Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-30
HAIR-DYE By MISTAKE.
Two Italians Fatally Poisoned In Barber's
shop.
New York Times. 2oth.l


For some time past Eresti Egisto, an
Italian carpenter, has been out of work,
and his friend, Andrew Gallo, well-to-
do commission merchant, Of No. SO Nor
ris street, this city, has taken care of him
at his home, No. 229 south Fifth avenue.
Yesterday afternoon the two friends
went over to Brooklyn, and in an Italian
tailor's shop at No. Al Union street
they met Giuseppe Saetta and Castanze
Terzo, a shoemaker out of work, who
lives in Philadelphia. The men all
knew each other, and at Calo's sugges-
ton, after having taken several drinks
together, they went to Lorenzo Janero's
BARRIERS shop, at No. sc Hamilton ave-
nue.. The barber keeps pOol-table in
the rear of the shop, and while Gallo
was being shaved the other three friends
adjourned to the back room to play
pool. They played one game, and were
Just finishing second when Gallo and
the barber. who was friend of the four
friends. joined them.
Although JancrO had no license to
keep liquor or sell it, he had private
bottle, and one of the pool-playcrS called
for drinks. The fayorite liquor being
a decoction Of aniseed, that liquor was
called for by all except Gallo, who asked
for a cigar, and went into an adjoining
room for few minutes. When he came
back the drinks had been served by the
barber. Calo'S three friends were roll
ing out on the floor, apparently suffer
ing the greatest agony, and Janero was
running around the room beating his
head with his hands and crying.
" I've made mistake I've made a
mistake"
Saetta, who had taken twice as much
of the liquid as his companions, appa-
rently knew that he had taken poison
and what to do for it, for he ran out of
the shop and into Il grocery next door,
where he snatched up a bottle of sweet
oil, and drank the contents at a gulp.
Vomiting Immediately followed, and he
was saved. Terzo and Egisto, the other
two men. rolled around on the floor, and
in about ten minutes after having swal-
lowing the liquid they died in the great
est agony. BY this time crowd had
gathered in the place, and some one
went for DR.. Welton, at Sackctt and
Clinton streets, but when he arrived the
men were dead. As soon as he diScoy-
cred the fatal results attending the
drinks he had served Jancro disappear
ed. and has not yet been found by the
police, who are anxiOusly hunting for
him.
The bodies Of the dead men were laid
out on the pool-table, and Saetta, who
had recovered from his dose, and Gallo
were arrested as witnesses and taken to
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT statiG;".- house, the
BARRIERS shop having been taken charge
of by the police. The three glasses
rom which the men had drank, and
which still contained some of the poi
sonous liquid, were also taken to the
Station-housc. The ambulance surgeon
from the Long-ISland College Hospital,
who was called to the place, said that
from the appearance of the dead men it
was probably strychninc that killed
them. 1t certainly was not arsenic,
and it might have been one of half
dozen other poisons. No physician saw
the remaining liquid in the glasses last
night. and its nature is not yet known.
The bottle from which it had been taken
could not be found.
The death of the men apparently was
the result of an accident Gallo, the
only one Of the witnesses who could
speak enough English to make himself
understood, told Captain Riley last
night that Jancro had no license to sell
liquor, and to protect himself from the
police he kept it in unmarked bottles.
The poison, Gallo said, was "A decoction
that Jancro used in making a hair-dye
mixture. and as it had been inadyertent-
" left in a bottle near that containing
the anisced he had made a disastrous
mistake in serving the drinks.