New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1928, Page 3

STATES WITNESS SHOT IN GHICAGO Kidoap Trail of Billy Ranieri Drenched With Blood Chicago, Dec. 18 (M—The kidnap trial of little Billy Ranieri, dusty from weeks of courtroom tedium, to- day was wet with human blood—Ole Fcully's blood. ‘Two bullets through the head and another in the body as he ran the =auntlet of guns in a West Taylor street restaurant late yestc ~, and Scully was dead. The prosecution in the Ranleri kidnapping case had lost ore of its most important witnesses. The state had been six weeks in vicking a jury to try three men for the abduction of the 10-year-old boy. It had chosen carefully, for it want- cd 12 men who would not hesitate to impose the death sentence it is asking for the mer. on trial—Angelo Petitti, Andrew Cappelano and Tony (appellano. It got death — Ole Scully's. Shot Dead ‘Assistant State's Attorney Samuel Hoffman had just completed his opening statement to the jury when ihis message was received in Judge Robert 1. Gentzel's courtroom: “Ole Scully was shot dead, and | the heads or arms of five of his com- panions were broken with baseball bats by five men who followed them into a restaurant on West Taylor street.” The message created a sensation. “None of our lives are safe,” ex- claimed the prolecutor. “‘ours or the witnesses.” “This is a challenge to all law en- " sald State's Attorney nd it will be answered Those who were beaten severely while Scully was being killed were: Narceno Di Dimonico, restaurant owner; Joe Malone, sewer contractor, (as was Scully); Jack Devito; Joe Sabello; and Frank Pantalone. - De- vito is a brother of Mike Devito, an other state witness in the Ranieri trial. The men had come to the restau- rant from a funeral, riding in Scul- ly’s car, which they parked outside. Suddenly the door flew open and four men entered. Three carried pistols, the fourth was armed with a baseball bat. “Who owns that car in front?” they demanded to know. Scully and his companions denied knowledge of the car, whereupon the man with the bat, cursing, be- gan beating them. Scully, de{)lns the guns, ran for the front door. ‘Criggers were pressed as he reached it, and he fell dead. Hi¢ Body _ The man with the baseball bat stood over Scully's body and struck it several times. Even with a dead man on the floor and the sound of their re- volvers echoing down the street, the | men did not run. They set upon the others, using the bat and the butts of their pistols as clubs. Soully as saying, “and | t all to keep Petitti in | |Jall the rest of his life. My lite won't be worth a nickel if Petitti gets out.” The extent of alarm felt in om- cial circles over the Scully slaying | was evidenced today by the elabo- rate precautions taken to safeguard the lives of all persons involved in {the trial. Assistant State's Attorney Hoffman announced that he would take immediate steps to send his| {children out of the city, and lhal1 he and Mrs, Hoffman will move to a hotel until the trial is over. Home Guarded Double guards were placed at the Ranieri home, protecting every ap- proach. Almost at- the time Scully | was being shot down, a special de- livery letter was recelved. by Ra- nieri threatenfng his life fl he per- sisted in the prosecution. Police guards were given Judge |Gentzel, all state witnesses and members of the prosecuting staff. The precautions against harm were described as the -most elaborate |ever taken by Chieago police. The Ranieri case i8 down in the police records as the climax to |years of - Maflan extortion which has kept many Chicagoans of Si- lcman birth in constant fear of their | | lives, Ten year old Billy was snatched into an automobile on his way home from school last September, taken to the country and kept prisoner 10 days. He was released |shortly "after Petitt! had been ar- | rested. | | | | | Money Comes in For British Miners London, Dec. 18 (M—S8ubscriptions large and small continued to arrive today for the Lord Mayor's fund for unemployed miners. Premier | Baldwin sent a donation of £15,000 (8$75,000), from F. K. Kielberg, chalrman of the Anglo-Danish society, Bishop Charles H. Brent of west- ern New York sent £20 u a Christ- mas offering and said “many of my fellow countrymen would gladly | contribute to the fund were there some agency through which to make known to them the heartrending ' conditions of the families of these | workmen who, through no fault of | their own, are suffering such dne need.” Have Drawn Plan for | Reducing Chinese Army ' Shanghai, Dec. 18 (P —Japanase |reports state that General Chiang |Kai-Shek, head of the natlonalist government, Marshal Feng Yu- Hsiang and General Yen Hsi-Shan |Kave drawn up a plan for reducing [the present §0 divisions of the Chi- nese army to 60. Subsequently these divisions will be reorganized into 80 {for which German military instruc- tors are being engaged. The plan was understood to have been drawn |up in connection with the forthcom- | ing army disbandment confcrence at | Nanking. Three model divisions will | |be organized at Nanking. i RETURNS TO CALIFORNIA | Mrs. Ruby (Dixon) Bertini, wife | {of John Bertini of San Bernardino, | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1922, URSES BATTLING DISEASE INCREASE . Yisits to Patients 43 Per Cent More Than Year Ago Twenty-two new cases of com- Mmunicable diseases were given care by the Visiting Nurse association during the past week. In November the association increased its visits to patients having communicable discases 42 per cent over the visits made in November, 1927. This shows in part the intensity with which the need for nursing care for these pa- tients has increased, and the lack of hospital facilities which makes the visiting nurse service the only type of nursing care available in the.city. Close cooperation between the health ofice and the visiting nurse in maintaining quarantine regula- tions, and in carrying out individual precautions, has helped to check the development of many new cases | of contagious diseases, it is believed. Diphtheria Preventive Administration of toxin-antitoxin as a preventive against diphtheria is strongly urged. Cases of diph- theria should Me as rare as small- Pox in communities where there is compulsory vaccination, the asso- ciation states. Toxin-antitoxin can be secured through the health de- ' partment and administered by the family doctor. In six months time a patient who has had such a treat- ment may return to his doctor, who by a test, can tell whether or not immunity to diphtheria has been secured, Symptoms of a cold accompanied by a cough and a watery. discharge from the eyes, may well lead any person who Is in contact with chil- dren to suspect the beginning of a case of measles. Scparation of the suspected patient from his neigh- | | upon the bors and playmates, until seen by a doctor, will do no harm and may prevent not less than 10 other cases, according to an association bulletin. Pneumonia, prolonged bronchitis, lntected ears and heart disturbances en complicate simple cases of memesA and are particular dangers to be avoided rather than invited by ! voluntarily exposing children to the disease in order “to have it over with,” the bulletin continues. 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