, shot
in left thigh.
Lena Waxman, twenty-five years old
16 Schiff Parkway, shot in right leg.
Anna Waxman, forty-eight years old
16 Schiff Parkway, shot in left foot.
Bertha Waxman, eighteen, 16 Schjff
Parkway. grazed by bullet and only
slightly injured.
Sixteen Shots Fired From Door
Sixteen shots were fired from q door
way in Chrystie Street as two Italians,
of whom the dead man was one, ap-
preached from the direction Of the
Bowery. The man who was with AL
falo began shooting in return. Alfalo
is declared by witnesses TO have fired
five shots before he fell with bullet
wound in the head, from which he died
almost instantly. The second Italian
ran, firing as he went, losing himself
in the crowd that gathered from all
surrounding streets.
Captain George Busby, Of the Clinton
Street police station, with all available
reserves, arrived within q few minutes
Of the shooting. Two ambulances from,
Gouverneur Hospital drew up simultan-
eously. The wounded men and women
were removed to the hospital.
That the shooting was due to re-
venge for information alleged to have
been given the police in connection
with the Varotta kidnapping is said to
have been learned by police investi-
gators in the Italian district. Wit
nesses declared that one of the men,
oh Il orb n c1,o J
in Italian that they were OUT 20 get all
informers. Following up this clew to
the cause of the battle, ten detectives
worked throughout the night question
ing residents in the vicinity.
Throngs in Street
That more persons were not wounded
is little short of miraculous, as the
street in which it occurred is a direct
approach to the williamsburg Bridge,
toward which crowds returning to
Brooklyn were moving. Within five
minutes of the shooting hundreds of
motor cars filled with men and women
clogged the vicinity and reserves had
hard work for more than an hour in
restoring order.
Patrolman John Kringle, of Clin-
ton Street Station, chased and caught
one of the men pointed out as having
been engaged in the affray. He gave
his name at the station as Salvatore
Viscone, thirty years old, of $40 East
10Sth Street. a truckman.
A .38-caliber revolver was found ON
the prisoner, who resisted arrest: There
were five loaded cartridges in the
weapon. Viscone said he hsd been
fired at, but had fired no shots in re-
turn. He declared he did not know
the men engaged in the revolver fight
and had only drawn his own weapon
to defend himself.
Fifty-five Questioned
Questioned as to his movements last
night, Viscone refused to talk fur
ther. He told Captain Busby of the
1st District Detective Bureau, who in
terrogated him for more than an hour,
that he would make no further state
ment until provided with counsel.
Fifty-fve persons were taken to the
station within an hour of the fight
from tenements in the neighborhood
of Prince Street. These were ques-
toned in relays.
Feldman and Niepotte were both inno-
cent victims of the firing. Neither was
in any manner involved, according to
a police statement. The three women
wounded are said to be likely to re-
cover. Lena Waxman, most seriously
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