The sun., 1909-06-29
she KILLS MAN IN STREET
BELIEVING HEWAS THE SLAYER
or HER HUSBAND.


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Come Fast Shoots Down Husbands
Friend On the sayso Of an Anonymous
Letter-He Refuses 10 Identify Her.
Mrs. Louisa Ie Barti Of 11s West Houston
street shot Domenico versaisi at Spring
and Sullivan streets at 8 clock yesterday
morning and wounded him 30 badly that
he died shortly after noon in st. Vincent q
Hospital.
The woman's husband. Bruno lie Bari.
an umbrella mcnder. was found murdered
at Downing and varick streets on the
morning OF June FL, 1908, and ever since
she has been searching for her husbands
slayer. Calamity followed fast in the
LIE Barti family. and within less than a
year after her husband went the woman
buried every one Of her six children.
Mrs. LIE Barti's neighbors for long time
believed that her mind was unbalanced.
As she walked a long the streets she peered
into the face Of every man that passed
her.
The police OF the Italian bureau did
everything that they could to run down
the man who killed LIE Barti. Shortly
before Lieut.. Joseph Petrosino went to
Palermo he promised the woman that he
would do his best to get the man who
had killed her husband. When Mrs
LIE Barti heard OF the murder Of Petrosino
she declared to her friends that she knew
that he had been killed by the man who
had killed LIE Barti. and her mind seemed
more than ever affected.
A few weeks ago Mrs. Le Barti received
an anonymous letter which read: DO
menico killed him. Domenico who came
and took him out so Often
This letter Mrs, LIE Barti took to Mag
istrate in the Jefferson Market court
and tried to get warrant. The police
Of the Italian bureau, however, were not
tod Of the letter and they did not know
that the woman suspected Versaisi until
he was shot yesterday.
For several days the woman was seen
at tho corner OF Spring and Sullivan
streets. but no one paid much attention
to her. She was there at 9 o clock yester-
day morning. peering into the face OF
every nah who came along, For nearly
two hours she waited. and then came
versaisi who was tailor and lived at
II Sullivan street
As soon as Mrs. Le Barti saw yesaisi
she pulled out a revolver she had con-
cealed beneath her apron and pointed 1t
at him.. Versaisi ran Mrs. lie Barti
fred. Versais did not stop, and she
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and the woman followed as fast as she
could and fired as she ran. As sne fired
the fifth shot he fell to the sidewalk, and
Mrs, Re Barti ran to him and snapped the
pistol at his head. policeman took the
empty pistol from her hand while the
woman attempted to kill the PROSTATE
tailor.
is this the woman who shot you?'
asked a detective later as Versaisi lay on
the sidewalk waiting for doctor from st.
Vincents Hospital.
versaisi looked at Mrs. LIE Barti and
said: Il don't know her. That was all
he would say.
At Police headquarters all that Mrs.
Ie Barti would say was that she believed
that versaisi had killed her husband.
The letter she had received was her only
reason. Versaisi and her husband had
come to America together from Calabria
and they had been fast friends. but Mrs.
lie barti did not know the man well, for
he did not visit her home. Versaisi was
much younger than lie Rarti, being only
20. while LIE Barti was nearer 80. Mrs.
Le Barti is rs.
She was taken before Coroner Acritelli
yesterday afternoon and held without
bail to await the inquest. The woman
was represented by Abe Levy. who would
not allow her to make a statement