The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-13
AN ITALIAN MURDER.
MAN STABBED TO DEATH ON
 UNION STREET.

No Witnesses Have Yet Been Found
 No Ante-Mortem Statement Taken
 Because Hospital Failed to Notify
 Authorities Until Too Late-Thought
 at First That stab in Breast Was Not
 angerous-Murderer Still at Large.
 A mysterious murder occurred on Union street near Chapel street, and between Court street last night when a man named Antonio Longobardi, a carpenter living at 1O4 Wallace street, was stabbed to death by a man who the police say is named Francisco santillo of 40 Walnut street.
 As yet all attempts to find anyone who saw the murder has been unavaiI- Ing. The first intimation of the affair that the police got was when boy met Officer Cannon on the street and told him that there was man stabbed on Court street. Officer Cannon sum moned Officer Cartin and they hurried to the scene.
 After Longobardi was stabbed he walked down Union street to Court street, and when he had nearly reach cd the. corner of Olive street he fell from loss of blood When the officers arrived on the scene they found a. man named MT. White trying to assist the injured man, and also two Italians, who claimed to be friends of Longobar- di and who said that they were trying to help him home. Officer Cannon summoned the ambularfce and notified Sergeant Gibson at headquarters of the affair. Detective Colwell came with the ambulance and after the injured man had been taken to Grace hospi- tai he made an investigation. No signs Of the man who did the stabbing, or the knife with which the deed had been done, could be found.
 Sergeant Gibson called up Grace hos pital on the telephone shortly after the injured man had been taken there and asked them if they did not think he had better send the coroner there. They replied that the man did not ap- pear dangerously hurt and that 1t was not necessary About 11.30 o'clock the hospital notified police headquarters that the man was much worse but he died before the coroner could get there. Therefore no statement as to how the affair happened was learned.
 As soon as 1t was learned that the man was dead a general alarm was sent out and all the detectives were summoned to headquarters. All the po- lice in the city were given d descrip- tion of the man wanted and special de- tails were sent out to watch the docks, depots and railroad yards. This is the description that the police give of the murderer. Name, Francesca Santillo, q laborer living at 40 Walnut street; twenty-eight, slim built, weight 125 inches in height slim built, weight 125 pounds; thin light mustache, dressed in black overcoat and wearing a black derby hat.
 The man who was killed was of mid de age and was carpenter by trade. He was stabbed only once in the breast with a long sharp knife and lost a great deal of blood
 About ? o'clock this morning Coroner Mix held an examination in the detec- tive headquarters and shortly after the examination commenced the Grand avenue police brought to headquarters an Italian, for whom the coroner had sent. It was stated that he was one of the Italians who was with the man at the time the police found him and who were trying to help him home. As he could not speak English an inter- preter was sent for. Tn the meantime some Of the detectives started out by order of the coroner for other witt nesses.
 The police state that just before Longobardi died he said that 1t was santillo who had stabbed him, but pros fess that he gave no reason why the eta bhiper nnnurrnd