Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-08-06
RAV|SHED
BY BRUTAL
ITALIAN
SHOCKING CRIME ADDED
TO G0THAM'S GRIM LIST
People Terror Stricken Afraid
to Leave Children Out Of
Their Sight Trivial Incidents
Cause Panic.
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New York, Aug. 5.-Ope of the
most brutal of the recent crimes
against women and children was to-
day charged against Luzza Fontza,
who was locked up at New Brighton,
accused of assauting AntOinette Ta-
luci the two-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Pasquale Taluci Of New
Brigton.
Fontza and Taluci are both laborers
employed at the King plaster mills in
New Brighton. and Fontza boarded
with the Taluci family. Taluci was
left with the little child this afternoon
while Mrs. Talucl went shopping. The
mother had not gone far from the
house when the child's screams
brought her back. When he saw Mrs.
Taluci, Fontza rushed from the house
and she following him. Their cries
brought out the neighbors and soon a
mob was following the fleeing Italian
down the street He was soon over
taken and was knocked to the ground
where he was severely beaten and
kicked by men and women until q
policeman arrived and with club
and revolver fought off the crowd.
The child on the orders of a magls-
trate, was examined by a, physician,
who reported that it was seriously in
jured. Fontza was held In $1,000 bail
on charge of criminal assault.
Angeline Condarti a six-year-old
child, was found terribly bruised in
a thlcket near the village of Linol-
eumvlle, Staten Island, this afternoon
She had been attacked by an unknown
man.
Jolly Ambatro, an Italian laborer,
was arrested in Brooklyn this after
noon on a charge of attempted as
saut on two little girls. Daniel Ialo
and Frank p. Body were arraigned on
similar charges.
Deputy Police Commissioner
O'Keefe, who is i'm charge of the po-
lice department during the absence Of
Commissioner Bingham today asked
the mayor and the board of estimates
and appropriations, for funds to en-
ploy Ave hundred additional police-
men. The request win be acted upon
Wednesday,
Most Of the crimes are committed In
little frequented places. Mothers
throughout the city are terrOr-stricken
and incidents which under ordinary
circumstances would be passed over
without second thought are magni-
fed and reported as crimes which
have little foundation 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 hysterlcal
condition Of the people, particularly
in the tenement district, have caused
reports to the police of cases, of which
under ordinary circumstances, they
would never hear
Thomas Anderson, a labOrer, aged
twenty years, was arrested I'm Brook
lyn tonight. charged with an attempt
To assault flve-year-od julia Sleisch-
er. The girl It is said. was enticed
by Anderson into a barn In the rear
Of her home. She told her parents,
and they notified the police. who ar
rested Anderson.
May Mace, girl of sixteen, says
that while she was standing In thp
doorway Of her home In Seventh ave-
nue. tonight Giuseppe Trlstre, 91
Italian, approached her and asked J. r
10 20 with him. She refused. Short "
after he returned and. II Is ALLEGED,
threw his arms around her. Her
screams attracted attention and soon
a crowd Of five hundred were chasing
the Italian He was Oyertaken and
beaten numerically before half a
dozen policemen rescued him.
Israel Israelson met little Freda
PerkOwilz, aged seven years. In one
Hundred and FIfty-first street. to
night and according to her story Of
fered 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
Israelson.