The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-11
SIX EIHHAN MURDER ARRESTS
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They said They had f%rrrivrd information
which would In all probability rhnhlr them
~ locate definitely Richard kinnan, Tho
husland ~ the murdered .%No'uan, Within q
day Or kinnan has hreh living nt"rt
from hla wife for about ten years and Tho
Iulicr want w gct from him among other
things the STORY ~ their marital ttn'lh'ea
rhree ~ tho four ~I,slians who wrr" az
amined before tho CORONER were held IN
StUO hail M witnnasrs The other two we're
! arrested too late to appear lrtorr the 'nro-
ner and were locked up
Tho Italians we're gathered In on NORMA
ton furnished TO the police Ivy Carlo Marine.
20 wears old. who lives ~ sBl Fast isTh
street. Marine wc1Ato the fremont avenue
police station ab6Mtss o doN "SeoNe
night and asked the police II they would
accept his hail for an Italian who had been
locked up for n minor offence. The SER
qeant refused. and Marine said they had
better think II over IA he was In n position
to give them some information for which
they were seeking
A few questions brought ont the fact that
the murder on the veranda Of the old stem
ton house was the subject on which Marine
thought he could enlighten the police,
Capt. Braunan and his detectives took the
Italian in hand and Marine told them this
story:
A party Of seven or eight Italians were In
a saloon at Pelham AM Arthur avenues
about o o'clock on Friday night. Marine
was among them. One girl was in the party
She was a tall blonde Of German extraction.
She appeared to be with an Italian named
Dominica. but Marine took a fancy to her
and she went over to him. That angered
Dominica.
Shortly after 0 O'Clock the seven or eight
Italians left the saloon. They went down
Pelham avenue to Hoffman street, and
through Hoffman and is9th streets into
Washington avenue. the street on which
the Stenton house is located.
Shortly before the italians and the girl
got into Washington avenue there had been
trouble between Dominica and Marine.
Dominica had pulled a piece of gas pipe
from under his coat and threatened to hit
Marine over the head with it. Marine
had pulled out his revolver and threatened
to shoot, but at the same time, according to
the story which Marine told the police on
Saturday night, he had advised the girl to
hurry away
The girl, Msrino said, went on down
Washington avenue, and Dotnlnico FOL
lowed her. Then the girl ran across the
avenue into the bushes in the Stenton yard,
with Dominica after her. Marine told the
police that II e saw Dominica run up the
front steps of the Stenton house and ring
the doorbell, evidently thinking the girl
had taken refuge there.
That. according to Marino's Saturday
night story, was the last he saw Of Dominica
or the girl. Capt, Brennan hustled his
men out, and before daylight they had
rounded up these men:
Theodore Skale, 10 years old, of Pip
Second avenue; Thomas Farina, 20, OF 24s2
Hoffman street, and Dominica Campolo.
"a, a Waterman in a building at ls2d street
and Arthur venue Marine also was
arrested.
The prisoners were arraigned in the
Morrisania police court and remanded to the
in Coroner McDonald's office by the Coroner,
Detective Sergeant Sam Price and Capt.
Brennan of the m station.
Marine in the examination went back on
most of the important things he had told
the police on Saturday night. He denied
that he had seen Dominica run after the
girl into the Stenton yard or that he had
seen the Italian ring the doorbell Of the
Stenton house, He said an Italian in the
party named John Kelly had told him that
Dominica had one that. He denied also
that Dominica Campolo, the prisoner, was
the man with whom he had trouble.
Campolo, on the other hand, asserted that
he was the man with whom Marine had
quarrelled on account of the girl, but he
avenue or anywhere near the Stenton
grounds. He said that the girl had gone
with him and Skala to a chop suey restau-
rant at l25th street and Third avenue.
Skala corroborated Dominico's story, and
also said that Campolo was the man with
whom Marine had had trouble.
Marine had identified the piece Of gas
pipe which the police found on the veranda
near the spot where the crime was COM
mitted as the one which Dominica had in
he wasn't so sure that it was the same piece.
One of the other Italians admitted that
Dominica had a piece of pipe in his hand.
but he wouldn't. say that it was the
piece which the police found on the veranda.
Skala and Campolo were sent to the House
of Detention, but Marine was bailed out.
About 8 O'Clock last night the police ar
rested the John Kelly referred to by
Marine. His real name is Frank Decico.
He couldn't speak English, and the police
weren't ablet to inc out from him whether
he did tell Marine that he saw an Italian
chase the girl into the Stenton yard and
ring the doOrbell Of the house.
The police do not believe t at recico
saw a y such thing. They say that it
would have been impossible for a man
standing in Washingto avenue to zee
what was going or on the veranda of the
house last Friday night. Besides, Coroner
Mcdonald doubts sariousl whether it
would have been possible for a man to in
hict such wounds as we're found on Mrs.
Kinnan's head with the blunt piece Of gas
pipe pickle up on the veranda. armio
Bario, another Italian in the Friday night
party, was arrested at the same time as
Decico. They we're locked up.
The details learned by the police yester-
day at the Stenton house only threw them
into a greater quandary. They learned
that Mrs. Marie Shippo, the Italian woman
who lives in the basement of the house. was
sitting at an open window directly beneath
the spot where Mrs. Kinnan was found.
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