The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-15
MURDER IN MULBERRY STREET.
An Italian Woman Killed In her Room
by an Unknown Assassin.

stood around the entrance to % Null
berry street yesterday afternoon, and
discussed in whispers q terrible tragedy
that had occurred within. The house is
large double building, occupied al
most exclusively by italian tenants.
The front house is separated from the
rear one by a narrow, dark, and dirty
yard, and both buildings are crowded,
; i'll ventilated, and SO badly lighted that
! the passages on most of the stories are
as dark at monday as in the dead Of
night.
! Among the occupants of the rear
house was Norfino, an Italian, about IS
years of age. He lived with his wife,
| Mary Anna Mangano, and his three
children, the Oldest of whom is only 10
years, in small front room in the Sec
ond story. Mrs. Mangano was rather
pretty young woman, % years Of age,
and an industrious housewife. Her
husband, despite the not very remuner-
alive nature of his trade, ragpicking,
worked SO hard that he was able to fur
nish his room comfortably and support
his family we'll. All the children went
to school and the neighors say that dur
ing the six months that the Mangano
family have been in the house they
have conducted themselves quietly.
Among the other inmates of % Null
berry street was young Italian who
said he was Michael Giacorello, though
it is now asserted by the neighbors that
this was not his real name. He worked
at whatever he could get to do, and
boarded with one of the families in the
house. He came from part of Italy
not far from Manganese native place,
and this circumstance brought about
friendship between the two men. Cha
corelo was in the habit of going to
Manganese room in the evening, and
sitting there for an hour or so. The
intimacy of the young man with the
family, Mangano AYERS, eliminated in
improprieties on Giacorello's part to-
ward Manganese wife. Finally Mrs.
Mangano told her husband of Giacorel-
los behavior. Mangano forbade Cha
corello to come to his room again, but,
despite this injunction, he went there
frequently in the absence of the rag
picker. On Saturday, the husband says,
the woman told him that Giacorello had
entered the room when she was alone
and threatened to kill her. Mangano
cautioned his wife, he says, to keep her
door locked on the inside when he was
away, and not to allow Giacorello to
enter on any pretence. Mangano start
ed on his usual rounds yesterday at
very early hour. At noon he returned,
but the door of his room was locked.
Learning from some of the neighbo1s
that his children had not come back
from school, he came to the conclusion
that their mother had gone to meet
them, as she had occasionally done be-
fore. He waited short time, and, as
she did not come, he went out and con-
tinued his ragpicking.
Mangano, when he went out without
his dinner, said nothing about his wife's
absence; but he had told one of the
women of the threat that Giacorello
had made against Mrs. Mangano, and,
naturally, before many hours had elaps-
Ell, the secret was common property.
When the woman who had made the
discovery that Mrs. Manganese door was
locked, and there seemed to be nobody
in the room, told her friends of the cir
cumstance, the minds of many of them
reverted to that threat. One woman,
who occupied a rear room in the second
story of the front house, could look
from her window directly into the apart
ment rented by the Manganese. She
ran up stairs, and looked out. She
could see woman's body on the floor.
Policeman Nugent of the Mulberry
street police was called, and burst open
the door.
There was no disorder among the ar
ticles Of furniture in the room; every
thing was in it's place. But in the mid
die Of the floor lay the dead body of
Mrs. Mangano. How long life had been
extinct it WAS impossible to say, but the
| limbs were cold and rigid. There was
a deep wound in the back of the head
that had evidently been made with a
blunt instrument No other injuries
were found.
While Policeman Nugent WAS stoop-
ing over the body, Mangano entered.
When he learned what had taken place
in his absence, his grief knew no
bounds. He at once accused Giacorello
of having murdered his wife, and, the
Central Police office having been mott
he'd, detectives were sent to search for
the missing man. Late last night he
had not returned home, nor had the de-
tectives succeeded in finding him. Man.
gano was arrested and locked up, and a
policeman was detailed from the Null
berry street station to watch the body
during the night.
Coroner Brady has charge of the
case, but he was unable to view the body
last nightly. Y. San.
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