The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-07-11
Shooting of Two italians at Mil
Waukee Fails to Find a SoIu.
ton From the Officers
BOTH MEN FRoa KEEosHA
Kenosha ItaIiars Identity Dead Man
and Man in Hospital as Former
Residents of This City,
Third Man Sought

O1 milwaukee, ana AGnOSna VINO are
investigating the murder of Vinceuz
Ferrari and the wounding of Dominic
Moracad, both Kenosha men, on the
right of way of the College avenue
line near the Milwaukee Country club
on July 4th, had made no progress III
solving the.mystery that surrounds the
shooting. While the entire detective
force of Milwaukee is at work on the
case the officials have been able to
learn little of the identity of the men
participating in the affair nor the
motive back of the murder. Dete ctiveS
have worked along various theories
but none of them has led to auy
definite conclusions. Everybody con-
nected with the affair, or suspected
of knowing something about it, is
withholding information from the
police. Like all Italian affairs of
this kind, the men from sunny Italy
believe in settling their own affairs in
their own way and most of them re-
sent police interference. Even the
wounded man, who, the police are
confident, knows all about the shoot.
ing, refuses to aid The police in try
ing to find the men who tried to MUIR
der him.
1t has been established that both
Ferrari and Moracad at one time lived
ia Kenosha, but even in this the
police lack definite information
Mora cad has lived in Milwaukee for
at least four months and up to a re-
cent date was employed as molder
in the south plant of the Al1is-Cha1-
mers company. 1t is believed he came
from Kenosha before he arrived there.
Ferrari last lived in Kenosha. That
much was established last night
by the police. Detective McCrory
spent Friday in this city and learned
that Ferrari had lived here but had
recently been out of work and had
no money. Early in the week he
went to Chicago, but he must have
returned and gone to Milwaukee to
spend the Fourth. The police be-
lieve that Moracad knows how Fer
rari went to Milwaukee, but the
wounded man maintains that he never
saw Ferrari before and did not know
the dead man lay only a few feet from
him when he was picked up Thurs
day night IN wounded condition.
Detective McCrory who came to
Kenosha learned that Ferrari had no
money and SO the theory of robbery
was abandoned. The police also be-
lieve that Moracad might have been
selected to bring Ferrari to the place
and that in the hurry to assassiuate
fact that the wounded man carried a
revolver, stiletto, and a razor on his
person shows that he may have pre-
pared himself for trouble.
The police are convinced of one
thing, and that the killing was pre-
meditated and carefully planned.
They are also convinced that the
wounded man could tell much to
clear up the mystery if he would, but
they have given up hope of getting
any information out of him. Mora.
cad was taken from ST. Mary's hos
pital to the police station yesterday
afternoon. He was questioned by
Chief Jansen and Inspector Riemer
of Milwaukee. He told the police
that he had started out Sunday night
to take a walk. Later he boarded
a car and rode out to Lake park.
He kept on walking, he said, when
suddenly he was assaulted by a gang
of men and shot down. He saws il
was dark and he does not know who
assaulted him. He declares he did
not know that Ferrari also had been
shot down and was not aware that
Ferrarl's body lay on the car track
where 1t was found by the car crew
which had run over it. The police
questioned him, where he came from,
but beyond saying that he worked in
West Allis he would give little In.
formation. The police, however, have
been told that Moracad once told an
other Italian that he came from Mis-
souri,. When Detective McCrorY
brought two Italians from Kenoska
last night they looked Moracad over
ddO III TIC udu DIT one TIME lived
in Kenosha, but the wounded man
denied this
1t is now thought that Frank Ruff.
falo, another Kenosha Italian, at
tended the two men to Milwaukee and
John Ruffalo, brother, and Joseph
Conley went to Milwaukee last night
to see if they could find RuffaIo.
Conley visited Moracad at the hospi.
tai last night and told the police that
he had known him in Kenosha. How.
ever Conley could not identify the
murdered man as any one who had
lived in this city. The police of Mil
waukee declare that there was third
man in the party and he is missing
It is thought possible that this might
have been Ruffalo. The murder has
all the ear marks of an Italian tragedy
and it is possible that the murder OF
Ferrari is connected with the coz