The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-08-10
NEW YORK CRIME WAVE IN
CREASES IN ITS FlENDlSH
BRUTALITY.
IS SAVED BY POLICE
Deputy Police Commissioner Asks TOR
Funds to Employ 500 Additional
Policemen to Aid Pres
ent Force.

brutal OF recent crimes against women
and children was Monday charged
against Lucca Fonteza, who was
locked up at New Brighton, Staten
island, accused of assaulting Anto:-
nette Taluci, the 2-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Pasquale Taluci, OF
New Brighton.
FonteZa and Taluci are both labor
ers employed at the King plaster mills
in New Brighton. and Fonteza board
ed with the Talucis. FOnteZa was
left with the little child Monday after
noon while Mrs. Taluci went shopping
The mother had not gone far from the
house when the child's screams
brought her back.
When he saw Mrs. Taluci, Fonteza
rushed from the house, Mrs. Taluci
following him. Her cries brought out
TIE ~neighbors, and Don a mob was fol
lowing 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 q club
and revolver fought off the crowd.
The child, on the orders of a magis-
trate, was examined by a physician,
who reported that it was seriously IT.
igred. Fonteza was held in $1,000 bail
on the charge of assault.
Other Crimes Are Reported.
Ahgoline Fondarti, a ~6-year-oiL
child, was found terribly bruised in a
thicket near the village of Linoleum-
vile, Staten island, Monday afternoon.
She had been attacked by an unknown
man.
John Ambatro, an Italian laborer,
was arrested in Brooklyn Monday aft
ernoon on a charge of attempted as
| sault on two little girls. Daniel Lalo
| and Frank P. Body were arraigned on
| similar charges.
Deputy Police Commissioners
| O'Keefe. who is in charge of the pO-
lice department during the absence ot
| Police. Commissioner Bingham, asked
the mayor and the board of estimates
for appropriations for funds to employ
500 additional policemen. The request
will be acted on Wednesday.
Most of the crimes are committed in
little f~reQuented places. Mothers
throughout the city are terror-stricken
and the incidents which. under ordi-
| nary circumstances, would be passed
uver without a second thought, are
magnifed and reported as crimes
| while having little foundation in fact.
Many of the police officials believe
there is not an unusual number of as
| saults. but that the several murders
within the last few weeks and the hys-
| terical condition of the people, par
ticularly in the tenement districts,
| have caused reports to the police OF
| cases of which, under ordinary cir
| cumstances. they would never hear.
Thomas Anderson, a laborer aged
20 years, was arrested in Brooklyn
charged with an attempt to as
sault 5-yearold Julia ~Sleishcher.
The girl, it is said, was enticed by
Anderson into 6 barn in the rear of
her home. She told her parents, and
they notified the police, who arrested
Anderson.
May Mace, a girl of 16, says that
while she was standing in the door
way Of her home in Seventh avenue
Giuseppe Triste, said to be an Italian,
| approached her and asked her to go
with him. She refused. Shortly aft
| erward he returned and, it is alleged.
threw his arms around her. Her
| screams attracted attention, and soOD
| a crowd of 500 men and women were
chasing the Italian. He was over
taken and beaten numerically until
| half a dozen policemen rescued him.
Israel Israelson met little Freda
| Berkerwitz, aged Z, in 151st street
| Monday night, and, according to her
| story offered her a nickel to go With
| him. Her playmates told her parents
! and a crowd soon gathered about the
| man. The crowd became threatening
| by the time an officer appeared and
| arrested Irsaelson.