New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-05
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MURDERED IN A REAR YARD.
AN ITALIAN CRIME AT NO. 345 WEST
BROADWAY.
ACTING CAPTAIN oKEEFE AND TWO OF HIS
DETECTIVES CAPTURE THE MURDERER
AND HAVE SEVERAL WITNESSES IN

CUSTODY
| Michael Pescento an Italian, twenty-five years
old. of No. "A Mubcrry-st.. was murdered about
o'clock yesterday morning in the rear yard Of NO
| 3l5 West Broadway. An hour later Acting Captain
| O'Keefe and Detectives Linn and Chrystal, OF the
| Macdougal-st. station. had the murderer, his AL
legged accomplish, and al the Witnesses under lock
! and key In the station.
| Pescento. who was driver, went around 10
| visit his brother-in-law. Joseph Fertoneo, al No
/ 80 Thompson-st.. late Saturday night. They sat
around In the smoking and talking until
| after midnight. Then they walked around to West
Broadway They heard music in No. 3i5 and went
| in In the yard they found Antonio Cadono and
| Frank Tusee Csdono playing guitar
while his companion was using triangle. with
/ Pesccnto and Fortonello was friend named An
tonic I.obinto The three newcomers listened TO
the two ple yng for while. and then Pescenio
asked permission to sing. Ii was refused and Cal
dono made insulting remark. One word led 10
another, and a fight followed.
| This is as far as the police have got In their
| investigation OF the causes which led TO the muir
der They know that there a fight. because
Fcrtcnello says that when the fight got hot he
ran Into the street. He was frightened he said.
Fertonelo is an intelligent lad, about nineteen years
old The other man. Lobinto. who is also under ar
rest will say nothing He insists that he was not
present. and knows nothing about the murder. The
police say that Lobno saw the thing done. and VIII
IN
nesses
DROPPED TILE DYING MAN AND RAN.
A few minutes after o'clock Policeman Hart. OF
the Macdougal-st. station. saw Frank Tusee. OF
No 81 Thompson-st. come staggering out Of the
yard OF No. 345 West Broadway with a man in his
arms The man bleeding and gaspins Tor
breath Tusee laid his burden down on the sidewalk
and started to run away. Hart had him in min
ute and took him a to the station. Tusee
|
He Is only tweny-four years old.
What's the matter with that boy" asked Act
ing Captain OKeefe Tusee was taken into the
station
Hart told the trouble and Acting Captain O'keefe
and Detectives Linn and Chrys,al went around to
the scene OF the trouble on the run A dozen police
men in full uniform followed them. They found
Pescento lying on the sidewalk, nearly dead He
was unconscious. There was a wound hVe ihches
long on the left side OF his throat just missing the
ugular vein. The blood was squirting from the
wound There was another nasty cut on the mans
left wrist which he had evidently received whie
| trying to ward off a blow. The worst wound of ALL
however was in the left side Just above the lumbar
region Here a knife had been buried to the hit.
The wound bleeding internally A. every gasp np
that Pescento made the blood poured rom, MT me ne
Leaving one OF the policemen IN cnaIgs oi one
dying man, and sending another for an am6u I,
from St Xncens Hospital 1,o Aens aaP Wes, Broad
way and began Their search for the murderer Ihey
hem hem by bystander as having been with Lo.
BOARDED led Th oD Of a as w ys
way They up to Bovine. and found the man
ard his wife up and takng eHSieGK t ,Gss h
police that Calono had come into the place rev
before He was coyered T Tb Rle1d thing an
that he did on entering the room was TO open me ne
avn M1ne empty " budns Then he washed himself and
Mrs Bovine asked him what the matter and
ne said in his native tongue that ne had had fight
with Mike and cut him. After that he opened the
window and crawled out
THE CAPTURE OF THE MURDERER
That was the full extent Of the Bovnos' knowl-
edge on the subject They pointed out the window
by which the man made his escape Outside this
there was ledge II marked with hood
stains which led to window in the next house.
The officers climbed along the ledge and into the
window, 10 which the bloodstains led. They could
not see anything. but they could hear the heavy
breathing Of some man on tie lar sac Of n on ro corr
ner was a little closet. Chrystal walked up 10 'h's
Caldono sprang out and made rush for, the win
dow Carystal drew his revolver, and the Fellow
stopped at once par o. n'p anrs AIKEN 10 the
street Pescento lay whore he had been dropped
Acting captain OKeefe made Ca.donc kneel be-
side his victim. ana tried TO get the murdered man ian
and Pescento sent to 81. Vincents Hospital
mere was a crowd OF over 1--WE hundred angry Ital-
ans around the place and w2s wisn the bey man
,broueh the mob The extra men in uniform finally
had to form a hollow square around the prisoner
Witnesses were then taken into custody; o.,
Pescento died at st. vincents Hospital at 2:4S
he died. As he was dying he gasped in Italian the
word Beans" He repeated it twice; the ltai ian
name Tor h knnw caidono say caldono and Tusee
viii be taken before the Coroner this morning