The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-11-09
Full Particulars Of the Dover
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TILE INQUEST YESTERDAY
The Last Chapter OF Love
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Interviews with the Dying Beriotti and with
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The Romance and Mystery Of
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@ DOVER, N. j., Nov. 9, 1872
Dover is q struggling village Of some two thou
sand Inhabitants, situated on the Norris Canal, in
Norris county, and Ia cut In twain by the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western Railroad. at distance
OF forty-tws miles from New York. The hills
around contain deposits Of iron ore, and among
them are the hamlets Of many miners so that,
with the population OF few square miles round
about the village proper, it claims to rival
MOrristown, the county seat. The people seem
to be OF average enterprise and intelligence,
more like farmers in manner and appearance than
like tOwnsfolk, and OF that general character OF
those with whom . sensation, Of whatever kind or
calibre SO that it Is local one, takes precedence
over oil affairs Of state or nation. Under ordinary
circumstances the late election would furnish food
for conversation here for weeks; but now all
political questions dwlndle into nothingness
before the red gloom OF . dastardly muir.
der In their midst. At one end of the
village, in the upper story Of an under
takers shop, lies the gashed and CORY
corpse OF woman yesterday full Of health and
rejoicing in certain dark beauty that even the
coarse and unclean habiiments Of poverty could
not conceal. At the other extremity OF the town
the man with whom she had lived, and who, per-
haps, she loved, ts stretched upon pallet on the
noor struggling in the grasp OF death. Both were
young, and both were Italians and their story is
full Of the passion and treachery with which the
character OF their race Is ever painted.
THE STORY OF BoRroTTI
Two years ago young Italian, flne-looking and
pleasant in manner, sober and industrious in bis
habits, came to the village of Dover. He had no
wealth save the little stock Of shoemakers' tools
he carried in sack and what may lie concealed
In robust health ana an earnest intention to work
He hired o basement and put up his sign over the
door. He was found to be q very skilful workman,
and tine people hooked & to his shop. In
few months he had to employ assistants, and
soon he had four or five men busy on his benches.
At the end Of year he obtained the lease OF q
store In the same building where he had begun 80
numbly, and purchased in New York Q fine stock
OF goods, But clouds were gathering, and sud
denly they burst at an unexpected moment, involv.
ing him In financial ruin. He was forced into bank
ruptcy, and then began to unwind the thread that
involved his all ana may yet end In his death. He
A MARRIED MAN
might claim the sum Of 300 from the wreck OF his
fortune In the Bankruptcy Courts and he probably,
at the same time, remembered a young italian
woman OF very cOmely features, who had long,
Jet black tresses and teeth like pearls, whom he
had met months before in the slums of the
metropolis. He visited New York and brought
back on his return this woman. whom he called
Johanna, and introduced as his wife. Some
OF the people OF the village understood that
she was his workwoman and housekeeper, and all
observed that she toiled hard and faithfully. But
about this time he went before the Commissioner
of Bankruptcy and claimed the benefit of the $7O0
exemption clause on the ground OF his marriage.
He took little shop in the rear Of the store he had
occupied and facing on another street, and in the
one room worked eat and slept. long counters
relic of his larger venture--beneath which was
the bed-a pallet on the noor--was the only parti-
ton separating the place OF cooking rom the place
Of benches and shelves. This occurred In August.
and all through that month ana the succeeding
ones till the black Thursday OF this week came he
ing till night, and many 81 the old customers who
had forsaken HIM with the first departure OF his
good fortune came back. H
ALL THAT rs KNOWN or JOHANNA LUIGI
at the present moment is that she came from the
She was said TO be older than he. They give her
age as twenty-seven. She was Of medium height,
Her great attraction, however, seems to have been
pssuu shs ar ana eyes aa her aut
Insi go he On" gives his nsme and S Ses
With him in q wretcne sd,I rear tenement IN
tragedy came which placed her bloody ana man
gled form in the coarse pine box where saw it
THE SCENE AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE MURDER.
Asy0u enter the door OF BOr0tti's shop there Is
bench, with Its back TO small counter almost
directly IN front OF YOU and some eight feet dis
bench. Upon this last at nine O'Clock
SencS asked 4 he might 6e seated me s reply yV was
"Certainlyr The stranger looked down the room
and saw the woman Johanna; nc pointed towards
ward and, speaking In Italian, said, II was your
wife, but you denied me. am your wife no Ion
GER Then Luigi--for he was the stranger-re-
COME HOME WITH NE; LOVE you;
don't want you to be bad woman. You must
come" Finally the two walked up and down the
looking out OF the window, saw another man, q
stranger, standing outside watching the two who
were walking. Just then two customers Ia Mr..
few moments and when they passed out left the
door ajar, thinking the man outside was going in.
little while later the second stranger, an elderly
q working man, entered and with him Boriottl |
conversed in regard to the woman and her hus-
band Boriotu also spoke to Johanna, and they |
steps; Luigi and his wife went towards the door;
there was q quick alteration, q struggle and q |
MASKING Of STEEL and the woman fell forward the
upon Luigi and struck him under the left ear with
hammer, then began crying,
Some men came up and captured Luigi and
Phillippi. Bor0tti went and sat down ON the
bench where Lug had been sitting and suddenly
tainted. II was then found that he had been twice
stabbed In the breast and abdomen. Johanna was
lying on her face on the steps, her hands stretched
out and feeling the wall spasmodicaly. She wss
lifted up gasping, and the blood oozng from her
vi Luigi iY and PSiilippi were arrested The excite