Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-09
|GUNMEN SHOOT
! WAY PAST MOB;
8 ARE WOUNDED
Bullets and Speeding
Motor Clear Streets
in New York Disorder.
Thugs Grow Desperate
Following Attempt to
Avenge Murdered Pal.

New York, Aug. S.-The east side
still quivering with excitement from
gun play in Chinatown Monday, was
stirred again Tuesday, when an auT>
mobile carrying four men burst into s
crowd of clothing strikers gathered il
front of Beethoven hall on East Fifth
street. opened fire and dashed away
leaving eight men wounded in the
street
First reports indicated that the fray
might be part of labor war. but upon
investigation. the police decided the
shooting occurred in connection with a
bootlegger's feud and that the wounded
most of them tailors-had been
dropped when they attempted to stop
the car fleeing from an attempted mur-
der on Second avenue, just around the
corner.
Police Give Chase
Communicating automobiles. the DO
lice gave mad pursuit up the east side.
but lost the gunmen's car in the traffic
at Bath street and Third avenue. An
other car with five men was picked up,
however. at Third avenue and Eighth
street and the quintet taken with an
other witness to headquarters for
questioning. Reports received from
Bellevue hospital indicated that three
of the wounded might die.
The story started at Second avenue
and Fortieth street, where Joseph
Nasseri was standing in front of his
home. Nasseri. according TO the police,
was out on bail in connection with the
shooting of .Silvio Taglinanna at Grand
and Mulberry streets about two months
ago.
Suddenly big blue ear. carrying four
men appeared and stopped According
to the police theory. this quartet was
bent on avenging the death of Taglin-
anna
Three of the new arrivals got out
and began walking toward Nasseri. The
car, meanwhile. proceeded slowly to
Second avenue and Fifth As the trio
Nnsseri. they whipped out
and opened fire. 1t was not
the gunmen's bad shooting, but Mas
seris skillful dodging that saved his
life.
One shot Nasseri side stepped. A
hole was ripped in the shoulder of his
,oat. Five more shots. Nasseri had
lropped to his knees Five more holes
appeared this time in the crown of his
lat
Then a volley-but by this time Mas
eri had run upstairs. Detectives
ound him later seated on his bed. his
at and coat beside him. He followed |
hem quietly for further questioning. /
Marked Man Escapes.
But the volley which had left Nasseri |
nharmed had taken its toll among the |
nnocent bystanders. who appear in al |
lost every story of shooting. Two
len. identified later as strikers. /
ropped, seriously injured More bull
ITS, crashing through the window of
shop. lodged in two dummies.
Bent on escape, the three gunmen
m to rejoin their comrade in the ear.
With grinding gears, the ear turned
ito Fifth street
Ahead of it were massed 400 strik-
RS. Some, having heard the shooting.
tempted to halt the car The gun
en- deliberately reloaded. Another :
olley of shots.
A gray pony hitched to little cart
elonging to lemonade peddler fell
} its side with a bullet in it's head. To
ght and left men dropped-six in ad-
tion to the two felled around the
,rner
The crowd dropped back for a mo-
ent 1t was enough for the car TO
iSh through and away