The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
giuseppe AyellinO Stabbed
Through the Heart
Twelve Times.
FOUND DEAD in HIS SHOP
Lived There AIone-Murder DC.
CURED Early This Morning.
Discovered by Barber Who
Lives in the Same
Building.

Stabbed thirteen times in the left
breast, twelve of the wounds piercing
the heart, Giuseppe Avellino, about sc
years old, a shoemaker, of Irvington
was found murdered in his own shop
Just before daylight today.
Who murdered him is not known.
Neither is the motive known. The IrV-
ington police are inclined to believe
either that 1t was the work of the Black
Hand or that a personal enemy COM
nlitted the crime. AS $50 was found in
the mans pocket, robbery is not be-
lieved to have been the motive.
One man is held, in the belief that he
knows more about Avellino and his
friends than he cares to tell. This is
Salvatore Abruzzo, a barber, who for
inerly kept a shop in the same building.
No suspicion is at present attached to
Abruzzo, but it is believed that fear of
the consequences of telling what he
may know keeps him silent.
The murder occurred about 5: 30 a. M,
it is believed At that time Gersardo
Frunzi, a barber, who occupies the
store next to Avellino's shop, and his
brother, Vincenzzo, heard noise as OF
a falling body in Avellino's shop. At
that instant the front door of Aveino' s
place slammed. Alarmed they called
twice to their neighbor, but he failed to
respond. Then the brothers, going out
side. peered through the glass into the
oh L. chr A fr oir
story they saw Avellino lying on the
floor in the rear and Ia front of the
door leading to the mans living room
in the rear
Avellino sometimes drinks heavily,
the barber told the reporter later, and
they believed at the time that he was
drunk, or that he had a fit of some kind.
Vincenzzo Frunzi Immediately ran TO
the centre of the town, block away,
to notify policeman. He found none
and asked a newsboy there to send a
policeman to the shop as soon us one
appeared. A few minutes afterward
Policeman Louis Schultz appeared and
he hastened to assist the supposed
drunken or sick man.
He found the door unlocked, and
walking over to where Avellino lay
he discovered that the man was dead
and that his coat was stained with
blood
He at once summoned DR.. A. c.
Christian, of Irvington, and the ply
sician at once discovered that the
shoemaker had been stabbed to death.
Chief of Police Green, of Irvington,
began work on the case Immediately,
and he notified the prosecutors office.
Prosecutors Detective Joseph Ducker.
who lives in Irvington, then took
charge of the body.
County Physician Elliott went to the
place and ascertained positively that
the man had been murdered. He
found nine stab wounds over the
heart, but later examination, it is
said, revealed thirteen wounds, twelve
of which pierced the heart. The knife
penetrated through a coat, apron, vest
and two shirts. The deed was done
with long, sharp, double ed ged blade
bout three-quarters of an inch wide.
he work was apparently that Of
murderer well versed in stabbing.
The body was removed about 10
O'Clock to Kunz's morgue in Orange.
Avellino was not well known among
his fellow countrymen in Irvington, al
though he had kept his shop there for
two years. He was regarded as a
quarrelsonle, but Industrious man, and
he was left alone. 1t was due in part
to trouble between him and Abruzzo
that Abruzzo moved to his present
location, according to Abruzzo's own
story.
Avellino had friends in the Silver
Lake, Fourteenth avenue and Eighth
, avenue Italian districts it is said, and
it was with them that he spent most
of his time
OF late young Italian has been
. spending many evenings at Avellino's
place, ard the police would like to
know who this man is. Last summer
an italian of powerful frame and quite
tall spent much of his time in the shop
and is thought to have boarded there
The police are inclined to the belief
that this man may know something,
and efforts are being made to find him.
A year ago on Christmas night Avel-
limo was invited by some friends to
visit place in Fourteenth avenue, this
city. AT that time he was robbed of
$500 by those who invited him to call.
and when he returned he had badly
blackened eye. This story he told to
Robert j. Stillwell. owner Of the onild-
ing in which he kept his shop.
There are dozen explanations cf
how the murder was accomplished. The
one most probable is as follows;
AS was his custom, AvelIino got up
about S o'clock for the day He lighted
the fire in the little stove i'm the store
and then made some coffee. He was
about to drink his coffee when someone
came to the front door. which was still
locked. Placing the coffee and a heavy
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