New-York tribune., 1900-12-03
MURDERED AND AVENGED.
ONE ITALIAN STABS ANOTHER TO
DEATH-THE LATTERS FRIENDS
FATALLY WOUND THE
ASSASSIN

Frank Tuscani. italian. living in Hudson
ST.. Hackensack. was stabbed to death last night
| about 9 o'clock by John GamboIa, a fellow coun-
tryman Friends of the murdered mar avorf =
his death with stilettos and Gambola now lies
at the point of death in the Hackensack Hos
pital.
Gambola came to Hackensack from Cherry
Hill yesterday to visit Tuscani and other friends
All gathered in a house in Huyler-st occupied
by Italians and drank large quantity Of wine
in the course of the afternoon. Tuscani and
Gambola were quarrelling over a horse sale,
when the latter jumped to his feet ran at
Tuscani and plunged a knife into his neck
Tuscan ran out Of the house and in a few
moments fell to the sidewalk dead. Tuscani's
friends seized Gambola and hustled him out of
the house along dark and lonely road which
leads TO the Jail. AS they showed him along
they stabbed him in the back. His shouts of
''Murder!" attracted the attention of several
passers by. who went to his rescue. His captors
fed 10 the woods. and his rescuers took him to
the Office Of Sheriff Van Buskirk.
There the wounded man had several hemor-
rhages. some of the knife wounds of which there
We're three in his back. extending into the lungs.
He became unconscious, and was removed TO the
hospital in dying condition, after being at
tended by DR.. Conrad
The police arrested four Italians who were
arraigned before Justice Thomas H. Cummings
and held for examination. Coroner Tracy has
ordered an inquest over Tuscanis death for to-
day.
From what the police learned later it seems
that all the men in the place were engaging in
a free fight when GambOla drove his double
razor edged knife into Tuscanis neck, severing
the jugular VEIN He lived less than five min
utes after staggering out into the yard
The stabbing had caImed the fighters and
sobered them, too Gambola had not made any
effort to escape at first, but when il was found
that his victim was dead he and his brothers
tried to get away. They were outnumbered by
this time, as the fight had attracted a crowd
Of Italians The proceedings following the effort
| TO escape appear to have been most deliberate.
From subsequent events it is believed the friends
Of Tuscani planned that Gambola should never
reach the jail alive. and that he should be
stabbed TO death the way. Men we'll known
/ in the Italian colony took charge of Gambola
and announced that they would take him TO the
Jail No alarm had as yet reached the authOri-
ties Ii is said that after Gambola was led away
by the friends of Tuscani other men of the local
colony detained all who wished to follow. Gam
bola was led some distance through the streets
/ in the direction of the jail. but not by the most
direct and public way
Then in a lonely spot he was stabbed again
and again. His face would appear TO have been
jabbed and slashed with the knives of several
men. Four times knife driven into o.s
back. Several times knives driven into
the flesh in other parts of the body. The four
blows delivered in the back believed to be
certainly fatal Each is thought to have peLe-
trated the lungs. The wounds about the face
and body other than the four delivered directly
into the body appear 10 have been given more
with the idea OF inicting torture than of killing
the man.
When stabbed Gamboa shrieked with pain
and called for aid. The whole event of the stab
bing and torture of the murderer took less than
a couple Of minutes, for. when men who ran NJ
from comparatively short distances and out or
nearby houses reached him, he was alone.
Sheriff Van Buskirk acted promptly. he
aroused several deputies and swore in other
citizens TO aid him, and began an investigation
The little police force also lent aid. II was not
until the Sheriff and his men came upon Gam
hOla's brothers looking for him that they began
TO get an idea of what had taken place.
Then four arrests were made The prisoners
were hustled into jail and locked in Isolated
cells Extra guards were placed in the jail 10
see that the Hlen did not escape. Meanwhile
tbs. Sheriff and his set about searching for
others said 20 be implicated in the tale told by
Solomon and James Gambola.
Guards were set at all the railroad depots
with orders 10 detain every Italian trying to
leave By train. and officers were sent TO the
terminus of the trolley line 10 arrest any VINO
tried 10 depart in that manner
IL is said that fully dozen arrests are hkely
To take place among the Hackensack Italians
The Sheriff says ne has reason to belief that
those who remained at the house had full un-
derstanding with these who accompanied the
murderer and that they we're parties before the
act.
Railantine's India Pale Ale Is regularly used al
many OF the college training tables.-AdVt