New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-05
STRAY SHOTS AUSE DEATH.
A WOMAN AND. A CHILD KILLED IN
BROOKLYN.
CAUSED BY HEART DISEASE - TALKING
WITH HER SON WHEN sHOT-A RIFLE
BALI. PASSED THROUGH THE

CHII.D's HEAD
Mrs Catherine Paetow forty-seven years old.
while sitting with her fourteen-year-old son In
front of her little grocery store at No 26
Withers-st, Brooklyn. Wednesday night. was
shot and killed by some unknown person.
When Mrs Paetow received the fatal wound
she exclaimed to her that she had been
shot and then fell forward 10 the sidewalk on
her face.
call was sent to the home Of DR.. Small at
Lorimer and Withers sts and also to the East
District Hospital Surgeon Stenberg re-
sponded with the ambulance and both physi-
clans pronounced death to be due TO heart dis
ease. despite the fact that the son. Robert told
them his mother had been shot
The body then carried into the house and
preparations begun to place II on ice
Edward Gennon. undertaken. had charge
OF the body, and. on removing the clothing.
discovered the wound which had been plugged
by the clothing. stopping the flow Of blood
AS soon as the garments removed. the
blood spurted out and formed pool on the
floor
DR. Small was again sent for and expressed
surprise on learning that death had resulted
from a bullet wound. From the size OF the
wound the bullet had evidently been fired rom
Winchester rifle. II had passed through the
right shoulder to the heart. and there imbedded
and Detectives Finnigan and Carroll were put
TO work to discover who fred the shot
Much indignation was expressed against both
DR.. Small and Surgeon Steinberg for railing TO
discover the cause OF death when they ~
amned the body. Their failure 10 do so gave
the person who fired the shot ample time to
escape. 1t Is not known whether the Killing
was intentional or accidental The neghb1f-
hood is an Italian colony. and has been the
scene Of many bloody lights. 1t is believed
that the shot was fired from one of four two
houses
The husband of the woman Is dying "i com
sumption. and 1t is feared the shock VIII has'sh
his death No arrests have as yet been inah''
Coroner Creamer has ordered an autop3y.
Katie Coyle. a seven-year-old child. died last
evening in the homeopathic Hospital from n
bullet wound In the head. received while stand
ing at an open window of the apartment OF her
uncle. Edward Layton. at No. 100 Sandlorn-St'
The child is orphan and lived WIN a ma,
ried sister at No 995 Myrtle-ave. Yesterday al
ternoon she went to the Sandford-st. house 7"
visit her uncle and play with her cousin annie
Layton. ten years old. The children We're PIal
ing for while. when Katie ran 10 tne open
window and looked ou. into the yard. Ih'
Laytons live in a rear house. and the children
were on the second floor.
Annie Layton followed her cousin TO the win
dow and as she looked out she saw FRANK Ma
sino. an Italian. loading revolver on the PACK
minute later there wa a report ana kaus l'ii
TO the floor with bullet wound In the heau'
Annie ran to pick her up. and. seeing the hlooh,
began to scream. and att,acted the attention OF
Mrs Layton who was in the lower part oi inc
house ,.,
A call was sent to the Homoeopathic hospital
and when the surgeon arrived he foundthe puI,
let had entered over the right eye, passsd
throush the brain and out of the base OF IN"
skull At o'clock Masino gave himself up 10
the poice Of the Eleventh Precinct. ana said
th- shoottns was an accident Later he denied
that he had fred the shot. and said ne had gone
10 look for a friend at he station-house ne
could not give the name OF the man ne was
seeking however. 7 ne child Annie Layton.
Identified the prisoner as the one she saw load
ing the revolver.
Masino Is twenfy-seVeh years "'"' an" NV"
WalWOrth- OF.