Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-21
SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD.
An Italian Child Killed on Canal street This MOrning-Thc Slayer. SIccOIo SeIIa. Has Escaped.

An Italian Child Killed on Canal street
 This MOrning-Thc Slayer. SiceOIo SeIIa, Has Escaped.
 What may prove to be another murder tookIplace on Canal street at 10:30 this morning So many stories have been told by people who pretend to know all about the affair, that it is hard to select true one. The victim this time k a child two years and three months old. named Fran cesca RoSSo.
 eJoseph Rosso kreps..a fruit store on East Main street in Bronson block and lives with his family in Cavanaugh's block, 32 Canal street. The oldest child was Fran cesca. shortly after 10 o'clock this morn ing the mother took the child across the street to a ncighbors. Louis Roby. d stone mason, who keeps boarding house at 21 Canal street. Niccolo Sella k one of the boarderS. He has just returned from the hospital, where he had Fan operation per formed on his arm. He has been idle for some weeks. Mrs Rosso left her child in the care of Mrs Roby while she went out to make some purchases in the stores near by. Sella was in the house cleaning revolver which he intended to sell. The child was ! playing around the kitchen. Sclla sat near the kitchen door. which opens ont" a rickcty vcrantla. running along the south side of the house. He picked the child up | III HIS fl Ills lt lbLiN Nllu utI AN SIlt ldN in his lap he kept on with the work of 1 cleaning the revolver. Mrs Roby was ! startled few moments later to hear pis- ! tol shot ane turning towards the door, saw : the child lying on the floor while Sclla stood in the doorway. Sclla suddenly dartcd ont of the door and the woman gave the alarm. She picked the child np and placed her on sofa in the front room.
 The woman'S screams brought in the Il .1, 1,.,. who had learned of the shooting. was on the scene. It required the united efforts of several of the ncighhors to restrain her from doing herself harm. She k in feeble health. having given birth to child only 5 a week ago The husband soon arrived, and when he saw his dead child his grict was terrible. He called down all sorts of vengeance on the head of his child's slayer and had also to be restrained from doing himself harm
 The p"lic,. wcr, notified :,nd ~"rI Detective Egan and Officers Pagan. Ahcrn and Allen were on the scene, It wa> al- most impoSSihl" to7G,t correct version "t the tragedy owing to the distracted con, diti"r of the parents and NIr>. E"hy. Tho following facts were finally glcan,d from thcm M @ M -Ss
 Srlla owes ,To, E">Sn >1o They hay, had .~0mr. words over th,. bill. and some tnlnk SClld took tht~ manner nt revenge The fatlHr-and mother, of the dead child are very bitter. and >',y they will lose all they own to punish S"lia if ,au9ht Sello k a tall. wrll-huilt Italian. 27 wears rf age H, made his escape and has not vet been caught. It is-sa,id he k concealed in one of the Italian lodging houses until tn, excitement blows over. a> he |, afraid of the father and will this evening give himself up.
 The mother of tn, child k >,id tu hv f: eistcl of the Italian who wa> killed "l Canal street al few months ago.
 \ long delay Was occasioncd waiting t"l a medical uXaminrr. nl ANtrllc wa absent from the city and at noon Dr (. II Brown arrived and made an examination He found that the bullet had entered m der the left eye and passed out through tn, top uf the head. The bullet could hay, been fired while tho child Was lying dowI or in the shooters arms. The skin arUun, the eye burned. showing that tn weapon Was close to the child's face whcI the shot was fired. Dr Brown decided t, notify Coroner Mix of New Haven. In , dertak,r Moriarty took charG,. of the rc mains.