The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-25
MURDER WAS HIS ERRAND.
OPENING FIRE ON TWO WOMEN WITH
A PISTOL IN EACH HAND.
After woundinE Ills wife and Her Mother
with Two Bullets Out of six. Romano
shoots Himself Once, md May Die OF IL.


After VyoundInr HIS wife and Her Mother
with Two Bullets Out OF six, Romano
shoots Himself Once. md May Die of It.
Because his wife refused any longer to sup
mort him Frod Romano faced her and her
mother in their tenement Mt q Mulberry street
last evening with q revolver IN each hand and
attempted to riddle both women with bullets.
He hit each of them once. and then he went
into another room, and Just rs a policeman ran
up the stairs he put bullet through his own
neck. He was about to fire again when the
policeman dsarmed him.
Romano is an Italian. about &c years old,
and his nechbors give him bad name. He ia
blacksmith, and no had work when he want
ed It at n mnchinist's In Charles street. lie
married his wife. Rosa, noarly eighteen years
ago. and they have four children. boys, the
eldest about 1G years old. For about eleven
years, 30 members of the family and relatives
say, Romano has contributed little or
nothing to the support Of tho family. His
wife and her mother, Mary Arata. havo sup
ported themselves and the rest Of the family
by washing and other heavy work. Who he
worked Romano earned good wages, but he
was dissipated. BY his drunkenness and ca
rousing he interfered with his wife's employ
ment, and several times within a year or two
she has THIN. The last separation took
place about two months ago, when Mrs. Ro-
mano, her mother. and tho children hired
rooms on tho third floor Of the Mulberry street
tenement house.
Romano went there frequently and tried to
persuade his wife 10 live with him again. She
refused. Then no threatened her and her
mother as he had done many times before.
The women know he carried pistols. but he had
made threats against their lives so many times
that 1t was an old story. He went there yes
terday afternoon about 3, o'clock and again
him hfn0u that s WI" she @ had tried him too HH many
times; that he ,0idn't keen his prom
ises. and that she was done with him.
while he went out. lie. returned about I
O'Clock with some underclothes no had pur-
chased. His vile was ironing. her sister was
washing clothes in the front room. ana Mrs.
Arata was in the adjoining room.
5 bn wemen S opei With bi IN
friendly conversation. Presently, without any
display Of temper the man pulled out two re-
volvers, and exclaimed
Now. see what I've got for you"
His wife and Mrs. Arata screamed when he
pointed the weapons at them: and the sister
says she had not reached the head of the stairs
before Romano began shooting at both women.
He fred six shots at them but only two hit
Mrs. Romano was shot in the groin. and MIS-
Policeman Holahan and Detectives Chrystal
going into the back room when they reached
ton followed him. but they were not in time to
prevent his turning one OF his weapons on him
self. He had fired a shot n his neck when
the officers seized him. They dsarmed him
with great difficulty, but he was losing blood
So rapidly that he soon became weak; and.
NAMED quiet. In the other room Mrs. Arata
was found upon a bed and Mrs. Romano in a
chair, both bleeding seriously. One Of tho as
sailants ilve-chambered pistols, all its cham
hers empty, lay in pool OF blood upon the
floor. There were several bullet marks about
the room. for the man had fired six shots at
the women.
Romano. who was the most dangerously
wounded OF the three was carried OIL in an
ambulance to the Chambers Street Hospital.
Tho two women refused 20 GO In the Same We
hicle. and they went in carriage. Both were
able to mako brief statements II out the shoot
ms. When thp police asked Homano why he
shot his wife he said:
Me Gala her: she no come" He would
make no other statement.
At the hospital it was found that Romano's
wound was very dangerous. He has lost a
good deal Of blood. and his chances OF recovery
are poor Mrs. komano's injury is a bad one.
but she will probahly recover Mrs. Arata Is
not seriously hurt The bullet was extracted
at the hospital, and she will probably be all
right in few days.