Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-19
Nine Violent Deaths Sun
day in New York City
beside Long yust. Of Minor Ac-
cldents and Shooting Mhays.
One Murder, Three Suicides Al Fin
Deaths BY Accidental Means.

New York, Feb. 1S.-Nine violent
! deaths with a long chapter Of minor
| accidents and shooting ARRAYS, some Of
| which may result fatally, constituted
! the unusual Sunday report submitted
| to headquarters today by the police OF
| New York and Brooklyn. A street MUIR
| der in the Italian quarter heads the
! list. There were three cases of suicide
all in Manhuttan: one man was ground
| to death beneath the wheels Of an ex-
press train in the subway, the dismem-
bcrcd parts of his body being strewn
along the tracks for several blocks
south Of the A3tor Place station;
woman vas burned TO death I'm her
Greenwich street home; another
woman MIS- accidentally killed by in
l;aliiI; gas in D West street hotel while
The IuIu who had accompanied her to
the place was found in a critical condi-
ton; II man was killed by escaping gas
il Brooklyn ana tho body Of a young
an w;;y found in Il canal In South
Ercoliyn.
Ih:'" women overcome by gas In q
tenement IN Wet AID street were TAX
en- IL :, hospital and viii recover: two
soldiers, enc Il sergeant and the other
a corporal Of artillery from Fort Tot
ten. We're overcome in the Second Ave-
Tue Hotel. where they slept last night
and are in a critical condition at a hos
pitui.
brooklyn added two more cases Of
gas POISONING. neither Of which Is ex-
pected to result fatally. i..
The murdered man was Michael
Giarccilo. who was attacked with a
stictto. the police declare. by Fincenzo
NintiniGilio. who had long been his
friend. Tho assailant escaped. The men
lad been drinking and quarrcled.
The man killed in the subway was
Antonio Rossi. "a years old, q track
walker. He was not missed until to-
night when search for him was in
stitutcd anl parts Of his. body were
found along the express train track.
Killed evidently by the first train
which had struck him.. Rossi's body
had been dismembered by score or
more of heavy expresses, When men
carrying part sof the body arrived at
the 14th street station. there was some
thing of a panic on the crowded plat
form and several women tainted. A
report quickly spread that a serious
accident had occurred and several
hundred people poured into the sub
way. Police reserves had to be called
from two stations before the place
could be cleared.
One of the suicides was Jeanneatte
Caplin. a pretty Russian girl, 90, yearx
OF age, who had been taking course
as trained nurse at Beth Israel hos
pital. She had been Respondent for
some time. Today she was found
dead i'll her room. n note left behind
telling the story OF her tragic end.
Some powerful drug had been used,
the nature of which the doctors have
been unable to determine.
Bernard Parkerny. a Bohemian bak-
cr hanged himself at his home in East
goth street. and John Hickey, a laborer,
living in the Bronx, drank acid.
In addition to the above cases the
police report that a woman dying in
an uptown hospital from the effects
OF kick in the abdomen. has accused
a l6-ycar-old boy. VINO attacked her.
she says, when she rcnopstratcd with
him for fighting with her son. The
boy is under arrest