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JE, OHIO, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1934THREE WOUNDED IN GUN AFFRAY(Continued From Page °nL‘the brother’s home. Mis* Pacchino was sitting on the doorstep of thehnesses will continue for some time.At the hospital at 3 r30 P tail was said that Trlpodi might be allowed to go to his home before nightfall. Karkoskl was reported as being satisfactory, but DIBenedetto's condition was reported as atlll being critical.Frank Fauma, 207 North Seventh street, arrested last night as one of the key witnesses in the case, was released after the prosecutor announcd tne charge filed against Saggio,Disclaims Enniilty Trlpodi disclaimed any knowledge of the cause of the trouble when he was questioned by Harry B. Chslfant, assistant prosecutor. He said ,he knew Saggio only slightly, but that they were frienc,-ly, and had been drinking beer together a few minutes before the shooting in an establishment on North Seventh street operated by Tripodi’s father-in-law, Vincenzo Buffone, 336 South High street.Sam left,” Tripodi told Chslfant, “and a few minutes earlier I heard shots fired. I went outside but didn’t see Sam. Then I caught a bullet In the leg, I don't know who fired it and didn’t see anybody with a gun. I don’t know anything about the trouble.”Tripodi’s story, police said, was refuted by witnesses to the shooting, who claimed that, after someone knocked Saggio down, Tripodi picked up a revolver from the sidewalk and placed it against Sag-gio’s head after someone said, ‘why don’t you finish him, Police have determined however, that there were no bullets left in the gun.Five sutures were necessary to close a wound in Saggio’s lip. One stitch was taken to close a cut on his face. Police were toid that someone knocked Saggio down and kicked him after knocking a revolver from his grasp.Arrested At Home Tripodi was arrested at his home several minutes after the shooting. He was taken to county jail after he had been booked at police headquarters. - When police arrived at Tripodi’s home, a doctor was dressin ga wound in his leg, they said.Attorney Raiph B. Cohen appeared at' the police station shortly thereafter and asked Chief Ross H. Cunningham if bond could be arranged for Tripodi. Chief Cunningham demurred but consented to allow Tripodi to be taken to the Ohio Valley hospital under guard Patrolman Sam Yurjevic stayed with Tripodi through the night Sunday and was relieved early today by Patrolman Jack Stafford.Search for Witnesses A search for new witnesses, questioning of witnesses found during the night and efforts to reconstruct the shooting kept investigators busy when the probe of the gun play resumed at 9 a. m. today,After an hour and a half’s session in Police Chief Ross H. Cunningham’s office at city hail, Assistant Prosecutor Chaifant, Doyle and Coroner Wells called a brief halt in the proceedings, issued a statement and then went to Prosecutor Arthur Hooper’s office where they resumed their work and took sworn statements.Exact details of what transpired immediately before and after the shooting were still somewhat of a mystery and no motive for the af fair had been determined yet this morning, the authorities said. However, they said they gained this information That at the time previous to theTshooting when Saggio and Tripodi ware drinking beer in the Buffone establishment, Vincent (Jimmie) Casaili and two strangers from Chester, W. Va., were with them.When Sa'ggio left the establish ment he walked down the street to the home of his brother, Joseph Saggio, at 216 North Seventh street, and met his niece, Miss Isabel Pacchino, 20, who lives atsR13house as her uncle approached. He asked for his brother and when told that he was not home, turned and retraced his steps toward Buffone’s establishment, Miss Pacchino said.Saw Saggio Pull Gun *When he was near the beer parlor, the girl is quoted by authorities as saying, Saggio pulled out the pistol at his head, but that random. Miss Pacchino then dashed after him and grabbed his gun hand and at about the same time Fauma arrived on the scene.Fauma and Saggio are friends and came to this country from Italy on the same boat in 1921. Neither of them are American citizens, investigators found.Fauma told authorities that he grabbed for Saggio as the shooting ceased and struck him ;n the mouth, knocking him down. As the crowd gathered others jumped on the fallen man and started to beat him.Tripodi, the investigators were told, is supposed to have appeared in the door of the beer parlor as these events were transpiring and was struck in the leg by one of the shots.Miss Pacchino related that when her uncle, the father of 13 children, was knocked to the ground, the pistol slipped from his grasp and that someone in the crowd handed it to Tripodi and advised him to “finish the job.”The girl added that, Tripodi knelt beside Saggio and pointed the pistol at hie head, but that about that time someone struck Tripodi, knocking him over and preventing him from pulling the trigger.Investigators are also checking a report that either before or after Tripodi got possession of the revolver, a small boy had picked up the weapon and started away from the scene. The boy supposedly dropped the gun, from which six shots had been fired, in the street when an unidentified man yelled at him.Saggio Beaten At the hospital, it was said that Saggio was intoxicated and after he received first aid treatment he was removed to the city jaii. Police also said that Saggio, supposedly a workman in the Wheeling Steel corporation’s Yorkville plant, appeared to be drunk.The left side of hi* face and head were badly swollen, his lip® were severely cut and bruised and he had difficulty speaking when questioned this morning. He was wearing a pair of light trousers and these fit the description of the gunman as given by Karboski.When questioned at the hospital shortly after the shooting, Kar: bosk! told Captain Frank Taylor that he was walking along Seventh street when the shots started and that he got behind a telephone pole with only his leg exposed. He said he knew nothing of the affair other than he saw a dark man wearing light, trousers firing a gun wildly.In attempting to learn what transpired in the Buffone place before Saggio walked outside, police were told that the two strangers from Chester had made a trip to Yorkville late in the afternoon to see a man named ‘’Sacco. They returned here alone and had stopped at Buffone’s before continuing home,The establishment where the men gathered before, the shooting occurred holds a wine, and beer selling permit issued in Vincenzo Buffone’s name. Police added the Information that Buffone is Tripodi’s father-in-law and that the bartender of the place Is Fred Mancini, alias Fred Lefty! They intimated that Casaili and the Cheater men would be called in for questinolng.
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Steubenville Herald Star
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Mon, Sep 24, 1934
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