Ippolito Greco

Ippolito Greco of 230 E107th, the owner of the “Mur­der Sta­ble” was killed on Octo­ber 7^th, 1915. Greco a saloon keeper with Angelo Gagliano at 227 E107th had been involved in the killing of Bar­net Baff. He received a mes­sage at the sta­bles one night to meet some friends at a saloon on E108th Street. As Ippolito left the sta­ble with four men, includ­ing his brother Vin­cenzo, he was shot and killed. The four men were arrested as wit­nesses, Gio­vanni Vis­erti, Nicola Vit­rano, Fran­cisco Inge­mato and Vin­cenzo Greco. The men told con­flict­ing sto­ries, and Vin­cenzo Greco claimed to have fired his gun into the air to scare the killers, four cham­bers of his gun were found to be dis­charged. He was held on $300 bail as a mate­r­ial wit­ness to the coroner.