The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-05-21
KIN = KIN'S CRIME.
The Killing of Capurro
Premeditated.
SLAIN FOR FIVE DOLLARS.
Felice Had Threatened the Old
Mans Life.
THE POLICE CANNOT FIND HIM.
The Daughters of the Deceased Tell
How the Murderer flung
Around the Alley.

The murderer. Murlo Felice, nicknamed
Kiu-Kin. who stabbed old Augustine
Capurro through the heart in the barroOm
Of the little grocery at 425 Green street
Saturday night. cannot be found.
He has disappeared as if the earth had
opened and swallowed him and his bloody
dagger. II is supposed that fleeing from
the scene of his crime, he made his way
to the water front, few blocks away, and
left the city in a fshing-bOaI. He had
many acquaintance among the folks who
live at the base of Telegraph Hin and 1t is
very probable that he was given what as
sistance he needed.
The police cannot find soul who saw him
after he left the store. yet there were many
people on the street around the place at
the time, for it is very populous district
and the residents prefer the sidewalks to
their little rooms in the tenements.
After wiring a description of the MUIR
deTer to the suburban cities the police sent
a messenger to the owners of the gardens
In Alameda where the fugitive had been
working and learned from them that K IL
Kin had Quarreled with fellow workman
two or three days ago and had left the
place.
The Coroner's once was besieged all day
by people from the hill, anxious to look at
the body Of the old porter who had be en-
tn cir neighbOr for years.
DR.. Or COnneil made an autopsy on the
body and aScertained that Kin hin's knife
had entered the heart The remains were
removed late in the afternoon to Valente &
Godeau's undertaking parlors on Stockton
street, and were then viewed by hundreds
OF his svmpathizing cOuntrymen. Male
dictiOns on the head of the invisible Kin
KIN were heard on every side. and short
shrift WAS his threatened portion if he APP
peared.
There is reason to believe that the muir
der of ola CapurrO was not by any means
so unprecedented as the bYstanders at
The moment believed.
The afflicted family of the old man.
when seen yesterday by CALL reporter,
had different story tell.
IF | had only known that Felice meant
1t, mOaned one of the daughters, q hand
some intelligent young woman, whose
large dark eyes were heavy and swollen
with weeping. Il paid no attention to his
threats, because L thought he was only
Dragging. If | had guessed that he meant
what he said, he should have had the So
II l had had 10 beg on my knees from door
10 door TO get them, and the sound of
stitled sObbing FROM the other sisters in the
uarkeneu room showed now bitterly tneY
100, regretted having paid no heed TO Fee
Ices Ominous words.
The eight children and most of the ten
grandchildren of the kindly, good-hearted
old Italian who lay dead at the Morgue,
had assembled in the house on Lafayette
place where, since their mothers death,
thirteen years ago. when the youngest
child was only II months old, Capurro had
brought them up with fathers and q
mo TIERS love combined.
As though by instin CT yesterday the be-
reaved ones had assembled in the room
where fathers picture" hung, and, as
the genial face in the frame smiled, uncOG-
sciOus of their tears, they passed the many
hours recalling how kind and gentle he
bad always been 10 them. how he had re-
fused to marry again ''for our sake" and