New-York tribune., 1906-06-12
FOUR DIE In FLAMES
ARRESTS FOR HOMICIDE.
Police Suspect InccHdiaris,a ,a-Tsco
Fircmen Injured.

woman and her three yoUhS c1id''n We're
burned To leath in ire which s,1rtel on the
ground aoor os the old five story tenement
house. No 80 East 9Tth street, yc <,es'!ay az
ternoo1 The victims were Rei'"-' .''-h'Ao-
witz. thirsy-three years old: F1r'lii-I.l seven
months: Lea Eve years. and Fannie e-e..J years
old. Two fre:aen were BADLY D'urd we1e
fighting the flames. There Were raly t3s.i-.1s
rescues
Detectives Weldon and Goss yosl le~t,aF evening
arrested in front of the burned build ns Louisa
Palladino. seventeen years old. ar sasquale
Palad.no. nlnsleen years old, her !;-.he~. They
We're taken TO the East 1O4th street police sta
ton and locked up on a charge of attempted
homicide
The prisoners Fad not been in The pole STA
ton more than an hour when Angelo =; Pala-
dino who gave his business as taai of real
estate dealer with Offices at No 1G1'. East
1G5th street, came in to inquire about the ar
rests. He said he was the father Of Louise
and Pasquale and that, with them. he occupied
the fiat in which the fire started
Captain Gallagher in charge of the police
station. questioned Palladino, and then ordered
him locked up with his son and daughter on the
same charge. technical homicide. About 500
o'clock Coroner Hamburger arrived at the station
house and the three prisoners were put through
the third degree.
Captain Gallagher is authority for the state
ment that the three made conflicting statements.
The fire was discovered about 3:43 o'clock by
a pedestrian who turned in an alarm Patrol
men Enright and Healy ran TO the scene and
were joined by PatroImen Kennedy and Baum
bach The tenants of the front flats were theh
crowded on the fre-escapes, overwhelmed WIN
smoke gushing out of the windows behind theiii'
Followed by Frank Larock and Joseph FORE
lone both of. No 2OS East 9th street the po-
Hcemen gained an entrance to the mousse oS 'ne
second floor f1re-escape of the adjoining mousse
While Enright and Healy passed tenants down
the front fire escapes Kennedy and Baumoach
fought their way through the smoke and reached
the fire escapes in the rear Ihere they Iouhd
the IoVrer ladder to the yard gone and the plat
forms crowded Kennedy jumped TO the yaro
and caught the TENANTS as they We're dropped by
his partner.
AS the last were guided down by the police
mon a woman with q child whose clothes were
abIaze anpeared at third story window. which
had no fire escape.
She caught sight of a woman on the platform
of a fire escape on the floor below. and before
she could he dissuaded threw the child doWh- II
struck the fire escape and fell TO the bottom OF
the we'll on heap of blazing cinders BEFORE
II could be rescued it had been burned 10 crIsp'
Meanwhile. Frank Larock and Joseph 70
reinne volunteers. had entered the house from
tho roof of No 2O7 and penetrated to the sec
ond floor. There Foreinne found eolored "oHi-
an with two children screaming for help AFTER
Guiding her 10 the roof. and down the nre es-
cane of No. 2O7 he returned TO the burning
mouse. This time he got only as far as the third
floor where he was overcome 10y smoke and hao
10 be hauled out by Policeman Kennedy
Iarock found Josiah Manning. Negro VINO
lived on the first floor with his wife and TWO
children. trying TO make his way 10 the rooL
and guided him TO safety. picking up, on the
wav Mrs Nicola Alisie, tenant on the Seo
ond floor. with her two children
Meanwhile another volunteer, Charles Nc
C.trri,v of No 16T East 1O1st street had made
bis wav INTO the building from the roof He
ooughr q woman standing by a window on the