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RUHS AMUCK ON NORTH SEVENTHStray Bullets Hit By;* standers, One Victim May DieMOTIVE IS MYSTERY)Gunman Attacked and Beaten by Mob Drawn By the Shootingr(BULLETIN)Early this afternoon Prosecu-lor Arth .r L. Hooper announced that police guards over Jimmie Trlpodl, held aa a patient it the Ohio Valley hospital while investigation of a wild shooting af«lt; fair at Seventh and Kilgore streets last night went On, were being withdrawn with no charged' against Trlpodl.The prosecutor's announcement followed examination of nearly a dozen witnesses. He said testimony indicated Trlpodl had taken no part in the shooting and that James Baggio, Yorkvilie Italian, had apparently run amuck with a revolver.Throo men wero wounded, onI seriously, in an unexplained shooting at Seventh and Kilgor© street* at 0;45 p. m, Sunday. At least twlt;» of the bullet victims, and possibly the third, wore innocent bystanders and a Yorkvilie resident accused of stagting the shooting was se« verely beaten by u mob that quickly gathered at the scene.investigation of the mysterious affair was continuing today, bub city and county authorities have been unable yet to establish a roo-n- tive for the shooting or to obtain a full-sided picture of ovents that led up to and followed the disturbance which attracted hundreds o| curious spectators, Too ;First information on ' the cane was that the sftpbUng1 followed mshots were fired and that a 80-year-bid girl had disarmed the gunner.As ths investigation moved forward, Vincenzo (Jimmie) Trlpodl, 201 Broadway, Manhattan subdivision, was held tinder pollco guard in the Ohio Valley hospital, suffering from a bullot wound in the left) log above the knee, ;Sam Snggio, 81, Yorkvilie, believed by police to be the man whv fired the. first gfiots, is held in pity jail for investigation. He was treated at the hospital for lacerations boforo no was locked!up. ,:fA third man, Frank Fauma, 207 North Seventh street. Is in city jail for investigation. The gun which police say was the only one that! figured in the shooting, was found on tbo sidewalk near Sev-iCildenth and Kilgore streets by Patrol’-man Boborf, Doyio and is being held at headquarters. It is a ,82-culiber Smith and Wesson revolver.Teeth Shot Out |Philip DiBenedotto, 28, 28North Seventh street, was struck in the right side of the face by a stray bullet It passed through a part of his jaw bono, ripped but a part of his Ipwer gum and several of his teeth Ana punctured hi* tongue. Hqspitel reports sey his condition is critical. W*The third victim was John Kar* boski, 85 North Eighth Street, former city patrolman. Another(Continued On Page 14)
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Steubenville Herald Star
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Mon, Sep 24, 1934
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