Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-06
II MURDERED.
DAYS RECORD
WAVE OF CRIME SWEEPS OVER
THE COUNTRY
STRANGE MANIA TO sLAY SEXES
MANY PERSONS
FOUR Dead, One Fatally Wounded in
Chicago-New York Continues
Terrorized by Attacks on
Women and Children

A veritable wave of crime swept over
the country yesterday, extending from
San Francisco to New York. Eleven
killed, three fatally wounded and sew
eral arrests made is the days terrible
record,
In New York the attacks on women
and children and the consequent riots
continue.
Chicago reports four atrOciOus mur-
ders and another attempted murder, the
victim of which will die.
In Dayton, Ohio, a young woman was
killed and her escort mOrtnlIy wounded.
A woman, presumably insane, stran-
gled her two babies to death in Balti-
more.
A man was brutally murdered in
Kearney, Neb.
In San Francisco man was killed
and his woman companion fatally
sIashed.
man named Coleman hanged him-
self in Phoenix, A. T.
A man kills an old time friend near
Pittsburg and narrowly escapes lynch
ing by mob.
BY Associated less.
NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-One of the most
brutal crimes against women and children
was today charged against Luzza Fon-
tata, who was locked up at New Brighton
station on a charge of assaulting An
toinetta Talucca, the S-year-old daughter
of Antonio Talucca of New Brighton.
Fontata and Talucca are laborers en-
ployed at the King plaster mills in New
Brighton, and Fontata boarded with the
Talucca family. Fontata was left with
the little child this afternoon while Mrs.
Talucca went shopping. The mother had
not gone far from the house when the
child's screams brought her back. When
he saw Mrs. Talucca, Fontata rushed
from the house, Mrs. Talucca following
him. Her cries brought out the neighbors,
and soon a mob was following the fleeing
Italian down the street. The pursuers
soon overlook the man and he was
knocked to the ground, where he was
severely beaten and kicked by men and
women until a policeman appeared and
with club and revolver fought off the
crowd.
The child, on orders of a magistrate.
was examined by physician, who re-
ported that she was seriously injured.
Fontata was held in $1,000 bail on charge
of criminal assault.
Another Child Attacked
Angeline Condarti, 6-year- child.
was found terribly bruised in a thicket
near the village of Lincolnville, Staten
island, this afternoon. She had been at
tackled by an unknown man.
Jolly Ambatro, an Italian laborer, was
arrested in Brooklyn this afternoon on
charge of attempted assault on two little
girls. Daniel Lalo and Frank Peabody
were arraigned on similar charges
Deputy Police Commissioner O'Keefe,
who is in charge of the police department
during the absence Of Commissioner Bing-
ham, today asked the board of estimates
and appropriations for funds to employ
600 additional policemen.
The request will be acted upon Wednes-
day.
Most of the crimes are committed in
little frequented places. Mothers through
out the city are terror stricken, and in
cidents which under ordinary circum-
stances would be passed over without
second thought are magnified and re-
ported as crimes which have little founda-
ton in fact.
Many of the police officials believe there
is not an unusual number of assaults, but
that the several murders within the last
few weeks and the hysterical condition
of the people, particularly in the tene-
ment district, have caused reports to the
police of which under ordinary circum-
stances they would never hear.