Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31
.SLASHES WOMAN
WITH A RAZOR
Jealous Italian Makes a Murder
Gus Attack on Former
Sweetheart.
PULLS A GUN ON -PuRsUERs.
Exciting scenes on Third South Street
This Afternoon During Capture
Of Attempted Murderer.

Slashed and cut in nearly a dozen
places with a razor welded with all
the strength and rapidity Of an in
furated sritor whose advances had
been rejected. Coccetto Paolo. an Ital-
ian woman, or Rosie Paul as she is
known in English, lies in q precarious
condition at the Or, Groves =. D.
hospital.
The cutting was done by Dominica
Albanese, am Italian 81 years of age.
who rushed INTO the room occupied by
the woman in a roonling house at "a
West Third South street shortly before
L o'clock this afternoon, and before
anyone knew what he was about, he
drew a razor and made Il furious at
tack upon the woman, cutting her
eight times in different places Twice
he drew the blade acrossYt the Woman's
cheek once over her forehead. once
across the wrist. one cash across the
fingers of one of her hands. one thrust
over her shoulder and another incision
down her back opening up The flesh in Z
many of the cuts clear down6to the
bone. The rnaddered man then rushed
out of the house and down the lot TO (
an alley, where he Disappeared In an
Clubhouse. 81 5
ACCUSES DOMINGO. )
Y Attracted BY the screams Of the won-
IAN n large crowd gathered round the
5outside9,of thesrooming house. Just at
that moment Deputy Sheriff Jack Cor
les; and Asst. Taller Jack Forbes, Who I
We're riding by on a street car. saw
the crowd gathering and heard the
screams of the woman. The officers
jumped from the car and ran into
the rooming house, where they saw the
Italian woman lying on the hall floor in
"a POOL Of blood, and screaming for help.
AS Deputy Corless approached her she
yclasped his arms and screamed. ut
was Dominec that did it: it was Domi-s
NEG, the little dark complexioned man. =
HOLDS CROWD AT BAY.
Deputy Corless and Jailera Forbes
then took up the chase for the Italian,
and the crowd followed The man was
soon found in an clubhouse near by.
holding the crowd Mt bay with Il cooked
revolver In one hand and the razor
with which he had slashed the wo-
man in the other hand officer Eorless5
rushed into the clubhouse and grappled
the gun out of his hand, and ordered
him To give up HE razor, which he
did. He then placed Albanese under
arrest, and took him to- the county
Jail. where he was lodged in a cell
y The woman was taken to the enler-
geny hospital in a patrol wagon,
where her wounds We're temporarily
bandaged, after which she was sent to
the Groves T.. d. S. hospital for further
treatment. The wounds, while none
of them necessarily VITAL accustomed
tho loss of so much blood that her
condition is regarded as serious,
ALBANEsEs STORY.
There are conflicting stories on tho
part of the man and or the woman 3
According to the story of Albanese he
met the woman in Minneapolis soma
months ago. He had a few hundred
dollars and the woman formed an at
tachment for him. Together they went
for a month. Several weeks ago tn.
woman met in Denver another man Of
whom she became cnamored. AlbaneSe
had trouble with this man. resulting
in his being shot by the rival. Alba
ncse went to hospital in Denver from,
which he was released 10 days ago. He 4
found the woman gone. and by trac
ing her discovered that she had come
to Salt Lake. He came to Salt Lake Z
about 10 days ago, according to his own +
story, and being inoulder by trade.
secured employment for three or fcllr
days ut Silver Bros Iron Works.
Every day he was looking for the Paul ]
NNOl1ldi, tLftu ltC it-tii iSn
whereabouts. and communicated with
her by phone. Two appointments wsrs
made, both of which she failed to keep.
The last appointment was for today.
and when she failed to keep the last Z
one Albanese became furious and !ui- 4
lived her to her roonIlng house. where
lie attacked her with the razor. IF / Z
get out of this trouble" declared Al
banese. Il Will follow the other man
and Kill him.
The woman claims that she had been
living with .Albanese for a month at
Denver, and that they came here to-
gether Alhanest attacked her, she
claimed, through unfounded jealousy
of another man.
THE woMANss4 STATEMENT.
After the womans wounds We're
dressed and while She was waiting to
be taken to the Groves l.. d. S. hos
pital for further treatment she said
that she had come here from st. Paul
with Alhanese, and that they had been
living together since that time. A week
ago he made II proposal to her which q
she refused to accept and then she re-
fused to live with him longer. THIS E
she said that he came to her
room and Knocked on the door Not
knowing WHO was knocking, she al-
mitted him. Me at once made a lunga
at her. drawing the razor and slash
ing her. with terrible abandon. In all
nine wounds were inflicted before H..
ran from the room and into the street.
The woman was taken in an ambu-
lance to the hospital and the surgeons
having her case in hand say that she
will undoubtedly recover. though the
wounds are very serious and are Very
painful.
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