Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
GANCSTERS' GUN
SPRAYS BULLETS
AMONG CHILDREN

NEW YORK, July 30. U.H One
child lay dead today and four were
"shot full of bullets" victims of a
cynical disregard of life by ma
chine gunner gangsterS as Police
Commissioner Edward P. Null
rooney ordered so detectives to
bring Vincent Coll dead or alive, =
to headquarters.
Coll is the head of a liquor ring
which, according to the underworld
has been attempting to muscle in
on Harlem's beer racket. BY infer
ence, it may have been Coils mob
that swept suddenly into East l07th
street last night. pouring deadly
shower of bullets into group of
children at play in their reckless
endeavor to get" one of their enc
mics.
When the gunner left the scene,
five children were screaming in a
paroxysm of hysteria. and their in
tended victim. whoever he was, was
unScathed
Michael Vengali 5. who was shot
in the groin, as he was playing on
a doorstep, died today.
Two others were critically wound
ed. They were Salvatore Vengali,
7. brother of the slain child, and
Michael Belivacquk 3 years old,
shot twice in the back while his
sister was wheeling him in baby
carriage along the line of fire.
Two more were less seriously
wounded. and were able to go home
after hospital treatment. They
were Florence d'Amellio. IL. shot in
the shoulder, and Samuel Delfino,
6, wounded in the leg.
Florence d dAmellio was the hero
inc throughout the display of bar
barism which shocked Little Italy
into a vast silence-of fear-today.
With the first outburst of firing.
she leaned over the little carriage
in which her little brother was
sleeping, and attempted to lift him
out, to carry him to safety. Before
she could struggle to a doorway one
bullet had struck her on the shoul-
der and two more had embedded
themselves in the body of the other
child. Despite the wounds, Florence
,lung to her brother and rushed
With him into a nearby store.
Outcome of War
The shocking savagery of the at
ack is believed to be the outcome |
If a war between the Coll gang and
he gangs headed by Joe Rao and |
Dutch" Schultz. Coils mob re-
emily carried the war into Green |
but their intentions were |
frustrated when eight members of |
he gang were surrounded and cap
ured in a farmhouse outside of |
the territory recently |
made famous by Jack Uegs) Dia-
nond.
Last nights attack is believed to |
lave been in reprisal for a "tip |
,ff" given the police as to the pur-
1oses of Coils Green county raid. |
The shooting was the most ruth
ess in the history of New York ]
gang warfare. Scores Of children,
.rying to catch an occasional breeze
and avoid the sitting heat of tene-
nent rooms, were playing on the
sidewalks when an open automobile |
some said it was green and some |
aid it was black-poked its way |
iown the street.
A man standing in front of the |
Ielmar club, a social club, with |
ONE gangster associations, dropped
o the sidewalk in alarm. for ma
hine guns we're poking their muz-
les over the sides of the car.
There was roar of gunfire;
hildren shrieked; the murder car
wept down the street and disap-
,eared. The man who had dropped
n his tracks rose and rushed away.
Iysterical mothers ran to pick up
he moaning victims Screams and
.i1rcns filled the cfrepf