The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-06
WAS SUOZzO MURDEREDi
TEE Police AT YORK ON A MYs-
TERI OF LITTLE ITALY.

suozso Died snsiue that re shot urinse,r
THROUGH tho Bedy-Eis wife ana Bonrdsrn
BACKED Up tho Story-The wirc HELD on
Huupicior by the Police. Nevertheless.
Capt. Crecdon Of the East 1O4th street police
station Is trying to solve tho mystery of what
tho police believe was a murder in Little Italy.
Early yesterday morning Antonio Suozzo was
found wounded Mt 422 East 113th street, end
he died n few hours n%ftcrward at the:Harlem
Hospital. A bullet from a 3s.calibro revolver
hud passed through his body. Suozzo, his wife,
Make, and their four boarders all said that he
shot himself, but the police put little faith in
tho stors.
SuozZo aid his wifeshad three rooms, where
they accommodated four boarders. About .
A. NJ. yesterday the wife aroused a neighhor
whom she asked to come quickly to hor home,
as her husband had shot himself. On the way
the man, Rosario Cancro, secretary Of an Ital.
ian benevolent society. met Policeman Clark,
to whom he told the news. and the policeman,
rapping for assistance, and being Joined by
Roundsman Webster and another policeman,
vent with Canero and the woman to suozzo's
rooms. Suozzo lay on the bed dressed in his
undcrclothing and bleeding from two wounds,
one on each side Of his body. In another,room
the four Italian boarders were talking excited
ly. All six told the policeman that Suozzo had
shot himself. After sending him to the hos.
pital the police thought IL hest TO arrest all pres
her husband and the others as witnesses.
The police found a pistol In a box under tho
suozzo said that her husband nut It there after
doubtful. Moreover, tho bullet Ind entered the
body atn point above the waist line on the left
sido and somewhat back Of the lateral niedian
line and had come ont at a similar point on tho
line. AS SuoZso was not left-handed this
seemed n peculiar course for a bullet fired by
quarrel!cd with her. as was not unusual, and
earli.r In the evening. had, blacSencd. her eye.
sh9 was asleep, she said. when he fred the shot
The other Italians also said that the suozzos
had been ouorrelling. They had heard them
were all asleep when the shooting occurred
and were aroused BY the pistol shot. These
biotter; are Frank CorIon, - Years RS old; James
Puni. 4s; VincenZo Stacce, AZ. and Dominica
Corlon. 2s. ANOTHER Italian whom one Of tho
and brought along to act as Interpreter got
MIXED up with the boardeTs and was taken into
years old, OF Il2 East iI5th street.
Suozzo's age was given as 80 years and his
that each was jealous OF the other. They were
married about eighteen months ago,
sn at b the aSspit Ha SqozSo ob repestoa that he had
From the Harlem Police Court Mrs. snozzo
and the witnesses were sent to the Coro, ers'
whether to hold the woman in face OF the gem
eral agreement Of The statements that it was a
case OF suicide. Finally he sent her to the
Tombs and committed the witnesses to the
House Of Detention.
Detectives Sheldon and Wilbur and Acting
Sergeant Jones and Police Surgeon Gordon all
worked on the case yesterday. Acting Ser
gcant Jones found a bullet on tho floor under
the bed, in a place where he thinks 1t could not
have got to If Suozzo had shot himself, or even
II he had been shot on the bed at all. The DO
lice are inclined to think that he was not shot
on the bed. and perhaps not In the room where
he WAS found, and possibly not In the house at
all. The bullet wasn't scratched or fiattcned.
There was no dent made by 1t anyN here in the
room. 1t. hadn't even gone through SuoZzo's
undertaking when it left his body. This leads
some OF the policemen to the opinion that SUI
ozzo was shot elsewhere and went home TO die.
cautioning his wife and the others to say that
he had shot himself. The police have records
of men who even when shot through the abdo-
men have walked blocks afterward.