The sun., 1900-12-09
DEAD ATFlLOMENA'S DOOR.
rEROSI BArK SROw CuBA rO uTTLE
Htfi 10 UCFT THF NNfFE.
HAD ricd 10 cuba After kninns Fiiomsnss
Io,rr, Ps'auaIr iiIioo Lit,ie ttaiy Does
Not need to Ask whom tie Found with
the Giri on Ills Return to New York.

Yesterday morning II was the talk ~ Little
Italy that Giuseppe pcroni had come back
from cuba Ivrrl body remembered how
aud why he had gone go cuba. Last risht
II was tho talk ~ LATHE Italy that Giuseppe
rcroni was dead with ~ stab wound In his
heart and that hi- body had been found In
tho hail Of the house IN which Filomenl
fcroScra had her rooms. Then moro than
ever did everybody remind every other body
how Giuseppe had gone away TO Cuba and
whv
Six months ago. 30 ran the gossip OF the
uptown Italian colony, never was tnan enam-
ored oi woman more than Giuseppe OF fllo-
mcns. Tho won II leaning out Of the tene-
mcnt windows on tho FIRE escapes nodded To
one another and pointed at him a. he passed
somhrely through ii2th street. mutt.r-
ing to himself on his way to the lady's hoUs"
They took good care not 70 let Giuseppe
see them making sport Of his passion. for
hc was known by all to he n violent man.
Many Is the woman. who telling her beads.
has prayed 10 our Lady ofMount Carmel that
whoever might be drinking or playing the
three sevens" with her absent husband. II
might not be Giuseppe peroni.
Therefore there was almost as much Joy
as scandal In the quarter when 1t was told
that the doctors with the benevolence wagon
had carried Pasquale Blco away TO the Har-
lem Hospital with slash In his right arm
that had been made with Peroni's knife and
that IN" police without the uniforms were
searching for Perunl /, was told that no
hal found Paslualo in the Feroseras' rooms
aud that there had been mhoh angry con-
struck Tho police without uniforms found
not giuseppe. but after he had been gone
n letter from him TO Filomcna written In red
ink She took II 70 tho hospital and showed
IL to Pasqnale and even as he lay on his bed
In the hospital lie was moved 70 oratory 20
violently that II was feared that he would
greatly inirre the healing wound
s". Sa's snd t5om se. cTSs ho~
long Il is before he goes to filomena. VINO
love. him not. on the ground foor Of the
ll2th street ia saloon. From the saloon
thore is door into the hall OF the tenement,
50 iGre was tie interest In GIlGsen}es v,.. Eat
door hv many at -espectful distance. When
he went up the stairs thoy stood about tho
door and waited with psten,se FOR wsie horo
come sighed the si2h 81 those who have wasted
'iTe and heyarted ,rnm the rlacse n,,,.,o.
md TS Ss t.s and every little while he vent
in,o The hll naXt 20 the saloon and, 9nd Listened In
Once he went and twice and three umee. az
intervals Of ten minutes. There was no sound
but tie CRYING Of q baby md the .coldinR OF
n mother FOR a careless girl who did not come
home
The fourth time he started TO climb the
stairs with tho idea that he would listen NJ
Filomena's door ard learn what this un-
expected silence meant on the second
floor larding he stumbled over a thing that
was soft He III a match Tho thing on
which lie had stumbled was Giuseppe Peronl.
He was dead There was q stab wound IN
his fore he I'D pnd another IN his lenrt
pigonct'i made all haste with his news
10 the saloon Once again the police without
the uniforms were summoned TO the nome
90
her room The few possessions she had
that might be ea silv carried avnv were gone
Nor was there anv trace 10 be found Of Pms
Gusle Blico in his accustomed haunts. He
had not been seen since early In the afternoon