The evening world. Newspaper, September 15, 1915, Page 10

| (Continued trom First Maen) © held tm 626,000 tach la Con Breet Police Court yesterday Hrondint We accused of euborna: |verdury and Voreare of perjury Distriet Attorney has been told ¢ Hrondint, for pay, framed up « per ured defense for Gaetano Monit magne, whe shot and killed Mike | Gaimari. Mike Nofrano was the man who bad “taken care of the Italians” for Foley ure **A good line”’ George Washington, Sure eyor) Centuries «age Tnediens manufacturing contres, ae well from the day “the Divvers” ran trom Mesed the = (“Nema os the wonderful agricultural the consequences of their own follies trell serene the = Allegha- country in Ohio and Indiens. in making © joke of the Election oles. Laws, That was back in 1906, Mike, this day in 1912, had como to Kberitt Years let George Splendid aicted tele, Foley in @ mood which made him cali Washington, surveyor, 6 ern coaches, drewing bis chief “Mr, Sheriff’ and not lected this same trail for room compartment sleepers, “Tom.” Tom Foley, smiling even @ stage road from the Hast observation = parlor — cara, more painstakingly than usual, tried to the Ohio country at Fort lounging observation library to keep the trouble glaze out of his Daqueme, now Pittsburgh. and the best of dining eyes. service, afford every accom “What ts it, Mike?” he sald. They Py Orie : pe modation and convenience were sitting at @ table back of the ion pds ‘allows pr abe demanded by —_ fastidious bar of the saloon at Franklin and Contre Mreeta, which is still known as “Foley's, but even then had been in other hands than the Sheriff's for | years, “I want to go to Congress,” said Rofrano, His voice was uneasily eager, Hoe raised it with an effort to show bis determination, Foley's amile changed, It was less sympathetic and almost mocking. “You mean,” he sald to Rofrano, ou want me to turn down Dan | Riordan, Mike? Are you serious?’ | “I was never more serious in my yee sald Rofrano. “I got to have it. I deserve it. ‘ | Foley turned away from him. “That's the trouble with you, Mike,” he grunt. ed. “You are too damn serious—about | yourself, Go off somewhere and wake yourself up. Me turn down Dan for YOU? 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Yes, and business failures and evic- tigns and loss of work and suicides Coney Island brawls and charges of , |counterfelting United States coin met with charges of election frauds and kidnapping. Out of it ail chroniciers of under- world history mark two atran things. a plank crawlin| big or little, and sent them han, gon | to cover or to capture or death, they have been found to have been busied graft and wome: In this Rofrano-Foley feud, no mat- ter which side may be judged to bear the final burden of guilt, there is no hint of a fight of men over a woman or women—except as a pretext that & woman had been slurred gave an excuse for the staring of one mur- derous battle, There is no hint directly of grat, | > though, as an Assistant Distyct At- torney said yesterday, “none of the direct participants in any part of the feud has ever laid himself open to what could be termed offensive or aggressive honesty.” DISTRICT ATTORNEY KNOWS IT ALL, BUT WON'T TELL, The one person in this county who knows more about the three years’ skirmishing is District Attorney Charles A. Perkins. He won't talk sbout it, Twenty newspapers asked him for an opinion as soon ag the news of Rofrano’s indictment became Lae hi “Brothers,” he said with a in, “I am at present a candidate for Bit tet Attorney on the platform that I shall try my cases, if elected, in court and not in the newspapers. And even if that were not the case, it would be wrong for me to cheapen a case as important as this case seems to be by exploiting it at a time when I was a candidate. The history of this ca: now and hereafter, must be tak from the records, and I'll do my best to make the record clear and simple.” But as long ago as May 6, Assist District Attorney Delehanty, op ing an order to allow Tony and Joe La Balle to see the minutes of the Grand Jury, announced that much that was of vital Importance to oth ers than the La Salles was on those minutes and should not be made pub- ie, property. “I say on my responsibility as a public official and as an officer of this court,” said Mr. Delehanty, with solemn emphasis, “that I op- pose’ this motion because the condl- tions in this case more nearly con- cern the enforcement of the Law in thia city than even the conditions which culminated in the murder of Herman Rosenthal in July, 1912, by a Lieutenant of Police.” Which arly, perhaps, as one can get a statement of the Preseou- tor’s view of the present arraignment of New York as a place where sordid murder may go hand tn hand with the ambition of political prestige, as well as with greed, THE GAIMARI BROTHERS, HU- MAN BLOODHOUNDS. Of the elements of melodrama the history of the feud lacks nothing, What shall be written hereafter, when Rofrano escapes or is captured by those two fraternal hum: blood- hounds, John—otherwise known as “Buster” —and Ai Giamari, brothers of the man whose murder he is ac- cused of having bought? These two were once on trial for their lives for th murder of a man who, as they believed, had tried to kill Mike Gal- mari, their brother, Since a second attempt on his life was successful they have been haunting the trail of Mike Rofrano, Rocco Carnivale, Frank Fennimore and Joe and Tony De Salle—sniffing, back-tracking, bulldozing, whining, but always, inc by inch, seeking to fulft! their desire for legal vengeance—for, as shall be told hereafter, they were stopped by the grim Vigilance of the law from jexere'sing their own inborn instinct for the vengeance of the vendetta. 4! Rofrano yoic nesta of underworld vermin, | it | franchise that he kept a “voting res- Sommer, 1918 te on rents opposite Do Catharine Btreews Your hours leter, Vineenso of Cardillo. dune, 1914-—Geimara brothers Joseph Haldo that he testified fal iy dan. 1, 1915-—Jim Minott ela sentenced to twenty years in prised March, 1915-—Roceo Carniv commit perjury in testifying against sentenced to death. May 20, 1915 after pistol battle with police 4 murder in second dogree. certain, all y and all yes- need up | n the streets of New York and) Brooklyn looking fur Mike Rofrano. ‘Time and again they had orders from indictment all Moni Rofrano's Polles Headduaiters and from the|which he was captain by 375 out of » Minott, the man who, the valet and Mins Jeanne Elise Salles, District Attorney's vitice to go hone | 409 for McCall Ho got the same re-| anybody clse helped | a maid in the employ of Mra, Duke, were and get som ep. sult all over je district by t tered in the Churel “Time enough to sleep when we get! proportion. At last he had the nerve, married yesterday in the Church of St. that Rofrano,” was their only reply when their reports over the telephone were met with the “go home" order.) “When we tell you where you can catch bim—then, ah, then, we quit!” Their work, had gathered the cumulative store of evidence which was to make Frank Fennimore's Mon- day confession stand firm. They fiercely coveted the final sattafaction | of hunting down Rofrano and saying to the man with the warrant: “There's the man who Is to he tged for buying the murder of our broPher—whom he did not dare face himself.” ROFRANO JOINS THE PINK- TYPE PROPAGANDIST. To go back to the night when Mike his desire to go to Washington as the first New Yorker | der, consumptive, thin haired, dark| 4 RFECTLY SATISFACTORY Wer intante. and 7 of Italian blood to be a Congr an. | skinned fellow who leaped out of a ASSASSIN OF GAIMARI. In USE For OVER 30 YEARS Ho didn’t need the salary, It ls abus-!doorway did it. Mike, Gaimari’s| Mike Gaimafi “got his"—in the! 1 oo. ing no confidence that Dan Reardon | friend Murphy had to use both hands |Janguage of his own folk—March 8 br i did need it. No wisard of finance, | to pull the knife from the wound. But| last at 9.30 in the morning. Gaetano ie Rofrano, by Foley's good offices Su-| yy: Gaimari lived. Montimagno shot him at the corner | Signature o! perintendent of the Tenement Hou: Department, had acquired a real e: tate knowledge and judgment which had made him a wise investor and he | had prospered. After a term or two | as the Hon. Mr. Rofrano of New York he cauld Manhattan to never was de And Foley sneered at him for an old time east ide Irish friend. Trying to hide his ‘age as Well as Foley was hiding bis contempt, Rofrano marched out, Straight to the Driscolls went Ro- frano, Eugene and Clement Driscoll, who had learned politics at Foley's knee, had been led away by the lustre of certain pink-type Independence apostle to union Deputy Commissioner of Police to other elements in the political sit- uation, Gene really thought he could take the Second District from Foley easily as Foley had assumed char when Divver abdicated When Rofrano joined the Driscolls he promised them the whole following which Foley had up to that time had from the Itallan born, Did the Dri colls welcome Mike Rofrano? ‘They didn’t do anything else, The Dris: colls lived at No. 9 Oliver Street. A certain Great ‘Intellectual Force Among the Lowly (whose salary by his own description even greater than his Intellectual Force) thought so much of his imperial right to the idence” in the same house in which Mike Rofrano lived, at No. 9 No. 11 is a busy tenement. In the next house lived Tom Foley. The court records show nothing of the dis- orders across that neutral tenement, on the sidewalks, or on the roof. But the police records show many calis to the neighborhood with no returns. CONEY ISLAND BATTLE FIRST OF THE VENDETTA. But the first real fighting, as in all wars, came before the actual break between the furtively fat Foley and the furtively sharp-faced Rofrano, It was a battle at Coney Island between Robert and Mike Rofrano and their followers on the one hand and a band led by Jimmy Minott (whose father's name was Minozza), One of the Ro- franos was arrested. He said next day in court he was Robert. The complainant was absent, And even before that, away back in 1905, Mike Gaimari, a busy Itallan politician, had been in a fight over the decision of the judges at an east side dance with Frank Fennimore, a billiard room keeper, and Rocco Car- nivale, both Divverites then, Gaimari had been shot in the heel of his shoe, Fennimore and Carnivale moved to Brooklyn, and the legal aspects of tho case were dropped, though bad blood remained ‘The alignment was the Home Rule Club, crystallizing Driscoll-Rofrano sentiment, against Foley's Down Town Democratic Club, the estab- lished Tammany Hall stronghold of the district. Mike Galmari, from the moment Rofrano declared war on Foley and threatened to “take the Italian vote’ with him, declared himself as a Foley man against his blood-bred colleague. On the day when John P, Mitchel was elected Mayor over Edward EB, Mc- Call a Driscoll was slugged in Madi- son Street by one of the numerous and Foley-inclined Sassi family, Mr, Driscoll, said to be the Eugene of the All day Sunday from the time when Frank jolmore’s confession made tribe, spat forth a few teeth and made some scattered promines, which, Principal Tragedies and In Foley-Rofrano Political Jim Minott, assaulted by Miches! ané Rebert frame #! Coney Isiand Robert Rofrene arrested Minot! and followers aseeull (he Retrane brothers at Coney Island whe | timeny i never be socepted One Basle Calmare-Poley adherent, assaulted = Me oor A who, with bie brother Clement, had been joined by 1 7 vigted murderer Meantime Kofrane tn effort to down Foley as Demoorstic leader “under the |) Retore « trial ry Baldo mart brothers, the avengers, r He anid Carnivale had bi Dim | Muster and Al, were bussing over the Brooklyn Prides.” No arrests ‘= 2 te whole amet! A week later, Leader Foley attacked on the steps of bis bome by fs Reide was indicted for anuer Mike seenerin with @ knife ‘The Gaimarie went free, on sequittal, | 2)” } phy Two days later, Rovco Carnivale (“Rocks Cornel!) an@ Prank || SP Carnivale wae indietes for ewe | ONT An . “Now here Fennimore asseult James Minott to Forty-second Street and Bighth |REPEATEO EFFORTS TO KILL | emery Avenue, * his face with koife. Prosecution refused FOREY AND RIORDAN. nequitt Dee. 14, 1918-—Michee! Gaimers stabbed in the beck ot Market and ‘ardilio shot and killed im front of No. ¢ Monroe Street by two men who escaped March, 1914-—Jobo (“Buster”) end Al Gaimare equitted of murder on confession ot vale, who used name and influence of Michael Rofrano. ed Joe La Balle's face at No. 16% James Btroet after alleged insult to sister of La Balle An hour later, Joe and Tony La Salle shot Minott to death, Both j@ indicted for suborning Joe Baldo to March 4, 1915—Michae! Gaimara murdered at Madison and Chestout Streets by Gaetano Montimagno at 9 A. M. Montimagno convicted and Timothy and John Buckley, John Sullivan and Will- fam Pierce raided Rofrano-Driscol! Home Rule Club and were arrested 21, 1915—Rocco Carnivale, in Gaimara case, pleaded guilty to Awaiting sentence, Sept. 18, 1915—Frank Fennimore, in Gaimara case, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in first degree and accused Rofrano as principal. Sept, 14, 1915—Rofrano indicted for murder of Mike Gaimara, - —— “—|erying: “That's what you get for| easily waiting for word to come from tion | some one. to do his friends justice, were very Devt *The Slensine van away. = nearly ter, In the Mitchel-MeCatt election Gai-|MINOTT KILLED IN OLIVER| DUKE HIS VALET’S BEST MAN. marl showed his ability to cut the Italian vote away from Rofrano, Gai- mari carried the election district of as @ mere inspector for the Sti Compensation Commission, Rofra | Mitchel Administration of a job a | Deputy Street Cleaning Commission er, to come back to the Foley camp. That settled Gaimari Rofrano’s boast of control of the Ital- fap vote of the Second District had, galle's face with a knife. The unequal | #cretary. ant several members of the been spoiled by the work of big.| conflict between the two La Salles | t4%, Of Mr. Dukes office at No. 200 smiling, scowling, heavy fisted, hulk ing shouldered Mike Gaimari. ott, Rofrano’s cousin, was generally pointed out in Italian circles as the cousin of Rofrano, who knew Rofrano well enough to Join the political for- tunes of somebody else. stabbed in the back at Market and Catharine Streets at dusk. YEE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 19 5. ROFRANOFOLEY FED TOLD IN THREE YEARS RECORD ~ MURDER, ASSAULT, PERU opokes but hte hed & reputation Piveet Ceaning, | (ebether earned or net ae @ Biller’ Not prosecuted the| Mowtimagne was Ey ol Phe ‘ » - we Ses ce Lan at Coes Mra Genes Sie Es | eate car perfory hongina up te tee isting confessions of men now to jell, menaced by men with rites Carni- Riera ahoreer as after town Democratic Club, seared away by children. out Ro | ad of Montimagnas defense Mab- Fecomnies |timagne te under sentence to the made bie Chelr He te the one man whore tee jucktly the only witness against you confessed to perjury. From now on you are to be watched. You know who murdered Mike We suspect What you must understand this is not your ouarrel but the me while William rrested for murder — and help the State your serviess ae against them at behest of Carnt- hereby accepted for what they are AMERICAN LEGAL CODE TAKES PLACE OF GICILIAN. Hight then and there Al and Buster |forsovk the Bicilian code and the firet Italian feud murder in the records of District Attorney's office was on its way to be sorved legally by rhe agency of a feudiat ‘Tom Foley sat in his club house at No. 61 Madiwon treet last it with @ nervous smile on his face and an at once aympathetic and ap- pealing twist about the lids of his fat eyelids. And ali about, inside jand out the club house, eat young men and middie-aged men with \ jdoor at No. 1% Oliver # faces whose hands seemed alwa) at to the keyhole he saw the/to be making sure that their |shadow of an arm and a dagger 00 | pockets had nc. been slit since the lass window of the fase time they felt of them, h| In front of the Home Rule Club at 4 No. 4 json Street there was a |whifting crowd all night and this morning, too, It did not threaten, it did not snarl, It seemed to be wu took aim with rifles at the windows Fr Dan Riordan were ren playing on the roots Attorne: |nnme of the children. Tom Foley, in the course of his benevolent des- tiem and his despotic se Mgr Ly operat to the catholic juda- ment of his ‘Detriot, always deserved well of little children, if not of some adults Again, after Election Day, when) Gene Driscoll was swatted by the identified Bassi, there came a ni when Tom Foley was opening eet, As jaimara brothers. came a voice he knew STREET. These things did not improve the general good temper of the district, 15, J Angier B, Duke acted as beat man to his valet, James Edward Smith, when Ignatius of Loyola, Eighty-fourth Street and Park Avenue. Mra. Duke and Mr, and Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle gr, also were with the wedding party before the altar, born vote of the district away from to who was assured by Foley, had been shot to 4 38 Oliver Street. A few minutes before Minott’s mur- der there had been a wordy meeting between Joe La Salle and Minott In Mr. and Mrs. Duke and Mr. and Mra fate. coffes house at No. 16% James Street, Middle motored from Atlantic City to be jection for Mayor showed that| 1,9 Salle said Jim Minott had insulted, present at the ceremony of their ser- Jim Minott had slashed La| ants, and Alexander Sands, Mr. Duke's at No. The and Minott which ended Minott's earthly activities occurred an hour Jater. Tony La Salle was injured tn the|* fight and caught at once by the police. c ASTO R IA the bride and bridegroom with rice as Min. they left the chureh. Joe went to Brooklyn, sought refuge with Carnivale and Fennimore and not captured until Feb. 11 of this Dec. 16, 1913, Mike Gatmart was ar. 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