The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-10-10
WAS IT A MURDER?
italian Barber Found Dying in
- Mulberry Bend
Nav Have Been Thrown From a
Tenement. House Roof.
re Police, Hewsvsr. Think He
Fell or While Drunk.

An Italian supposed to be Leonard
pisti, . barber. Of Paterson, N. j..
found dying In the alleyway be
tween the houses 4s-5 Mulberry
street, In the bend" at 40 A.
M. to-day. He died a 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.
bootblach. IS New Chambers street;
Amegretto Jello. laborer. twenty-four
Year, old. Of III Elizabeth street; John
Rosso, laborer. nineteen years old. OF
Cherry street: Snquel Bolingi. laborer'
forty-nve years old, OF 50 Mulberry
street, and Michael Paulinea, OF IS
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. Inc
men said that they heard some one cry
Downing found the stranger lying in
the alley about three feet 1h from no, tne em
tried to rouse him, but soon saw that
the man was dying. An ambulance was
sent for. but the stranger died just as !.
Downing examined the body and found
4 piece Of clothes line apparently tied
around the right leg. The left wrist was
n looked like case OF murder and
Downing arrested the five Italians and
took them to the Elizabeth street sta
ton. whittier the body was also re-
The dead man was about twenty-six
years old and Ave feet seven inches In
height, stout build, having dark hair and
eyes and brown mustache. he wore
missing. In his pockets were found ten
cents, q razor and pair OF shears. 1t
10 thought that he was a barber. Be
yond the bruise on the wrist there were
The i've Italians said that the dead
man was q stranger to them. The po-
lice allowed many Italians living In the
nsishoorhOoSd , TO- i99k at the BODY but
From a sursory examination 1t was at
found around the mans leg had been
thought they had a murder mystery on
their hands. Upon a later examinatio
It was discovered that the rope had not
been tied at all. but was simply wound
around the leg. The rope was piece
OF ordinary clothesline about three feet
LONG. with a loop through which one end
was sticking
made a thorough Investigation. and de-
cided this morning that the mans death
was accidental. The mans hat was
found on the roof of 81 Mulberry street
allsy running between Nos. 40 and 81 is
several feet wide The only entrance
into No. 81 is from the alley. -
alley. The police In their Investigations
found that two OF the lines were broken.
and the piece found wound round the
one sed Of the lines wa As the
was picked up on the roof OF 81, the po-
lice think that the man tumbled from
the roof into the alley In his descent
and the piece OF one of the lines wound
itself around his leg. The piece fitted
one OF the broken lines exactly. The in
1uries. on the dead mans wrist were
the wall In his fall.
None of the Italians living at 81 heard
any noise or sounds of scutfie prior to
The scuttie leading to the roof Of 81 was
found to be securely locked. but the
that the dead man was drunk and wan
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
wab no noise on the roof. If the man
hid been thrown from the roof In a fight
ZONE Of the people In the house would
mans neck was broken.
Policeman Downing ascertained this
morning that Paulinea and Diet had
been drinking in saloons in Mulberry
etreet up to 1870 o'clock last night.
Paulinea. according to the policeman,
- an ex-convict, having served two
fefUs In Italian prisons and one term
n Sing Sing for burglary.
n Deputy Coroner Donlih made an ex-
4mlnaton Of the body this morning and
1on4d, that death was caused by n frac-
ture Of the spine and pelvis. evidently
sustained by q fall