Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-12
BRUTAL MURDER
0tPretty Mrs. Anna Mauro,
Italian, New York.
Found lin Her Home Bound and
Gagged, Strang|ed. =
Police Want Husband Of Ten Weeks
For the Crime.

New York, Sept. 11.-A murder, at
tended by unusually brutal features,
was revealed today when the police
broke into a padlocked apartment in
18th street and discovered the bound
and gagged corpse of Mrs. Anna Maui
no, a pretty Italian woman, % years
old. There was evidences that the
woman was struck down from behind
as she was preparing to leave the
apartment, and that then the assassin
had bound her arms and ankles to
prevent resistance he stuck a gag into
her mouth to stif1e any cutlery, took
an automobile veil, tied it into a Slip
knot and strangled his victim to death
Since the day when it developed the
crime was committed-last Monday
David Mauro, the youthful husband of
the murdered woman, has been miss
ing and the coroner has ordered his
arrest. The couple We're married about
10 weeks ago and, it is said, quarreled
frequently. The janitress of the apart
ment house says she saw Mrs. Mauro
run into the building Monday night
and that few minutes later the hus-
band followed. In about an hour the
janitress says she saw Mauro come
out alone and she has not seen him
since. Neighbors noticed that pad
lock had been put on the door of the
Mauro apartment and they became
suspicious that something Was wrong
when day after day passed without
their seeing anyone enter 0" leave
The police were called in today ant
the murder was discovered.
Mauro, until Aug. 10 last was en-
| ployed as a gateman at the Houston
street station of the Third avenue
Elevated Railroad. He is little more
than 20 years old and on account OF
his youth. the mother of his wife, Mrs
| Raffello LaZZaro. refused to permit
him to marry her daughter, so the
couple were secretly married Mrs
LazZaro says that her daughter com
planned to her that Mauro was cruel t.,
her and the mother tried to induC,
her daughter to leave him.
Mrs. LaZZaro visited her daughter
on Labor day and this was the las,
time she saw her alive. 1t was Gus
| tomary for the daughter to visit her
parents nearly every day and this
morning, Mrs. Lazzaro remarked to
her husband that it was strange Anna
had remained away so long. This at
| ternOon she sent her 16ryear- old
| daughter Emily to see if anything was
wrong. Emily arrived at her sisters
| apartment, just after the police had
| discovered the murder. The girl was
overcome with grief when told that
| her sister was dead.
| Mrs. Mauro was fully dressed and
! her hat lay on table beside which
her body was found. 1t is believed
she was preparing to put her hat on
when the murderer struck her, render
ing her unconscious There was a
! deep wound on the back OF her head
| inflicted with some blunt instrument,
| and wound in her side. which might
have been made with knife. A red
automobile veil was still knotted tight
| ~ around the woman's neck and the
coroner says that death was not due
to the blow on the head or the stab
wound but to strangulation. Three
towels We're used to bind and gag Mrs.
Mauro.
With four days start on the police
it is feared Mauro may have left the
country. The police of nearby cities
have been asked to look for him.