The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-02-14
Remains ofFeIicia Capable Found
Frozen in the Ice on Lake
Michigan on Friday
YOUTH MAKES CHASTITY FIND
Workmen Are Forced to Use Pick Axes
and Shovels in Order to Remove
the Decomposed Body From
the Ice Piles

The last chapter save one OF the
sad romance of Felicia Capable and
Dominick Tomba was written on Fri
day afternoon just before four O'Clock
when the remains of the Italian girl,
who disappeared on the morning of
Dec "a of last year, we're found frozen
in the ice on the lake at the foot of
Market street. The finding of the re-
mains solves the mystery of the
disappearance of the girl and
there is now little doubt but that
Felicia Capable, crossed in love
by her relatives, ended her young life
by leaping into the lake from the
breakwater, but the relatives had
hoped against hope until yesterday
when the breaking up of the ice re-
vealed the body of the long missing
girl.
The CHASTITY discovery was made by
a youth by the name of Johnson, who
happened to b9<walking along the ice
just east Of the Kenosha water plant.
He had been gathering wire from the
ice when he happened to notice shoe
sticking out of the breaking ice and
slush. He reached to pick up the
shoe when he found that the shoe
held foot and pushing the ice away
a little, he found the badly decom-
posed body Of the girl. He ran for
aid and notified the police, and in a
few minutes a crowd had gathered at
the place where the body was found.
The police we're summoned, but
they found that it would be difficult
matter to remove the body as the head
and shoulders were firmly held in the
ice under the breakwater. IT was inn
possible to see the head of the decom-
posed body, but there was little doubt
but that it was the remains of the
missing Italian girl. Justice George
B. McCarron was called to act in place
of the coroner, and he summoned a
jury to view the remains, after which
work with axes and shovels and final
ly managed to extricate the body from
the ice into which it had been frozen.
The remains were taken to the
Miller & Cosgrove morgue, where
they were Identified later in the even
ing by members of the Capable,
family. The remains we're terribly
bloated and decomposed and SO dis
colored that Identification was almost
impossible. 1t is evident that the
body had been beaten by the waves,
as the flesh had been bruised in many
places, and nearly all of the clothing
that had been worn by the girl had
been torn off.
There was no indication of a
struggle for life and it is evident that
the young woman met almost instant
death in the icy waters Of the lake.
The disappearance Of the Italian
girl had been one of the hardest
mysteries given to the Kenosha police
for solution. Felicia Capable had
been employed at the plant of the
Chicago Kenosha Hosiery company.
On the day before Christmas she left
her boarding house on Park street,
and at that time she declared that she
was tired of living and would commit
suicide. A half hour after the girl
mad lett her home, woman was seen
to jump into the lake from the Park
street breakwater.
For days the lake was dragged for
the body and when nothing was found
of it, the relatives of the girl started
to search in other places for her. It
was alleged that she was engaged to
be married to one Dominick Tomba,
and that the opposition of her brother
to such marriage had caused her to
commit suicide.
The girl was eighteen years of age,
and her mother resides in Kenosha.
The mother, who was married a
second time seemed not to take a
great deal of interest in the search for
the girl.