The Washington herald., 1907-11-04

trolley car marked Main" and ride
through the city and across the Passaic
River and the railroad tracks. you will
find yourself climbing a fairly steep hill
into that section of the village of Gar
feld known as BOgart Heights. This is
about two miles from the Passaic sta
ton. and is the settlement OF around .2oO
Italians. Just as you reach the top Of
the hill you will see q neat brick building
on your left Brick buildings are not
common in Bogart Heights, so you can't
miss it. The first half of the building
which you come TO is of cream brick. and
bears two signs. "Grosseris Italiana" and
'Rossano Raffaele."
This is where Raffaele Rossano.
young Italian, not long in the country.
has been running a grocery store for the
past month, and where, with his pretty
young wife. Antoinette, he had been ~
ing in the two rooms just back Of the
grocery. And it was just in front of the
stone step Of the grocery store that An
toinettes body was found Saturday
night, while her husbands body leaned
against the wall in the living room. and
little Toto their eighteen-months'- old
son, ran from one silent figure TO the
ether, frightened and crying.
Ranked nS wealthy.
Raffaele was about thirty-two years
old; his wife was somewhat younger. A
month ago they moved their little gro
cery from $40 East lO5th street. Manha1-
tan. to Bogart Heights. They were hap
py and prosperous. and among their com
patriots they were accounted wealthy
Antoinette had many fine dresses. which
She had brought with her from the old
country. There was one Of very rich
red silk which made her the envy Of the
colony when she wore It.
Antoinette was always singing. She
was singing only Saturday afternoon. as
she romped in the yard behind the
grocery, with little Toto in her arms
To be sure. her mind was not entirely
care free. She was always on the alert
10 guard herself and little Toto against
she never told the .neighbors just what
it was she feared. but she always car
ried a - revolver with her Saturday
afternoon the revolver was in he. apron
pocket. and it bumped against her knees
as she ran and played with Toto. The
baby crOwed with JOY when his mother
ran with him.
Henry Burgmeyer. a painter lives III
stairs over the grocery. Theodore Francis
Van der Teens, a lab0rer and d boarder
with Burgmeyer, stumbled over Antoi-
nette's body as he came home. just before
midnight Saturday night Van der Teens
did not look at the body. He walked
around it and told Burgmeyer. and the
latter put on his coat and walked around
the body and notified Marshal lie Bon
nema. Bonnema got Marshal John Matt
land, and. after sending word to John
Force, chairman of the police committee.
which corresponds TO the chief OF police in
other places. the marshals went UP to the
grocery. The woman was lying on her
back, big bullet hole in her left temple.
Her body was quite cold. 1t had rained
hard and her clothing was very wet.
Slain in the Store.
The door OF the store was open. Just in
side the door stood cracker barrel. a
pool of blood on the floor beside it, and A
heavy clasp knife, opened lay in the pool
of blood. The floor was swept clean by
the woman's clothing, where she had
dragged herself or had been dragged from
the pool of blood to the stone step. Al
the entrance to the living room was an.
other pool of blood. and in this was the
silk neckerchief the woman had worn.
A fair-haired. dark-eyed baby in a pink
dress toddled out of the living room, cry
ing Papa" and toward the door beyond
which AntOinette lay. Marshal John Matt.
land picked up the child and took hin
next door, where Ignacio Donna lives il
the other half of the building Iguacio'.
wife. Marie. took the child in her arms
and the marshal went back to the gro
Gerry.
In the living room they found Rossano's
body, with a bullet hole in the left tenn
pie. His wound like that of his wife
had been caused by a IS caliber bullet
fired at close range. Rossano's face wa:
powder-burned. A closed stiletto. which
had not been recently used. lay on tn,
table. There was no money in the gro
GERS pockets. the till was open anC
stripped clean, half-dozen purses OF
various sizes lay about the floor, oper
and empty.
When the marshals moved Rossano':
leg a little they uncovered a ten-dollai
bill lying on the floor where somebody
had dropped ii.
The people upstairs were questioned.
Yes. we heard one shot-onIy one
and we did not think anything Of il
Should one run outdoors every time ht
hears a shot. he would be running out
doors very often at night
Heard No shots Fired.
The Italian family next door was cues.
toned. shots? No: we hear nothing
The wind blow vera hard-it rattle the
house-we hear nothing"
And little Toto can only say: Papa
and Mamma" and Toto"
Coroner Collins. Of Rutherford, ordered
the bodies removed to his morgue-he
is an undertaken as well as coroner. To.
day Prosecutor Ernest Kqester and Louis
Bouncore, interpreter of Bergen County
Court. and the marshals and some prose
cutor's detectives went over the little
grocery and the rooms behind it, and