New-York tribune., 1922-09-13
WornenQu
And Son OF One
Is Mortally Shot
Verbal Fracas in Apart
nlent House Involves the
!Neighbors and Police
and Free Fight Is Staged

An argument between Mrs. Joseph
Hession and Mrs. Thomas Wood. who
had an adjoining apartment at 5O7 West
Forty-seventh Street, started at 8
o'clock yesterday evening and kept up
IN one form or another unit! two
patrolmen and q half dozen relatives
and neighbors had been drawn into the
difficulty and Mrs. Woods's son, Mat
thew McInery, who is better known as
the pugilist, "Matty Woods" had been
shot twice above the heart by a police
man and removed to Bellevue Hospital
dying.
The discussion started in Mrs.
Woods room, but when Mrs Hession
fed to her own apartment the other
woman followed her to her door and
continued her argument in the hallway
Joseph Hession came home in the eve.
ming and went to his wife's defense
Ionly to find Mrs. Woods three sons
stanchly arrayed against him. About
that time the argument became aNfree
for all and tenants on the floor above
telephoned to the West Forty-seventh
Street police station.
Patrolmen Connolly and Rabau were
sent to the apartment, but instead of
quieting the storm their arrival merely
added two more to the number of COM
batants. Rabau finahy forced his way
into the Hessions' rooms, but the sec
ond he was out of the hall Connolly
was downed on the stairs. A second
later two shots rang out. The dis
turbance ended, and Rabau ran out to
find his comrade holding a still smok-
ing revolver, while the Hessions and
cTra Mo- = Ill,
body
Connolly declared he did not shoot
until he had been beaten and kicked as
he lay on the floor and had seen Nc
Inerny rushing at him with a revolver
in each hand. He declared that he
fred in self-defense and showed bro
ken night stick, smashed, he said, by a
baseball bat, to support his story.
A riot call was turned in and dozen
men and women were taken to the
police station.
After all the prisoners had been
questioned Mrs. Wood, her husband
Inerny, were held on a charge of felo-
nious assault, while the others were
released. Patroman Connolly was
taken to Bellevue to have his cuts and
bruises and a knife wound in Inc right
foot treated.
At about the same time the police
were summoned to the West Forty
seventh Street address four young men
fell out on the corner of Varet Street
and Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn. Pass
ing from an argument to fist fight,
the row ended up in revolver battle
in which Goodman Diamond, of 205
Siegei Street, Brooklyn, a Western
Union messenger boy who was passing
during the scuffie, was shot dead and
two of the combatants were mortaiiy
wounded.
Louis Diamond, brother of the dead
boy, narrowly missed being hit by an
other of the bullets, but the second he
recovered from the shock of seeing
Goodman killed he sprang forward with
a cry and led the crowd which chased
the fugitive down Varet Street toward
Manhatts>- Avenue. Salvatore Piazza,
of 177 Boerum Street, was tripped by
passerby as he ran and collared by
Detectives Ferris and Hamendinger, of
the Stagg Street station, before he
could regain his feet. A little further
down the street Giuseppe Gelso, who
lives at the same address, was caught