Los Angeles Herald, Volume XLIII, Number 304, 22 October 1918 — USE DE FEUDIST EILT IS ON TRIIILINLII. Father of T*o Men Mysteriously Slain Faces Charge of Deadly Assault [ARTICLE]

USE DE FEUDIST EILT IS ON TRIIILINLII. Father of T*o Men Mysteriously Slain Faces Charge of Deadly Assault

Tony Matranga, last of the feudists of (hat name, was'placed on trial In Justice Brown’s court today, charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The aged (nan, who in recent years has seen his sens and other relatives murdered by the sp-called Mafla lit this city, is charged witJi firing sevaraj shots at Stephen Ardtssons of 441 South Avenue Bighteen, on the night of Oct, 12, The rifle bullets wrecked an auto truck driven by dizxone but missed the driver. According to the police records, there have been three unsolved murders in the Matranga family within a year. Bam Matranga was shot to death at his home at 18W Darwin avenue. Pietro Matranga, his brother, was murdered in like laanner at the entrance to his homa IplO Biggy street, a month later, Thep Joseph Lapaglia, a relative of the hrothers, was shot down. The Matranga brothers were supposed by the police to have taken an aotive part in several Black Hand fires and assaults. They quarreled with other members of the Malta, the police believe, and as a result were killed. Lapaglia met hie dpath because he was thought to given the police information concerning the killing of others and espestally the Matrangas. No clew of thinh; crimes has ever been obtained l>y the policp. The alleged efforts of the elder Matranga to kill Ardizzone is along the same line, the police think, a.s Matranga believed that Ardirzopo belonged to the clique that was responsible for the Matranga deatlis. An unusual feature of the trial today was that Tony Matpunga If. son of Sam Matranga and grandson of the defendant, was scheduled -as the state's star witness, being the only eye witness to the shooting.