The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-27
MURDER ON GRAND AVENUE
R1TF1ELE 1LFIERT Stabbed no
DEATH IN COURTLAND FLATS.
Daughters Lover-Almost Double
Murdcr-The Horrible Affair Occurred
About $3.50 Last Night-Two Men Held
Under Suspicion.
Under Suspicion.

| Under Suspicion.
| An Italian named Raffaele Alfieri was
| murdered about $50 o'clock last nigh
in the building known as the Court.
| land Flats" in the rear of No. 75(
Grand avenue. Two men, both Italians
are held on suspicion of having done
the deed. They are, man who gives
| the name of Michael Iovani and Vim
cenzo Pietro Simone. Two different
| causes of the fight which eliminated In
Alfleri's death are related by persons
who live in the fiat where the murder
| occurred. One story is that the fight
other is that it arose over Alfieris OBJ
jections to Simone's paying attention to
his daughter.
This latter is believed to have been
the real cause of the trouble. 1t seems
That Alfieris daughter Theresa, a four
teen year-old girl, and Simone, have
peen very intimate, and that the
glrl mas written number of letters to
Slmohe. AS the story goes, Alfieri
learned of the affair between the two
and objected. He first asked his daugh-
ter to tell him all about the attentions
shown to her by Simone, but she re-
FUSED. The neighbors, who live in the
same fiat, said last night that on The
resa's refusal to tell her father what
he desired to know, he strapped her in
a chair and kept her there for several
days until she finally confessed that she
had written letters to Sinone.
The father then went to Simone and
demanded the letters Simone told him
however, that at the girls request, he
had burned the letters as soon as he
had read them Alferi did not believe
this, however, and gave Simone a GER
tain time within which to produce the
letters, threatening unless they We're
produced within that time to wreak dire
vengeance Oh Simone. According to the
story of the neighbors, this time was UP
last night
The "Courtland Flats are occupied
by large number Of italian families.
among them being the Alfieri family
II,
with whom francesca Pietro Simone
and his brother, Angelo Simone have
been boarding. The apartments of the
Alfieris and the Pecararis are on the
second floor and on the opposite sides of
the hall. Last night the people who
lived in this entry We're startled, but
not surprised, at hearing a sound OF
scuffling in the hall and the sound or
mems voices raised in angry alterca-
ton. In a few seconds something was
heard to fall heavily to the floor and
Alfieri's wife rush out in the hall to see
what the disturbance was. The first
thing that met her eyes as she opened
the door into the hall was her husband
lying on the floor in pool of blood,
which was flowing from a gaping
wound in his abdomen, gasping and
only partially conscious She screamed
and other neighbors hurried out, just
in time according to the stories of some
of them, to see two men disappearing
down the stairway, one of whom they
thought was Francesca Simone
Alfieri was picked up and carried in
to his apartments and laid on a bed in
placed on the bed Beside him. where
he was picked up in the hallway, lay
his hat and wagon spoke. The police
were at once notified and descriptions
of Simone We're telephoned to patrol
men in all parts of the city with orders
to look out for him. He was arrested
about 10 o'clock by Patrolmen Enright
and Lannigan in the house where the
murder occurred.
DIR. klenke was summoned, but AL
fieri was dead before the physician ar
rived. Medical Examiner White was
called and at first, after having exam
ined the wound which caused Altieri's
death, pronounced it to be a gunshor
wound, but later decided that it was
caused by knife, probably stilletto.
The wound was a deep ugly hole in the
left lower part of the abdomen Coro-
ner Mix was out of the city but Deputy
Coroner Callahan was notified and Wis
tied the scene and made an examina-
ton
While the search for Simone was 60
ing on and before the man arrested by
IGnright and Lannigan was positively
identified as him, Patrolman p Hayes,
while walking his beat found an Italian
leaning against the fence at the corner
If Elm and Orange streets and evident
y very weak. Hayes on examination
found that he was wounded and sent
for the ambulance in which the man
vas taken to the central police station.
Police Surgeon Gompertz was called
md it was found that the man had
me in the abdomen and the other about !
IN inch below the apex of the heart.
He was very weak but was able
% give his name as Michael Iovani,
wenty- eight years of age. He said that |
le had been in fight with Raffaie AL /
ieri that Alfieri had stabbed him and |
hat he had then stabbed Alfieri and |
un UP town to Orange street. He was
n such a weakened condition that very !
title information could be obtained |
rom him by Superintendent Wrinn, |
Who questioned him. After his wounds |
lad been dressed by Dr. Gompertz he
vas taken to the New Haven hospital |
n the police ambulance.
In the opinion Of Dr. Gompertz, had
he knife which caused the wound near
he heart struck an eighth of an inch
bove where it did it would have prov
d fatal. AS it was, the knife struck
rib and was DETECTED. The police are
f fhe opinion that the man who gives