The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-11-30
italian Section Men Murdered in
Their Beds at Winthrop Har-
Dor by Fellow Countrymen
MURDER CAREFULLY PLANNED
Men Went to the Car With Intent to
Rob the Italian Workmen and Had
Planned to Return to Italy
With the Money Secured

One of the most dastardly crimes
known in the criminal annals OF
northern Illinois and southern Wis
consin occurred at II O'Clock Friday
night near the state line when three
Italians were murdered in their beds
and two others badly, if not fatally,
wounded.
The dead
Dominick Augustine.
Joseph Aduce.
Joseph Cutri.
The injured
Joseph Ginvoria.
Unidentified man.
The two men who had been killed
by the fire of the murderer were
found lying stiff and cold in their
beds in the freight car which had
been used as lodging place for the
men wo1king on the railway near the
state line. Cutri died at the Wauke-
gan Hospital Monday morning. One
of the injured men went to the old
Lofnk house in the town of Pleasant
Prairie. He had been shot four times,
one of the shots taking effect over
the right eye while the others took
effect in the back Another of the
wounded men went to Zion City
suffering from CHASTITY wound IN his
back, just above the abdomen. It is
claimed that PHO Sensoria, Salvatore
Gravano and one other Italian COM
mitted the crime. The first two are
in jail at Waukegan.
PHO Sensorio had been formerly
employed on the section near Win
throp Harbor and had made his home
in the box car with the men who he is
now accused of numbering. Some
time ago the Italian lost his job and
he went to Chicago and remained un-
til Friday afternoon when he returned
to Winthrop. He mingled freely with
the men at work on the section and as
Friday was pay day the men were
entertaining their friends. There
was a little grog going the rounds
but none of the men became intoxi-
Gated Sensorio and his companions
were asked to remain to supper and
they sat at the table with their victims.
Later they decided to remain over
night, and as the box car had hunks
for eight, the men employed asked
them to remain. Long about nine
O'Clock the men all retired for the
night. The men who had been work
ing hard al day soon fell asleep, but
the men who had come from Chicago
waited until later IN the night to
carry out their awful revenge on the
men who had taken the place of
Sensorio on the work. Just after one
O'Clock il is alleged that Sensorio and
his companions arose and began the
awful work of killing.
Gravano Makes Confession
The awful story of the murder of
the three Italians at Winthrop Harbor
on Saturday morning, was made
public on Monday afternoon when
Salvatore Gravano one of the men
now under arrest and in jail at Wau-
kegan, made full confession of the
crime and gave out the details of the
shooting. Shielding himself as much
as possible Gravano told the story of
the crime as follows:
''We three-Pilo, Foti and myself
had been working at Be1videre,
shoveling coal up to last Wednesday
when we were discharged, and came
to Chicago. l had two grain bags
full of clothes, ETC., PHO had a trunk,
and Foti valise. We left them in
the North Western baggage room and
went to 159 Taylor street, where we
slept that night. Foti and 1 were in
the saloon at this address the next
morning, when PHO came in and
asked us to take walk with him,
saying that he wanted to tell US some
thing. Foti said after we got out:
What do you want?'
"Pi1o said: We want to go up to
Winthrop Harbor and get that
money. "Gravano claimed at this
point, that PHO told them if they
didn't go, he would shoot them"
"The next morning, Friday, PHO
went to a store on Jefferson street,
near Ewing, and bought two revol-
vers, paying $500 apiece for them.
He also bought fifty cartridges. I
was with him. Foti did not have a
new gun; he took an o1d-fashioned
six shooter that had. PHO got the
tickets, Foti and l giving him money
to pay for ours. We left all Of our
baggage at the N. W. depot, and in
tended to go back to Italy after we
did the job. We came to Waukegan
about z q clock and transferred to
train that took us to Winthrop Bar-
ho~ The reason why we trieff RI znsats