New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-09
STABBED TWO SISTERS.
THE SHOCKING CRIME OF A FRENZIED
ITALIAN.
HE LAY IN WAIT FOR HIS VICTIMS AND RE-
PEATEDLY PLUNGED a sT1LETTo INTO THEM
ONE AT LEAST. WILL PROBABLY DIE
THE DEED PROMPTED BY REVENGE.
HE LAY IN


THE DEED PROMPTED BY REVENGE.
A shocking deed was committed in front OF No.
S25 East Eighty -eighth-st. at five minutes before
IL o'clock yesterday. An Italian stabbed two
young women repeatedly With stiletto. infiict-
ing wounds from which both may die.
The assassin is Fflippo Giampapa, forty-seven
wears old who has shoemakers' shops at No 2o2
East Observation-Disclosures and NO. Isl East
One-hundred- d-seventeenth-st., and who lives
with his wife at the latter address. He is tall
heavily built. swarthy man. with black hair ana
a heavy black mustache 1t is said That ne was
a notorious desperate in his native country. Ills
victims were Kate We'll. eighteen years oid' ana
her sister Rosa, twenty-seven years OLD. VINO
lived with their parents in the fiathouse NO AZ
East Eighty-e:ghth-st They are Polish Hebrews.
The sisters were walking down East Eighty
eghth-st on the way to their home while Clam
papa was hiding in the vestibue OF NO. So
awaiting them In his hand he held suletto
eight inches in length, made from piece of
quarter-inch steel sharpened to needle-poiht
and placed in an awl handle. AS the women
reached his hiding-place. Gampapa. seizng Kate
We'll by the throat. plunged the stiletto into her
breast near the heart. The wounded girl
screamed in agony. and her sister shrieked for
to the ht in the woman's breast, the assassin
drove it again and again into his victim accom-
panying each stroke with curse.
George Hohenstein was driving an icecart up
the street when he saw the murderous attack.
Hohenstein shouted to the assassin. and jump
ing from his wagon. ran toward him. BY this
time Champagne had turned to Rosa We'll. who
stood paralyZed with fear, and. Selling her by
the throat drove the sitletto into her body over
and over again. He plying the weapon on
the woman when Hohenstein seized his arm
Then he turned upon Hohenstein and struck at
him with the stiletto but without wounding him.
Hohenstein loosened his hold, and Giampapa
ran toward First-ave., pursued by Hohenstein,
who saw him passing the stietto between his
lips as II to clear 1t of blood.
At the corner stood William Washington, a
colored carpet-layer, who had heard the shrieks
of the women. He saw Giampapa running down
the street and attempted TO head him off. The
Italian maze pass at him with the stlletto,
drove him out of the way. and then, throwing
the stiletto from him. started down First-ave',
Washington joining in the chase. lie ran as lar
as Eghty-seventh-st., when he found himself IN
tercepted by several citizens. He then turned IN
his tracks. but had run only few steps when
he was seized by Hohensein and Washington,
who had picked up the stiletto.
He was GREATNESS and made no resistance, and
his captors were leading him 10 the police sta
ton in Eighty -eghth-s when they came face TO
face with the two young women, VINO, covered
with blood and so fa~- that they could hardly
walk were being assisted 10 the station by sew
eral citizens.
AS Giampapa saw them, he struggled to es-
cape as If to renew his assault upon them. lie
laughed like a demon as he struggled to free
himself and shouted: ME killa you, me glad
Two policemen met the party and took them to
the station where Kate We'll tainted from loss
Of blood.
An ambulance took the sisters to the Presby-
terrain Hospital The surgeon said that Kate
Well who had seven stab wounds one near the
heart and the others in the arms. back and
breast could not possibly survive. Rosa Wen,
who had received nine wounds. the most serious
one being in the back. near the spine, might re-
cover he thought.
Policemen took Giampapa to the Harlem Court
and arraigned him before Magistrate Mott, who
committed him without bail
The cause Of the tragedy dates back about two
years when Kate We'll met Giampapa and fell
in love with him. He betrayed her. and the III
tmacy was maintained ur til some time last May,
when they Quarrelled and separated. Gampapa
kept the baby which the result Of their in
timacy He kept annoying the girl with his at
tentions and she twice had him arrested, the
last time being Wednesday, Magistrate Mott
Yesterday morning held him in $500 bail to keep
the peace and paroled him until this afternoon
in order that he might procure a bondsman.