The evening world., 1893-10-10
WAS IT A MURDER :?
italian Barber Found Dying in
Mulberry Bend.
Nay Have Been Thrown From a
Tsnement-House Roof.
me Police. However. Think He
Fell on While Drunk.

An italian supposed to be Leonardo
Diet, barber. Of Paterson. N. j..
found dying in the aileyway be-
tween, the houses l9-5l Mulberry
street, 10 the bend" at LAO A..
M. to-day. He died few minutes
afterwards There were some sus-
picious circumstances surrounding the
mans death which at first led the police
to believe that he had been murdered.
The following named persons were ar
rested as witnesses:
Salvatore Drosi. laborer, twenty
three years old, Of A Mulberry street
Antonio Laporta, twenty years Old.
bootblacl, Sc New Chambers street;
Amegretto Jello. laborer. twenty-four
years old, Of III Elizabeth street; John
Rosso, laborer. nineteen years old, OF
Cherry street; Siiquel Bolingi, laborer
forty-fiye years old. of SO Mulberry
street and Michael Paulinea, OF %
James street.
Policeman Downing was on post on
Mulberry street when his attention was
called to the man in the alley by the
persons detained as witnesses. The
men said that they heard some one cry
Downing found the stranger lying in
the alley about three feet from the en-
trance. groaning loudly; me po aw that
the man was dying. An ambulance was
sent for. but the stranger died just as II
Downing examined the body and found
q piece OF clothes line apparently tied
around the right leg. The left wrist was
severely bruised.
1t looked ike case OF n n,uitn a and
took them to the Elizabeth street sta
tion. whittier the body was also re-
moved. ,,,,x
years old and five feet seven Inches In
height, stout build, having dark hair ana
eyes and brown mustache. he wore
missing. In his pockets were found ten
cents, a razor and a pair OF shears. IL
is thought that he was a. barber. Be
yond the bruise on the wrist there were
The five Italians said that the dead
man was a stranger to them The po-
lice allowed many Italians living, In the
an cod % Gex a. the 0ooS Out
From a sursory examination 1t was at
found around the mans leg had been
tied with double knot. ana the police
thought they had murder mystery on
their hands. Upon later examination
It was discovered that the rope had not
around the leg. The rope was piece
OF ordinary clothesline about three feet
long. with loop through which one end
was sticking
made a thorough investigation. and de-
cided this morning that the man death
was accidental. The mans hat was
found On the roof Of 81 Mulberry strfe
several feet wide. The only entrance
Into No. 81 is from the alley. -
have clotheslines stretched across the
alley: The police In their investigat lions
dead ma..'s leg was found to be part of
one Of the lines. AS the strangers hat
was picked up on the roof of 81, the po-
lice think that the man tumbled from
he struck the washllnes, breaking them.
and the piece of one of the lines wound
itself around his leg. The .piece, fitted
juries on the dead mans wrist were
caused. II Is thought, by scraping against
the wall in his fall
None Of the Italians living At 81 heard
the finding OF the man In the alley.
The scuttle leading to the roof of 81 was
found to be securely locked. but the
that the dead man was drunk and wan
dered up to the roof Of SO Mulberry
street, crossed over to 81, and may have
gone to sleep there and rolled off or fell
while staggering across the roof
The police interviewed all the tenants
living In both houses, and all say there
was no noise on the roof II the man
had been thrown from the roof In a fight
some OF the people in the house would
have heard the commotion. The dead
mans neck was broken.
Policeman Downing ascertained this
morning that Paulinea and Dieti had
been drinking in saloons in Mulberry
street up to 1l.30 o'clock last night.
Paulinea, according to the policeman,
u an ex-convict, having served two
terms In Italian prisons and one term
In Sing Sing for burglary.
Deputy Coroner Donlin made an eN-
animation Of the body this morning and
found that death was caused by a frac-
ture OF the spine and pelvis. evidently
sustained by fall.