File:Felix Szczęsny (1888-1926) in the Jersey Journal on October 11, 1926, part 1.png

Summary[edit]

Text[edit]

Second Man Is Stabbed In Fight Over Home Brew. Italian Stabber Escapes After Driving Knife Into Bodies of Two Poles. Police Guard Home and Haunts in Search. Raid Speak-Easy After Murder. Ralph Bruinaldo, known in police circles as "Joe the Wop", a car repairman of 329 East Twelfth Street, New York City, is being sought by the the metropolitan section in connection with the death of Felix Suzczesny, 39, of 160 Steuben Street, who was stabbed by the Italian during a drunken brawl early this morning. Another victim of "Joe's" knife, which terminated the home-brew fight is Andrew Zuilkowski, 50, the dead man's stepbrother, who is lying under guard at the the City Hospital today with a knife wound over his heart.

..140iPitatinthoritieS*50 he' milt iecover. • . • •!.Toe's" arreat% Is.. expected • Mottaett,, tartly 'and police are matataining-.4 watch- not-only orer-his•own'^hOntefitr iVew York. but over the homes Ot•it friends and haunts that pollee learned are frequented by the stocky litde Ilan 7 Children Police who Visited the home In New Ycrk this morning. found that the haz. a wife and 7: cht1-. dren. She told the police her rPriuseT left home early yesterday morning any had not returned Apprised of her husband's actions. Mrs. Eiruinaido broke down and" sobbed wh:le the'. brood of youngsters. clung to her.•-.1:.- That bootleg whiskey played.. Lite' lending. part In the tragic. death ..or Suzezesny and the stabbing of his..." stepbrother, the pollee say there is'. no question. The •brawl. Zullkowskt adralts.'in a statement to the poliCP. centered on the. question of whose. turn It was to buy a drink for the trio. The affray ocerzred in front of the' Steuben Street address and pollee who. later raided the place found the :Ho-bart Act had been violated. Suzezesney died at 5:05. this morning of knife wounds in the groin' and. over the heart. ".Ton the Wop" is a man of mystery in the Steuben Street neighborhood. where he first appeared several weeks • ago and which lie had been haunting ever since.. Although many, had .talked.. with him and many others drank. with him, few could be found wits knew his name. A rumor -thit.,he worked for the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad' •Company was invest1-• gated by tile police. who also learned that he had a home tit New York. Tile double stabbing occurred last night at 6::10 in front of a candy and grocery store at .160 Steuben Street which. policee charge. le• a "speak-easy," the place being ridded later in the evening and the proprietor arrested for 'ilolatien of the State pro-, ill

Felix, Andrew, and "Joe" believed to have been on a drinking bout in celebration of their newly formed friendship. entered the store in the building in which the two Poles live. After several rounds of home-brew had passed over the counter and down the throats of the trio, the Pole said "your move" to the Italian suggesting that he buy the next round of drinks. And then the fight started, being commenced by "Joe" who did not at all agree that he should play host. He started striking …
Continued on Last Page, This Section.

Licensing[edit]

This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties. العربية ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−