The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-08
ITALIAN GIRL ROlLS POLICE,
MURDER or GRASSO A TANGLED
TALE OF JEALOUSY.

He Expected an Attack by Discarded
Lover OF Msrgheretta CarnOvAle Dead
You'll was . LothariO Of rOmpkins
square Cops After . brooklyn Sport.
M~argheretta ~Carnovale, a wisp OF a girl
with a slender, dark face and big black
eye that regarded the police inquisitors
calmly, baffled half = dozen plain clothes
men yesterday morning at the Union Market
police station. She war the sweetheart Of
Giuseppe Grasso, the young Italian who
was shot to death on Thursday night at
Third and Goerok streets, and the detectives
were trying to get from the girl some sort
Of description Of the men that shot her lover.
Margheretta had been in a cell all night.
She had been taeen into custody soon after
Grasso's body was found because the police
had no difficulty in learning from the To-
Quacious loafers Of Tompkins Square Park
who had been spooning on a bench with
young Grasso, and who had accompanied
him to the pier at the foot Of East Third
street when the Street Cleaning Department
soows made a fine fire to amuse the neigh
borhood. They arrested Margheretta at her
home, ass East Twelfth street, and took her
to the Union Market station house with
Maria Romano, her friend, who lives in
the same house and who walked to the fire
with Margharetta and her lover.
All night IN q grimy cell hadn't improved
AargherettR's appearance, but il hadn't
broken her nerve. Her white muslin dress
was stained and she hadn't been able to
do much with her thick black hair, but
she faced the cop with self-possession and
. smile that made the plain clothes men
sore-they knew the symptoms.
She denied that she had been with Grasso
In Tompkdns Square Park. She said with
q smile and the most Innocent eyes imagin-
able that she didn't know her lover was
shot until a policeman went to her house
and arrested her. How could she give a
description Of the man that killed Grasso2
That was too funny, because she was at
home, maybe making bread, maybe taking
care of her baby sister, how could she tell,
she was 90 hard working a girl and had 80
many things to do.
The police gave Margheretta up. They
could make nothing Of her. Later on, when
che was taken before Coroner Shrady at the
Criminal Courts Building, and the Coroner
asked her question after question, Mar
gheretta smiled prettfly and gave the same
irritating answers.
you would help US very much, Mar
gheretta,' said the Coroner, IF you would
tell US the truth, and try to remember what
the men looked like who jumped out at you
aud Grasso and your friend Maria and fred
at Grasso.'
M~argheretta looked at the Coroner with
her big. black eyes, laid her hand on her
heart n declared positively that she knew
nothing.
Il give my word. signor,' said she, Il am
an innocent girl. l want a brush for my
hair and q red ribbon for my waist. I feel
ashamed before this crowd.'
Coroner Shrady rave 1t up, too, and sent
Margheretta N her friend Maria to the
House Of Detention to await results from
the sleuths OF the Union Market station
house.
Giuseppe Grasso died OF his wounds early
yesterday morning In Bellevue Hospit al.
A bullet In the back that pierced the lungs
killed the young man. he had another
bullet in his right leg.
The detectives found out enough yester-
day to make 1t pretty certain that Grasso
had several enemies who were readyt to do
him with a u or a blackjack. whichever
happened to be the quickest and safest.
Grasso worked in q cafe at Second avenue
and Thirty-dfth street. He exhibited a
blackjack one day, and the bartender, an
inQuisitive person. asked the Italian why he
carried the weapon. Grasso told him
that he had out out a young Italian in the
contest for Margheretta's affections and
that his rival had threatened to kill him.
4 Getta da dog" said Giuseppe. -or he
maka da finish 10 me-; da skiddoo for da
n OF US sure so the bartender quotes
him..
The police found out that Grasso was a
staggering beau around the Italian section
Of Tompkns Square Park. chat he was the
hero Of many conquests Inc hat he was
one OF the best hated young sparks Of the
district; He had several more sweethearts
than Margberetta. the detectives learned,
and In that fact they believe lies the ex-
PLANTATION OF the murder.
They found out that Grasso met the two
girls in Tompkins Square Park early Thurs
day evening. sat on a bench with them an
hour or 20 and then accompanied them
TO the foot Of East Third street, where three
scows OF the Street Cleaning Department
we're on fire. On the way back. when the
trio reached Third and Goerck streets,
two men jumped out OF the shadows, each
brandishing a revolver.
Some words passed in Italian between
Grasso and the two, and then Grasso and
the girls started to run. One Of the mon
fired twice at the fleeing Giuseppe and both
bullets struck him. He dropped and never
regained consciousness. The girls ran on
home and tried TO lie low, but the police
got them.
Two detectives OF the Union Market
station house arrested Loui Gluck OF POI
East Seventh street on suspicion yester-
day, holding him as a witness. He was
committed to the House Of Detention with
the two girls. Late in the afternoon Can't.
Cooney sent his detectives out TO look for
a young Italian sport known as Tony
Bones Frank Felice, a young man who
lives in East Twelfth street near the home
Of M~argharetta Carnovale, volunteered in
formation TO Capt. Cooney that IN the East
Third street pier he had heard Tony Bones
Thursday night threaten TO kill Giuseppe.
Tony Bones lives In Brooklyn, the detec-
tives were told, and they went TO thai
borough to try TO apprehend him.