Omaha daily bee., 1890-07-06
THE CRIMES OF OTHER DAYS.
Some of Them Recalled by Those Of More
Recent Commission.
WE'LL SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
The Desperat, Struggle in Which He
Afterwards Engaged and the
Narrow Escape His AS
sailant Enjoyed.
WE'LL SHOT THROUGH THE HEART

What crime scene would result were
there to appear, at one and the same moment,
in Omaha apparitons of all the tragedies that
have occurred here.
There is not a street. not square in the
business portion Of the city on which could
not be found contributor to the ghastly tab
leau.
And yet, Omaha stands far from the head
in the crime list of cities similar in size.
Heaven knows and the Judgment day will
show,' said an oll-timer one day last week,
''that there've been murders here more than
enough to curse bigger and brighter city,
"For one reason and another,n continued
the speaker, who has seen Omaha grow from
$4,000 to its present number of
souls, ~ have paid tolerably close
attention to the deeds Of blood that have been
enacted here, and, do you know, l have dis
covered and been watching an odd fact-pcr-
haps not so odd, eithcr-in connection with
such things from year to year 1t is this
The display of nerve in connection with this
sort of killing has been growing less and
less every Year, save rare exception now
and then. The night sneak style has sup
planted the bold, daylight, face-to-face
shoot down. Whether the former may be
called natural accompaniment of our al
Vanced civilization / do not know, but my
observation shows me that the latter seems
to have gone with the 'wide-open' time when
tiger dens and dance houses ran free and
made less noise than the present electric
motor cars.
"Another difference between the old-time
and the new, and that notice is becoming
more prominent every day, is the increase of
public sentiment in Omaha favsrable to hang
ing men who commit murder-and this, too,
in spite of the fact that it is twenty years
since the death penalty was enforced,
"a fruit store in a little one-st0ry build
ing on the west side of Thirteenth street be-
tween Farnam and Harney was the scene of
as bold and deliberate a murder as ever oc-
cured in the city. The proprietor, an ltal-
ian, whose name cannot recall was the VIC
tim The porpctrator was another son of
| Italy named GuizzellO. In 1874 1t seems that
| the two men were partners in the handling of
counterfeit money. They mad fierce quar-,
| rel about the division Of a lot OF it, and
parted, Guzizello claiming that he had
| been cheated and that he would kill his part
| ner the next time they met.
A few hours later Gui2zell0 was arrested
for horse stealing, tried, convicted and sent
TO the pcnitentiary for five years.
Upon finishing his time he returned
| straight to Omaha, and Walking into his old
| partners place of business, in broad day
| light shot him dead Guizzello is now serv-
| ing life sentence at Lincoln for the cold
| booded crime.
| "a walk Of one block cast and two blocks
north takes you to what used TO be the old
| Buckingham variety thcater and which is
now a big TN shop-west side Of Twelfth, be
| tween Douglas and Dodge. At a midnight
early in the SOS a very dizzy dance was in
| progress there. While the Carousal was at
| its height man named Tom Price pulled out
apistOl and began firing into the crowd
| Other pistols came out and a little later a
well known young man named Jlmmy NJ