New-York tribune., 1922-09-11
Italian Stabbed
And Killed as
2 II antilles w an
Women and Children Rush
Detectives with Accused
Slayer, Biting, CIawing,
Using Bricks and Clubs
Cherry Street in Uproar
Mother of Slain Feudiss
Kisses His Mute Lips and
Faints in a Drug Store

A two-family quarrel at 122 Cherry
Street at o'clock last night resulted
III the stabbing to death of Nicholas
Parish, city street cleaner, living on
the top floor Of the building; injury to
woman and an attempt on the part Of
the dead mans relatives to take away
from detectives the alleged slayer. The
women and children of the two fami-
lies carried on the fight with bricks,
sticks. fists and teeth long after the
arrival of police reserves, who had
difiiculty in restoring order.
The stabbing was the climax of a
quarrel of several weeks duration Pa
risi, Francisco Favara, who lives at
the same address, and q third man
came to blows, the police say, on the
third floor landing after q heated alter
cation. Parish is alleged to have at
tackled Favara with an iron chain and
the latter, 1t is charged, drew a knife
and stabbed his opponent four times in
the abdomen. The third man, whose
name Is said to be known to the police,
carried Parish to drug store at the
corner of Catherine and Cherry streets,
where it was found that he was dead.
Parisi had wife and four children
and Favara has wife and five chill
dren. 1t is alleged that the members
of both families, including brothers
and sisters of the two principals, took
up the fight Immediately after the
stabhing. Rita Simanette, Of "a Mar
ket Street, sister of Favara, was cut in
L.
scratching and clubbing. The women
screamed and the attention of the
whole neighborhood was attracted to
the scene.
All of the combatants followed
Parsi's body to the drug store. Mrs.
Josephine Parisi, sixty-fve years old,
of 1873 Third Street, the dead mans
mother, kissed her sons mute lips and
then swooned. BY this time Detectives
Salvatore Innella and Louis Fioria, who
live in the neighborhood, came up,
learned the cause of the excitement
and went to 122 Cherry Street, where
they arrested Favara. The latter was
changing his blood stained clothes to
make his escape, the detectives said
Women Attack Police
They had no sooner appeared on the
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tempt was made by Parisi's relatives to
get at Favara. Mrs. Anna Parisi, the
wife, and Josephine Camarraia, of 20
Monroe Street, his sister, are alleged
to have led the attack. Both detectives
were hit n their efforts to protect the
haudcuffed Italian. Acting Deputy
Chief Cornelius Cahalane, who had ar
rived, telephoned for police reserves.
Before the reserves came Paris's
four children and Favara's five were
pummeling one another beth inside and
out of the Cherry Street tenement.
Youngsters in the same block emulated
their example and took sides. The
street was miniature battlefield
Cahalane and the two detectives had
their hands full in keeping ParisPs
women relatives from scratching and
clubbing Favara.
The arrival of reserves from the Oak
Street station finally restored the sem
blance of order on Cherry Street. Fa-
vara was locked up on q homicide
charge, and the Camarraia woman was
held as a material witness.