Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-01
POLICE SHOOT FIVE
IN CANISTER DRIVE
Sixteen New York Detective
Squads Campaign Follows
Youths Staying.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. August SIXTEEN
police cars. each carrying four detec-
tives armed with automatic shotguns,
cruised the city today, to meet with
| force" the gangsters responsible for
! the death Of one and the woundine of
two others in two more outbreaks yes
terday.
The automobile squads swept out of
q dozen police stations at 8 pm, and
by midnight had already sent flve men
to hospitals, all suffering from bullet
wounds. The FIVE men were shot while
attempting hold-ups last night. Two
by patrolman. three others by one Of
the shotgun squads.
Brooklyn Shooting Fatal.
The fatal shooting was in Brooklyn.
The other was in East 103d street, but
short distance from the Harlem
neighhprhood where one child was
killed and four others shot on Tuesday.
The Brooklyn killing of Guido
Fererri, q mild-mannered youth who
had no underworld connections, was
blamed on racketeers by police. He
was evidently mistaken for a man well
known in the clothing labor circles,
which has been terrorized by gangSters
In the second shooting on East 1896
street, a large black touring car over
took a small roadster and eight men
sent a salvo of revolver shots at the
two men in the roadster.
They gave their names at hospital
as Joseph Gozola and Frank Christifore.
both under 80. Neither would name
his assailants. although both may die
of their wounds.
Wounds Shop Robber.
The first policemen to put Commits
Sioner Mulrooney's order into execution
was Patrolman James Mcfarland. He
; reported seeing three youths holding
up a cordial shop. He fired Anthony
Rizzi, 10 years old. was taken to a hos
,, pital. seriously wounded. A companion
was slightly wounded and placed under
! arrest. The third escaped.
In Harlem, four detectives in a shot
gun squad car reported seeing three
Negroes holding up drug store. The
, pump gun harked once. Twelve bullets
sent the three to q hospital. One
may die.
An additional reward of $4,000 was
made yesterday, bringing the total to
$40 900 in the hunt for the gunner
who shot Michael Venzaln, years old
The rate at which New York's pistol
/ and shotgun killings have mounted in
| IS years was revealed by the medical
examiners figures submitted yesterday
to Police Commissioner Edward P. Null
| rooney.
The 108 shooting homicides Of 1917
! stood almost tripled at 316 in 1890, and
200 such homicides. far above last year.
average. already are police history for
the first seven months of 1881.
Should the present rate of such STAY
| {raNr "A Ard Nf the mill
show 342 cases in the metropolis, Al
most one fatal shooting victim for each
| "a hours.
George p. Lebrun, secretary OF the
medical examiners Office, released the
| figures at the behest Of the county ad-
ditional grand jury. In 1911 Lebrun
then q clerk Of the Board of Coroners
drafted the so-called Sullivan firearms
law, which forbids sale and purchase
Of firearms without a permit. Lebrur
deplored the fact that only five States
have similar statutes.
Tighten Police Burdens.
such laws" Lebrun said, lighter
police burdens. The pistol with which
| Arnold Rothstein, the gambler, wa:
killed was purchased In Minneapolis
The shopkeeper who sold 1t, however
was unable to remember the buyer.
law like the Sullivan statute would have
given the shopkeeper record OF the
purchaser through the permit"
Except for the year 1923, when the
gun killings of all types dropped to 49,
| from the preceding years figure OF 237
the statistics showed steady increase
in gun homicides. The peak of 265
reached in 1924, receded slowly to %:
in 1919, but leaped to 316 in 1880.
The figures published did not include
accidental shootings, but covered case.
Of persons shot by police In the per
Torrance Of duty. In 1880 there were
81 such Shootings and for the first sever
months of this year, 81.