The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-20
Italian Ferocity Causes a
Chastity Tragedy
in H0b0ken.
TWO DEAD-THREE WOUNDED.
The Wretch Who Began the Butch
cry Loses His Life = Two
Women His Victims.


suit Of quarrel in a miserable italian
hovel. there are two dead bodies in Par
slows Morgue. one stabbed and the other
shot to death. In st. Mary's Hospital are
three other persons, all more or less
wounded from stab and shot wounds.
The dead are Angelo Caputo, thirty
one years old, of Fifty-third street, New
York. and Rosa Stavelo. fifty-four years
old. of No 1876 Grand street. HoDoken. the
place where the affray took place. Mrs.
Stavelo was Caputo's mother-in-law.
The wounded are Como Chirchello.
eighteen years old. OF No. 1876 Grand
street; Joseph Chirchilio. Sr, of the same
address. and An tonetta Caputo, hand
some Italian girl nineteen years old. 1t
is thought that all the Sc will recover.
MURDER BEING DONE
It was about ten minutes to twelve
O'Clock last night when Sergeant Tanning
was behind the desk at Police Head
quarters in Hoboken that a gray-baired
Italian rushed in and muttered in broken
English that there was vas murder being
Roundsmen Stanton and Stack and Po-
licenian Kardell were instantly dispatched
to the place.
Directly after the police left the station
house two men supporting a third walked
into the station house A trail Of blood
marked their path. The man In the mid
die had a forty-four calibre bullet just
above his left breast He was bleeding
awfully and moaned with pain. DR..
Simon, the City Physician, was
quickly on the scene. He prObed for
the bullet but could not locate it. and
finally the wounded man, who was Como
Chirichello, was removed to st. Mary's
Hospital. and tke ambulance. with several
physicians, hurried 70 1876 Grand street,
where IL was reported there was terri
hls slaughter.
No 1876 Grand street is two-story frame
tenement and is inhabited by very poor
class When the ambulance arrived fully
TWO hundred people were gathered on the
sidewalk, and the police had trouble In
lushing their way through.
rhe officers went upstairs to the apart
mems on the second floor. There they
saw something that would mako the
stoutest heart quail
An old man lay on bundle of rags. He
was half undressed. He was surrounded
By a pool of blood. Blood was flowing
from three stab wounds In an inner
bed room reclining ou a bed were two
women. One was young and handsome.
She was moaning rfccuusly and her nigh {
dress was dyed ret with blood. Along
was literally covered with blood, and
was stone dead.
In another bedroom laying on the floor
was swarthy looking fellow. He was
heavily. Clutched in his right hand was
a forty four calibre revolver, and along
side of him was a keen edged still
etto. BY great effort he
turned over on his side. There were
then d disclosed four gaping bullet wounds,
one in the neck and three In the lower
part of the body. There were two bullets
Embedded In the floor just alongside of
where he lay.
DR.. Simon examined this man aud said
he could not recover
The three wounded persons were re-
moved to st. Mary's Hospital in the am
bulance. AS the man with the four bull
lets in his body was about to be taken
into the hospital he breathed his last, and
the ambulance hurried away with him to
the morgue. The ambulance then went
hack to the house where the affray oc-
Cured and brought the dead body of the
woman to the morgue.
ALL RETIcENT.
In the meantime the crowd in front of
the house had swelled to enormous pro-
portions, and great excitement prevailed.
1t was thought that the person who did
the shooting aud stabbing was yet at
large, and the crowd wanted to catch
him.
Two Italians, boy of thirteen years
ana middie-aged man, who were in the
were arrested as witnesses Sergeant
Tanning found big revolver in one OF
the bedrooms. and also sttlletto
which was dyed with blood He toob
them in charge.
None of the witnesses would say any
thing about the crime at the station house
last night and this morning Captain
Hayes and Policeman Granelli, who is an
Italian, started out and after most thor
ough investigation learned all the facts
obrainable in the case. 1t developed a
most sensational crime.
Angelo Caputn, the dead man, was 81
years old and lived with his wife and
seven months old child in Fifty-third
street, New York. The couple have been
was a very handsome Italian girl
eighteen years old when Caputo
married her. Her maiden name was
Antoinette Chiricheilo, aud her
parents lived at No. 1876 Grand street, Ho-
boken. Caputo, it is said, had a terrible
temper, and about six months ago he
siashed his Young wife in the abdomen
with razor. This happened at No. 81
Baxter street, New York.
FATAL VISIT.
Yesterday Caputo. his wife and child
came TO Jersey City. They attended a
christening on Railroad Avenue: The
christening was over about o'clock, and
CapuEo suggested that they visit his
m0Gher-in-inw, Mrs. Stavelo, at No. l95
0ranu Direct. MfS.SlaEelO WAS InhFElcu oc-
fore, aud when she married Chirichello she
retained the name of Stavelo according to
The custom of her country. Mr.. Caputo
was only too glad to pay visit to her pa
rents and they went 20 Hoboken..
When they arrived at the house in Ho-
boken there were present Joseph Chiri-
chello, the father of AIRS. Caputo. Como
Chlriehsilo, Mrs Caputo's brother, Mrs
Stayelo, Mrs. Caputo's step-mother, Jos
eph Capperino, "a bootblaek. and Frances
ChirichelIo. thirteen year-old boy. The
whole party, it appears. spent a pleasant
afternoon. The men played cards until
late In the evening
About teu o'clock Mrs Caputo said to
her husband that it was about time to
return home. He said that he dad not
intend to 90 home aud that he intended
10 sleep where he was. Chirichello, who
knew his son-in-law's temper agreed TO
let him remain nil night.
Tne party then began TO retire. Mrs.
Cam went into the innermpst bedroom
with her child and stepmother. In the
nex; bedroom were Coro Chirichelio. Jo-
set,l. Coppima and Frances Chirichello.
In .e other room, on bench, the eldest
thirichello lay down and Capnto made
his csuch out of a pile of rags
Scarcely had everybody retired when
Capnlu forced his way into his wife's
room and wanted TO put his tnother-iu-
law ouf The frother-in-laW refused TO