The evening world., 1888-01-11
THE WORLDS: WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY II, 1888
He had not thought anything Of 1t, and had
turned over and gone TO sleep again.

Ne.S1 WV I" BOhO W ohSNP e5S'
At O'Clock another inmate of the tene-
ment-house in Little Italy," on going out
into the court, found that Beppo. Giovanni
Scalza's monkey, had broken loose and was
wandering around the place. He clutched
the string and piled him into Giovanni's
room. The bed was empty and the clothes in
disorder. This last proved nothing. as they
were always so. But while he was tying up
the monkey Scala cam in. and, %tumbling
on the bed, pulled the clothes up over his
head, and the man saw him trembling under
them slightly for a moment or two.
Hence this was established Pasquale
Morino had cuffed and kicked Giovanni
Scala for acting in too lover-like a way with
his pretty wife. Chiara. Scala had been
very angry and threatened to get even with
Pasquale. He had slipped out of the house
a few minutes after him on the next morning.
He returned an hour later trembling, and
Pasqunlo was found dead in Rutgers street
with n round hole in his head, the diameter
of a 22-calibre pistol bullet.
Giovanni said he had been restless during
the night. and vent of in the morning to one
of the East River docks to cool himself off
with a bath. He was not accustomed to
bathing. In fact, it was developed on the
cross-examination that he had never done
this before. But this was why he o
lightly clad, not because he had risen in n
hurry to follow Pasquale.
who said you were in n hurry to follow
Pasquale ~ asked the counsel whom the
Court had assigned to the case, with a sharp
look AZ the jury.
lie had been too long in the water, and
when he came home was still trembling with
the cold and shot into bed quickly to get
warm.
Unfortunately, Giovanni could not prove
an abb. No one had seen him while he was
taking his alleged bath. The dock which he
picked out as the one where he had taken his
swim was one where u policeman had been
lurking at that very time, on the lay for n
pack of river thieves.
The officer swore that no one had come
near the dock and taken n swim that morning.
Giovanni shrugged his shoulders and said
it must have been some other he wasn't sure
about the dock.
The case did not look very favorable for
Giovanni. The lawyers on each side argued
eloquently. One commended that there was
no reasonable doubt but that Giovanni Scala
was a red handed murderer, who had fol-
lowed his victim, slain him through a re-
vengeful passion on account of the h%ustling
he had received, came back trembling with
fear over his own wicked deed and told n
plausible story which had been proven q lie.
The other argued that there was a little i'll
will between the men which was much
| greater on PasQuale's side than Giovanni's.
The latter was known to be a quiet, we'll
behaved fellow who used to go to mass every
Sunday and to confession regularly. The
murdered man was not even proven to be
murdered. He was found dead, with an un-
explained wound. He might have been
struck in the eye with a stone and have fallen
and died of congestion of the brain from the
shock. No intelligent jury could condemn a
man for murder because somebody died while
he was engaged in the clearly. praiseworthy
operation of taking q bath.
At this j~uncture of affairs, something new
turned up. 1t was a small boy who had re-
ported to a roundsman a conversation he had
Glanced to hear between two other boys.
The roundsman asked what the boys had
said.
They was talkin' over bout an I-talyan
wot they he'd been havin' fun with. The big
Teller SEE to tn other: Jimmie seq he,
that ~I-talyan would a dropped on yer if !
hadn't "a bluffed him wild der broomstick.'
Eyer right said the smaller boy. He
was off of his nut. 'cause he got clipped on
der leg wild der stone.'"
The smaller boy was brought to the station.
and / questioned him before the detectives.
/ told him the italian they had worried was
dead. and that if he didn't tell me how it was
lone it would be worse for him. The little
chap was thoroughly scared and told the
whole thing. He and the other boy were the
lads employed to carry the milk around to
the families in the neighborhood. They
were lounging around the store when Pas
quale showed up and began to investigate
the contents of an ash barrel a short way off
They guyed and worried the man till he
got pretty mad. One of them SHE'D a stone
along the sidewalk and it hit Pasquale on the
ankle. 1t hurt him and he ran over towards
the boys, jabbering at them in Italian. The
bigger one raised the broom he had been
sweeping with and aimed n pretty strong
blow at the ragpicker's head with the handle.
PasQuale threw up his garbage-hook in front
of him to ward it off. The iron was pointing
towards him, and the blow was strong enough
to drive the round iron of the part that was
bent in. about two and a half inches long,
straight into his right eye.
1t pierced his brain, he uttered q groan and
dropped to the sidewalk dead, his hook fall
ing from his hand.
The boys, although they did not appreciate
the injury they had inflicted, got frightened
and ran away. They had not heard of his
death and supposed he got over his pain and
went away.
This was n seasonable relief for Giovanni.
1t made his bath story seem all right. The