The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-05
GIRL SHOT DEAD AT WINDOW
BILLET STRTKES HER ~ SIZE
(OWRS HER HlIR.

HAD Been Getting Ready 90 60 60 GarIbaldi
Celebration with Her Father shot
Thought 60 Have Been Fired I'm Fun
From Another window brothers HEIDI.
Sicily Row was sorrowful yesterday. and
while the small boys set OF iirecrackers
and rockets and their elders celebrated
In honor Of Garibaldi, those who hnew
Ninfa Constance found no enjoyment
in the occasion. for she was shot to death
Shootings in the row are not uncommon
there were three within the last few days
and they don't linger long In the memories
Of the Sioilians who populate the Block
OF Many Murders.
But IL was different yesterday when the
news flashed through the row that Ninfa
had been killed, and while the police were
unable TO get the person who fired the
fatal shot. there were many Italians who
established a precedent by Offering TO do all
In their power to aid the police in their hunt
for the girls slayer. II was the first I'M
usual shooting the row has seen, for there
was none who believed that the bullet was
intended for Nlnfa, and all felt IL their duty
to help the detectives find the person who
fired the shot.
Nlht6 UVcu vi JhS btCOtlu noOT vi lut
tenement at 2ts Elizabeth street with her
father Giuseppe. She was IN years old
not long ago. She had fine eyes and a
wealth Of black hair. and all through Sicily
Row they will tell you about those tresse-,
Right we'll could she be proud Of them, for
many a time had she been told that no
American girl could boast Of such beautiful
hair.
Early yesterday she arose TO prepare TO
go with her father TO Staten Island for the
celebration in honor of Garibaldi. She
stood az the window before q mirror combing
her hair when two shots were fired; All
morning tirecrackers and pistols were being
exploded in the yards and there was a con-
tinuous din from sunrise, Mariana Narara,
an aged woman who has been In the Cun-
zanto household since the death of the girls
mother several years ago. paid no atten-
ton to the racket outside, but when she
heard n cry from the kitchen she rushed in
from the bedroom and saw Ninfa lying on
the floor with a bullet hole In her forehead,
Mariana aroused Giuseppe and not be-
lieving the girl dead he rushed from the
house and Policeman Met abe
Of the Mulberry street station. Al am
Balance came from ~. Nincent's Hospital
and the surgeon said Ninfa had been in
>tantly killed. A bnllet from a revolver
had penetrated the brain.
The big tenement was in an uproaT when
the denth Of the girl became known. and
McCabe had To summon the reserves 10
restore order. Filomina Pslletiere. a young
woman who lives On the fourth floor. told
the police that she had seen two men firing
Of revolvers from a window ON the fourth
floor rear of 2j2 Mott street. Coroner
Acritelli ordered the detention Of twelve
Italians living in the Mott street tenement.
but all denied knowing anything about
the shooting Giuseppe and Nicolo Joli.
who occupy the room where the Palletiere
woman said she saw the men shooting.
were held by the Coroner. although both
stoutly declared they had not been handling
revolvers.
Because of Minfa's popularity among
the young swains Of Sicily Row II WIS limited
10y some of the Italians that some Tilted
suitor had fired the shots will deadly in
tent. Many Sicilians had asked herto marry,
but she told all that she would not wed
while her father lived She had cared
for him since the death of her mother.
Coroner ACritelli and the police of the
Mulberry street station believe that the
shooting was accidental and scout the
theory Of p~remeditated murder.