The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-05
ASSASSIN IN ROSY'S ALLEY.
FOLLOWED GINLIANO HOME AND
THEN KILLED HIM.

M0NNu " uhA Ah ~
- Him In the Presence or Ills VIE while
N He Was Undressing for Ised -E'olIcc
came Quickly. but found No Muruerer.
Salvatore GiuIiano, hyrrying to his homo
IN Rosy's alley from his cafe in Chrystie
street yesterday morning, was happy as
he turned the corner Of the Bowery and
First street. Luck had turned for Saliva
tore. He clinked the. silver coins In his
pocket and laughed as a policeman clutch
ing at his cap. vent by him i'll humoredly,
breastng the wind.
There was late mcrrymaking in the dingy
old five story tenement where Rosy Gun
taer once kept a boarding house at 10 First
street. Salvatore heard the clinking OF
glasses, a snatch or two Of sons and a merry
laugh. He sans himself as he turned into
the alley and opened the door Of his nat,
90 the ground floor. He had good news
for CaTmela and the bdmbini. A woman
who happened 10 put her head out Of a
window on the third foor wondered Why
Salvatore sang. but wondered most OF all
who it was that followed Salvatore into the
alley keeping close against the wall. How
ever, il was none Of her business and the
wind was cold. She pulled down the win
dow and went back TO her own affairs.
Five Minutes later there was u roar in
the courtyard, 1t was heard above the
racket OF the gale and an inst ant later 1t
was followed bv q woman's scream. "Assas-
sini, assassinil' Windows few open and
heads popped out. A few thought they saw
man running out " Rosy's alley clutching
q broad brimmed hat, but they weren't
sure. Evidently it was a bad business
and good to keep out Of, The police would
come and make trouble as was their custom.
A few went down into the courtyard
from curiosity or sympathy. They ran
Into a narrow blind alley leading past the
Giuliano fiat and peered through a broken
window pane. They saw the body OF
Salvatore Giuliano on the floor Just under
meath a torn, stained picture Of the Holy
Family. CRrmela, his wife, was kneeling
over him trying to stop the blood that was
flowing from a wound in his breast. The
baby, G~iuseppina, was lying by her fathers
body and trying TO put her pink toes in
her mouth, and the other children, Francesca
n Vittorio, were standing by their mother,
round eyed and scared. The women who
saw this through the window crossed them
selves and went in to help Carmela. The
men shouted for the police and ran into
First street.
Policeman Hammer of the Fifth street
station, who had passed Salvatore only a
few minutes before. had heard a shot from
Second avenue and Third street. 1t puzzled
him. The wind muffled il, and besides il
didn't sound like the crack OF a pistol, more
like a small blast set OF. Hammer hesitated
q few minutes and h set about to in
vestigate. A few minutes afterward he
heard the shouts from Rosy's alley and ran
there. Policemen Grady and MCGOWAN
joined him in First street, running from
their posts, and the three stopped four
Italians, n Of them u woman who was
crying. all on their way to Rosy's alley.
The woman was Carmela. who had sent
TO her husbands saloon at l73 Chrystie
street TO get SalvatOre's brother, Fran
oesco, and his friends, Giuseppe Lima and
Antonio Lioatta. She had run out to meet
them when the policeman got into the
street.
The alley was crowded in the next half
hour. A dozen policemen were there
searching for the assassin and irving to get
a clear story from the frightened ,hysterical
Carmela and the people Of the tenement.
their holes, keenly alive to the delights
OF a murder, cluttered UP the courtyard and
were knocked out of the way by the police
men. Muller Of the Fifth street station
foand the weapon in the blind alley. just
under the window the assassin had fired
through. 1t was a cheap shotgun, rusty
and Clipped about the stock. 1t had been
loaded with buokshot.
The police did little then but take charge
OF the body and hold Francesca, Lima and
Licatta as witnesses. Later in the morn
ing Dit was about / 80 o'clock when Salvatore
was killed) Detective Botti OF Petrosino's
stan took charge of the case.
Carmela said. that Salvatore told her.
as soon as he entered his home, that he
had been able to raise money enough to
keep his business going, and that there
wouh be no fear Of losing the cafe. He
kissed her and played with the babies
awhile, she said, and then started TO un-
dress for bed. Partly facing a window on
the narrow blind alley he started to take
on q shoe, when he heard a noise at the
window. They both looked up and saw
the barrel OF a gun sticking in under the
sash. The assassin fired at once, the load
OF shot striking Salvatore in the breast
and going clear through his body. The
range vas short, only about ten feet.
She did not know that Salvatore had an
enemy she said, but whoever it was killed
him would be killed by her and his brother
Francesca. That might be depended on.
torres body. she said, and they would keep
their oath. ''Bottiewas puzzled. He could
get nothing definite from Carmela and
decided that perhhps Salvatore was muir
dered by some one who had held a grudge
against him for a long time, perhaps even
in Sicily, from whence Salvatore came
five years ago.
The assassin had followed Salvatore
home, Botti decided, although, when the
street was empty and it was 80 easy to get
away without noise, II seemed curious that
he hadn't knitted Salvatore between the
shoulders. Also It was curious that the
murderer used a shotgun.
The police made no arrests yesterday,
bus Botti said he thought that somebody
would be arrested to-day who could tell
a good deal about who murdered Salvatore,