New-York tribune., 1903-01-03
SHOT THROUGH CURTAIN
Italian Professor Killed an Missing
Partners Home.
POLICE SAY he WAS TRAPPED.

Professor Dominica Baruola teacher OF IAN
guages and a real estate broker, agent for the
New-York and New-Jersey Real Estate I'm
provemetnt Company. with offices at No o2o
Broadway was murdered in Harlem last night.
The police believe he trapped ana shot
down. He was killed at No 316 East one-hun-
ed-and-thirteenth-st.. the home of his part
in the real estate company, Giuseppe A
Pasca. Giuseppe and his Louis have disap-
peared. and the police say they are looking Tor
them.
Rosa the wife of Giuseppe: Clotilda Pasca,
twenty, a millfner and Elvina. eighteen. high
school scholar daughters of Giuseppe, and An
fhouy Decesare seventeen arrested by
ihe East e-hundred-and- -fourt1-st- police as
witnesses Baruola married. and leaves TWO
children and widow.
Policeman Beiber heard shots issuing from 'ne
house and running there. saw Elvlna Pasca on
the stairs.
WHAT'S the natter" he asked. and she re-
Piled that there was nothing
I heard shots here
oh YES" said she. calmly. there's man In
that room"
FseIher went in and was astonished 10 nho 'M .
women. Mrs Pasca and Clotilda, sitting quietly
=. -o room, while in the next. stretched
,ut on the floor was Professor Baruoia'
sytn~ He had a bullet wound IN the
hack of his head. another in the size OF tne
head and 2 n I'd on the right wrist half-open
,az,r without any blood it lay across MS
breast The man died in a few minutes
reel,,er ,vhistled for help. and Policemen Was-
r7cr and Pretorius ran up. Mary Accurso elsh-
teen wears old a public school teacher' hVlIls
-, the rear ran into the rooms. and was i'm
,,,edisfel,- held in custody. while Mrs Pasca'
Clotilda and Elvina We're also put under arrest
x0ho
the house.
The cairnness Of the women astounded the po-
licen7en. They told their story without emo
ZION Mrs Pasca said that Giuseppe her hus-
band. and Baruola had had a quarrel over some
real estate business Baruola, she sa1d' hao
drawn a razor. and the son, Louis. fearing for
his fathers life, had drawn a revolver. There
was some struggling and in self-defence. the
woman said Baruola had been shot. Louis and
her husband then disappeared
f-lotilde said that Professor Baruola visited
the house every night to give her lessons in
English She confessed the police say, that she
and the man had been intimate. and she de-
clared he had promised TO marry her She said
she had told her father about her relations with
Rar1lola The police found bullet hole in
heavy red portierre in the room next to tnat IN
which the man had been shot. This bullet hole
had powder marks round it on the side opposite
10 that on which the man had been shot.
The police think the man was lured to the
house to be murdered by the angry father. VINO
was stirred they think by his daughters al
le.oed confession They think one of the men
hid behind the portierres and that the other
fired the first shot at Baruola. who threw up
his arm and was shot in the wrist linen. Win
,,fe t,acl, 10 the Dortierre he was shot in the
hack of the head Turning again, he was snot
in The head by the man who fired the hrst shot-
They believe the razor was tnen put on ms