The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-29

Devine: 5. slightly hurt: Salvatore
 vengaiii, q.
 Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney ordered 50 detectives to "bring Vincent Coll. dead or alive" to headquarters. Coll is the head of a liquor ring which, according to the un- derworld, has been attempting to muscle" in on Harlem's beer racket. By inference, 1t may have been Coils mob that swept suddenly into East 107th street last night, pouring a deadly shower of bullets into a group of children at play, in their reckless endeavor to "get" one of their enemies. Florence D'Amellio was the heroine throughout the display of barbarism which has showed Lit tie Italy into a vast silence-of fear-to- day. With the first out burst of firing. she leaned over tie brother was sleeping, and at- tempted to lift him out, to carry him to safety. Before she could struggle to a doorway, one bull let had struck her on the shoul- 0CI htiu kWO A1u ChtbCaoCu themselves in the body of the other child.
 Despite the wounds. Florence chung to her brother and rushed with him into a nearby store, be- seeching aid for him.
 The shocking savagery of the attack is believed to be the out come of a war between the Coli gang and the gangs headed by Joe
 Rao and Dutch" Schultz. Coils mob recently carried the war into Green county, but their intentions were frustrated whe height mme- bers of the gang were surrounded and captured in a farmhouse out side of Catskill--in the territory recently made famous by Jack (Legs) Diamond.
 Last nights attack Is believed to have been in reprisal for a tip off" given the police as to the purposes of Coils Green county raid.
 The shooting was the most ruth less in the history of New York gang warfare. Scores of children, trying to catch an occasional breeze and avoid the stifling heat of tenement rooms. were playing on the sidewalks of East 107th street when an open automobile some said 1t was green and some said it was black-poked it's way down the street.
 A man standing in front of the Helmar club. "social" club with some gangster associations, dropped to the sidewalk in alarm, for machine guns were poking their muzzles over the sides of the car.
 There was roar of gunftre !; children shrieked; the murder car swept down the street and disap- peared. The man who had dropped in his tracks rose and rushed away. Hysterical moth- CTS ran to pick up the moaning victims. Screams and curses filled the street.
 But nobody in Little Italy" to- day could describe the automobile or its occupants. Nobody claimed to know who did it. The fifty detectives who labored through the hot night questioning the frightened residents of the street learned nothing.
 "Oh," said a five-year old youn "Oh," said a. Nve-year- youngster, calmly pursuing his games after the shooting was over, "it was just one of those gangs" Two others are critically wound ed. They are: Salvatore Vengali, z, brother of the child who was killed; and Michael Belivacqui, years old, shot twice in the back while his sister was wheeling him in a baby carriage along the line of fire.
 Two more were less seriously
 wounded, and were able to go
 home after hospital treatment.
 They are Florence D'Amellio, 12
 shot in the shoulder; and Samuel
 Delfino, 6, wounded in the leg.