Show eye for eye and tooth for tooth daniel gallella sat CHICAGO C on the front stoop of his home at 1010 sholto street watching his nine children romping in the sweltering street he was thinking of another night a 0 year ago just such r night only there had been ten children playing then for on that night mike his six year old son eon had dashed in front of an auto truck and been crushed to death beneath the wheels L the truck had b been een driven at the time by louis who with clement cozzi owns owna tho the independent adent lee ice cream company 1047 taylor street gallella recalled how was arrested on a charge of manslaughter and held for action by the coroners jury as discharged it had bad been the childs fault the jury decided gallello gallella brooded blooded bro oded in tho the country where lie came from the law was modeled on the old biblical statute of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth he went to see Pap Papa orone roue made a sneering reply well youve got nine klos kids left aint bouti you was the stronger and gallella Gai lella was beaten had threatened to kill him if ho bo ever came around bothering him about his boy again and as gallelli Gallel Oa llella ld sat bat ruminating on these things and picturing in hla his minds eye little mike playing again in the middle of a hot street two men came along carrying a largo large tub of tee ice cream they wore were Papa rooe and his partner cozzi maybe it was the peat heat maybe just an explosion of pent up grief gallella rushed into the house and came out with a gun the two me men n with the t tub b were just turning into 1014 sholto 21 8 street bet two doors away you kill my mik you YOU yon kill me met 10 1 0 gallella sh irked od he ele fired sank to the pavement and cozzi fell forward over the sagging tub of cream and you tool gallella shouted raising his gun toward cozal you pay the money and P goes freel free I 1 but the flivver squad from the detective bureau was just passing D detective sergeant W J onell oneil knocked the weapon from the crazed fathers hand before he be could pull the trigger again was removed to the county hospital where he ho bodied died |