The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-12-05
GOADBD TO MURDER
rr,,,s es1sn AND WOUNDS HER
swEETaEaRr.
s,ave, Mobbsd and Beaten by Eel
low. Workers Before the arrival
of the Police.

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murder 6one in the grimy sweatshop
Of Heller s. Co.. st 81 Spring stress.
Antoinetta Nac.ooi, 8 pretty nine
teen. year-old Italian girl, who was to
have been 8 bride in two weeks
time, was shct through the hsad and
the left breast snd died instsntly.
The young man whom she was TO
hsvs nsrried. Vincerzo Loycra, wss
shot, too, but his wounds a-s nos
ssricus. Hs Is nog in ST. Vincent's
hospital.
The man who is charged With the
shooting is Giuseppe Ftgi!s. Es is .
little ~izened-up bit Of man, and an
expert tailor. Isis ssld thss it was
the jealousy which the little tsilor
aroused in Antoileesa Nsciooi ana
ner sweetheart, who, though 5ney
had worked in the sweaESAop more
thsn TWO years, could net equal the
ev.coner's work thai leo 70 uns
fatal shooting. The girl, her tsu2w-
employees say, hsd tainted s!sAs
With bis puniness until ne heo bean
gosrdsd beyond endurance.
When F.glia had bsen o1safmeo,
sitter dlschsrg!ug the bullets, which
tiiled Nae bride. TO be snd wounded
he- hstroshed, the swestshop work
eys pouuced upon the mscauderer SOD
almost tore bin to pieces bsfofs TIE
nolfce srrived. It was necessary to
call cat the reserves to get Figlia to
the Mulberry street station In safety.
He REQUIRED the attention Of sur
eecn before be was looked Up. he
was badly cut snd bruised.
The shooting occurred % noon
Thursday. Figiis, scsording to the
stories thai the sweatshop workers,
had CONS to the sink to wssh h:s
hsnds before eating his frugal lunch.
As he was standing there, securing
the CRIME from bis stuboy fingers,
Ansoinstts approached.
AS soon IS SIZE came within speak
ing distance, the girl, it is said, ad.
dressed to the little nan some insult
Ing rsrark. Then, it is charged,
she spat In his face.
The red color .ushad over Fig1hs's
svartby fesures a5 the insuls which
the girl had cfsred nina. The ewo
were standing within three feet OF
each ether. F!glia pullsd q revolver
from his hip POCKET. He 1red TWICE.
The first shot penetrated the girlS
left cheek and ranged upward. The
second entered her left bcesst and
pierced the heart. Wtthous . CRY the
girl fell to the foor.
Lsvors, her sweetheart had Wit.
messed sIl shat happened. Hs rushso
upon Figlia, paying 20 heso to the
reyolver's sucking barrel. The tail
or fred twice more.
One shot broke Lavora's tsW and
he other LOGGED in the 6eshy psTt OF
his right shoulder. Bus the wouncs
failed to STOP the rush. With blood
streaming ( ON his shoulder and iacs
he grsppplsd with his swseshesrt
murderer and the two 1ollee abous TO-
sethe, locked in zach others aims.
As soon as the revolver had besn
wrested from him, the other workers
took courage enough too attack him.
They came upon him in body. They
struck him with their fists and kick
ed him as he wrished On the floor
trying in vain to shield his body
tom the b!sws thst were being rainec
upon 1t. One OF the workers picked
up Fqgua's revolver, and had it level.
ed In the p1ostrsue mans direction.
when policeman FulVey appeared.
Eulvey had tins to grab his arm and
seize the revolver before he had g
chance to fro.
Decteotivs MCLAUGHLIN joined
Eulvey. They had to draw theil
e!ubs to drive chs infurtatsd
Italians back from their prisoner
Mclaughlin sent in csl tor the
reserves, and not until they arrived
was it deemed safe to take Figlia
through the streets to the Mulberry
street police station.
Yincsnzo Lsvors was removed to
st. Vincent's hospital.