The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-11
SHOT HER In STREET CAR
n YOUNG ITALIAN NORMALLY
NO UNDS MS WIFE.

She Had Run Away with Another Mnu,
md They Met In the Gar for the First
Time Since Her E~iopement- when she
Refused to Return to Him He Fired.
A young Italian got on n Second avenue sur
face car. bound up town, at Thirteenth street,
just after 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He
sat down in n rear corner, next to the door, and,
after depositinE a bundle on tho floor between
his feet, he glanced around the car. Sitting on
tho opposite side OF the car was a young
Italian woman. pretty ana we'll dressed.
who had boarded the car near Twelfth
street. She bad seen her fellow countryman
enter the car and had tried to avoid his gaze
When he caught q glimpse Of her face a look of
recognition came into his eyes. He picked up
the package aud walked TO tho seat beside her.
in spite Of the evidont displeasure she showed
at his approach.
Tho man sat down beside the woman and
spoke to her. She turned her back on him
with 80 evident an Intention OF avoiding him
that the attention OF the dozen other passengers
WINS attracted to the couple. The man blushed
and spoke again: this time she replied to him.
They were talking rapidly in a few minutes,
and ms tho car filled up the rost of the
passengers gradually forgot about the cool
greetings the man had got when he first APP
preached her, and gave themselves over to tho
reading Of their evening papers. They were
reminded Of the presence Of the Italians when
the car reached Forty-eigh:h street by throo
pistol shots the man fred at the woman,
1.-THE man was Luigi Cappiollo. and the woman
was his wife. Francesca. who had deserted him,
and whose death he thought he had a right
To bring about to ayenge himself. Luigi is 25
years old and his wife two years younger. She
ran away from him., taking her three children,
In september; 1898. with another Italian named
Frankie Bacificcio.
When francesca left Luigi Frankie opened
n fruit stand near Blanks market on Eightieth
street. near First avenue. She took the chill
made n home for them all. Whether she feared
her husband no one VIII ever know probably,
but matters so shaped themselves that they did
not meet until last night.
When he sat down beside her in tho car he
asked her why she lef; him. She would not say,
nor would she promise to come back to him, 80
he decided to shoot her. One of the three bullets
entered her brain through the left eye; another
cut her scalp. and the third broke the middle
finger OF her right hand.
Luigi dropped the revolver on the seat and
Joined the crowd OF frightened passengers who
were running from the car. which had stopped.
Second avenue. n candidate for a place on the
police force. He grabbed Lulgi's arm and was
dragged by him TO the corner, fifty feet away,
where II crowd Of men stopped the italian.
Policeman Edward Whalen OF the sanitary
squad wRson the fornt platform of the car behind
the one on which the shooting occurred. He
jumped OF and ran to the crowd. which was
threatening to lynch Luigi. He arrested him
and took MIN to the East Fifty-frst street
station house. francesca was carried there.
Capt. Steink amp brought Luigi before her, and
she identified him.
Coroner HOeher was called to take her ante
mortem statement. She could tell him nothing.
She was removed TO Flower Hospital. where an
attempt was made to find the bullet in her head.
She will die. the surgeons say. Luigi was dei-
ant. and seemed proud OF his deed.