Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-12
ANOTHER DEATH IN. NEW YORK BooTLEGGEHs' FEUD

New York. Aug. 11.-Joseph Masseria, who lodged several bullets fired at him last Tuesday, when four gunmen in an automobile Serrorized Second avenue, was arrested on charge of murder to- day following a second shooting in the same vicinity, in which u1nberto Valenti was slain and two persons wounded, in- cluding Agnes Egglinger, aged II, of New Haven. Conn.
 Both frays, according to the police, were skirmishes in bootleggers' feud which started several months ago with shooting on Mulberry street. Masseria. arrested in connection with the initial bit of gunplay, had been re- | leased on $16,06O bail.
 Todays shooting occurred within a quarter of mile of last Tuesdays The police are working on the theory that Valenti was one of the gunmen who 1 opened fire on Masseria earlier in the i week.
 Reports received by the police indicat- 1 ed that from two to five men fired at Valenti today. The wounded, who in- 1 cluded a street cleaner, Joseph Schepis. besides the girl. were struck by stray bullets fired into the crowd. Both to- night were reported in a critical condi- l tion.
 Valenti. known to the police as one of 1 a clique of East Side gamblers and boot
 leggers, and regarded as bad man who had figured in other shooting affairs was standing at Second avenue and 12th
 street when the band of gunmen ap-
 preached. Walking up to him, they
 whipped out revolvers and fired Detective Kirk of the homicide squad
 was riding past the corner in a, trolley car when he heard the shots He saiG he saw ValentL with a pistol in his hand
 stagger toward a taxicab and then sud ) denly drop into the gutter.
 | Meanwhile two of the gunmen hat
 dashed into 18th street. The street va.
 already well filled with pedestrians ant , | hundreds more came scurrying out O
 doorways at the sound of the firing
 Some of the bystanders attempted t' l cut of the gunmen's escape. With tn same callousness that had marked Tues 1 days shooting of innocent bystanders
 the fugitives fired bIindly into the crowd
 dashed through the hole that opened be 1 fore them and escs ped.
 On the street lay the white wing sho
 through the neck, and the little Egglin
 ger girl. who had come with her fathe from their home in New Haven, Conn: | visit friends7in this city.
 Two detectives hastened to St Mark
 hospital, where Valenti had ben carried 1 unconscious, to obtain an ante-morter 1 1 statement. He died. however, withou e regaining consciousness
 d Masseria, who refused last Tuesday = name. his assailants was questioned fc 2 two hours at the district attorneys -offic II regarding today's shooting and the l, locked up. e Masseria denied all knowledge of ti e shooting. claiming that he had not le
 his house since last Tuesdays affair Tn e the police said they did not believe ; f he had obtained a new hat to repla, ' that riddled with bullets in the attem q made on his own life:
 According to the police. both Valen e and Masseria had amassed fortune l. First, said detectives, Valenti had ma, a- his pile gambling. Then. with the comil Q of prohibition, lie had gone in success to fully for bootlegging.
 The police said that yalenti had bel n arrested in 1915 in connection with u C. shooting of 9 gunman known as Sul Id Brown, but had been acquitted of IT charge of murder.
 } Harry Egglinger, whose daughter " <- shot in today's affair, had brought f l. little, girl to visit friends on Eth stre,
 Looking out of the, window after heariI A. the shots, he saw his daughter ;yil ed wounded on the sidewalk. Rushing Of the street. he took her in his arm 10 ! stopped a delivery truck, and rushed h ch- to Bellevue hospital.