The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-07
Party With Whom the Victima
Were Drinking Just Before
the Killing
WOMAN CLAIMED TO Be WIFE
OF MAN WHO WAS MURDERER
But Doctor Declared He Showed Hin
Photo Of His Wife and That Sha
Is Not the Woman Who Was In
iured In the Affair.

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hospital fatally wounded, the victim
of the vengeance of the black hand
society.
In the same ward lies an American
woman who claims to be his wife and
who was shot in the head. the sight
OF her eye being entirely destroyed. 1.
The man gave DIR. A. A. Peterson
the picture of woman he claims 10
OF his wife, but which is not that Of
the woman in the hospital. County
detectives are hunting for three Ital-
ians who were seen with the couple
and said to have done the shooting,
The murderous attack occurred about,
o'clock yesterday afternoon near the
mine of the Blaine Coal company.
about mile and half above Eliza.
beth.
Nicolletta and the wounded woman
were seen about Elizabeth Sunday
evening. Yesterday afternoon. in coml
pany with three well-dressed Ital-
ians. the couple started in the direc>
ton of the Blaine mine. +,
In Gay Mood.
They proceeded along the road un.
til they came to the farmhouse Of j
o. Robinson. According to Mr.. Rob-,
inson, they appeared to be in a joy.,
full mood, and supposing they wanted
to go to the foreign settlement back
OF his farm he told them they must!
not trespass on his property. The
woman told Mr.. Robinson they wanted.
drink fro nthe spring back Of hia.
house and he allowed them to go.
The party remained near the sprines,
house for about twenty minutes talk
ing all the while in good humor. Then
Nicolletta and the woman started in
the direction of "T.he Patch" the name
given the foreign settlement, through
the upper end of wheat field, and
passed through thicket. The three
men remained near the spring.
In about ten minutes the other. men
followed the couple hurriedly through
the wheat field and the thicket. Mr.
Robinson, whose suspicious had been
aroused started for the end Of the
barnyard and reached there in: time to;
see the three men disappear in the
thicket.
Another ten minutes passed and Mr..
Robinson heard the cry of "murder"l
in woman's voice. Then the woman,
came running towards the barn cry.l
ing:
"My God, get doctor quick. Theys
oave shot my husband"
Woman Blood Covered.
Her face was covered with blood
moving freely from wound in her,
head, but she did not seem to mind
her wound. She was running in the
direction of the spring house and ask
ed for basin of water Mr.. Robinson
told her to keep on down the hill and
he would follow with the water. He
is about 20 years old and could not
keep up with the wounded woman,
When he reached the railroad track
at the foot of the hill leading to his
home he found the woman lying face
downward across the tracks He CALI
to the men at the mine tipple, about
fifty yards away, that a woman had
been shot. She was carried to thai
mine Office and DIR. A. A. Peterson Of
Elizabeth called.
In the meantime Nicolletta, mortal..
ly wounded, started toward "The
Patch" When he reached the foreign
settlement he fell in front Of one Of;
the houses. He was not known by anyi
of the people. who allowed him to liel
there bleeding for about an hour.
Lay Dying in Street.
No one would touch him or attempt
to offer assistance. DR.. Peterson soon
arrived and had Nicolletta removed to
the Elizabeth lookup. whence he was
taken to the McKeesport hospital.
While DR.. Peterson was ATTENDING
Nicolletta the dying man pulled a pos
tai card photograph from his pockee
and told the physician that 1t was the
likeness of his wife. It is not that Of
the American woman who was shot.
according to DR.. Peterson, who saye
he took care to make observations.
Nicolletta also told the doctor he
was from Monessen and that he had
recently arrested several men at Fay
ette in connection with black hand
threats. He had a constable's war
rant in his pocket charging q foretgn-
er of Fayette with black hand accuea.
tions Other papers found on his per-
son are addressed to him in Elkins.
w. Va, and 1t is believed he comes
from that city.
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