Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-06
MURDER COBBLER
FOR HIS MONEY
AND BURN BODY
Woman Hears Six Shots and
Sees Two Men Fleeing
from House.
SUSPECT ARRESTED IN
KEARNY; ONE GETS AWAY
Police Say '2Black Handlers
Work-VitHim Was to Be
Married Next Month.

Louis Puglisi, 80 years DID, a pros
pering shoemaker. who was to have
been married next month to Brook
lyn girl. was found shot to death In
his home, 1873 Dukes street, Kesrny, to-
day In an effort to conceal their
crime of murder and robbery members
of the Blackhand--the police say this
society is behiI4d the crime-set fire to
the body. and when it was found the
entire left side was charred.
A half hour after the crime was
committed Antonio Miceli, 81 years,
of rs Rivington street. New York. with
his hands and face covered with blood,
was caught as he was hurrying through
the streets of Kearny and is held on
suspicion of murder A man who was
with him got away The police are
working on the theory that three men
were implicated in the crime.
Puglesi came to Harrison about six
months agc. buying the one-story
house in Dukes street. He was thrifty
and was said to have saved consider
able money, which he kept about the
house, not believing In banks. There
are three rooms. One he used as his
shsp. another as a living-room and in
the third room he slept
Means Awaken Woman.
Mrs. George Earle. of 124 Dukes street,
whose husband is night watchman,
was awakened at O'clock this morn
ing by means and the noise OF a schffie
in the shoemaker's home. She got out
Of bed and was about to throw open "a
window when she heard three shots.
When she opened the window she saw
a young man come from the shoe
makers home and run west on Dukes
street. Then she heard three more
shots and saw two more men leave the
place. After glancing about they ran
off in the direction of that taken by the
first man she saw
Mrs. Earle, terrified, looked up and
down the street and seeing no police
men, went back to bed. She says fhe
didn't sleep wink and was nervous
wreck when her husband came home
about o'clock.
At the same hour, 2 q. M, Albert
Mansfield, of 95 Tappan street, a milk
mans boy, also heard shots but didn't
make any effort to investigate,
Men Try to Evade Policeman.
At 2:35 o'clock Policeman George
Holt was patrolling Kearny avenue
between Rose and Woodland ave-
nues when two men came toward him.
When they saw the policeman they
tried to evade him by crossing to the
other side of the street. The police
man ordered them to halt. and they
ran. Holt overlook one, who gave him
a fight. but was quickly subdued.
The prisoners face and hands we're
covered with blood. When the police
man asked him how he received the
blood he said he had been in i fight
TUESDAY night" At this time the
policeman knew nothing Of the murder,
but locked the man up as suspicious
character.
When searched at the police stati N
a receipt fer money order sent to
Calegro Miceli, Italy, was found on
him. He had given another name, and
when the money order was foun ad-
mitted that his right name was An
tonic Micel; and that he lived in
Rivington street, New York.
Policeman Holt recalled that in the
tussle with his p -3oner he heard some
thing drop, and went back to the scene
Of the scuffie. There he found re-
volver with four empty shells and two
unused cartridges.
"A search Ol Inc lIidu pOSh-
cts fsvealed a return ticket from New
arht to New York on the Pennsylvania
railroad The ticket had been bought
yeIterday.
1 was not until o'clock this morn
ing that the body was found. News
of Aae means and shots had been cir
culated in the neighborhood and all
feared to enter the house. Nicholas De
Bow telephoned the police and Desk
Sergeant Charles B. Sheppard sent Po-
liceman Peter Vreeland to investigate
The policeman was followed into the
house by more than score of persons.
Agony Depicted on Face.
over in one corner of the living room
was the body of the shoemaker. 1t was
doubled up and on the face was an
awful expression of agony. There were
evidences about the room of a terrific
struggle. leg of a chair had been
sent clean through the murdered mans
skull. Trunks had been forced open
and their contents strewn about the
blood-stained floor.
A further investigation showed that
the murderers had set fire to the body.
1t was the opinion of the police that
Puglesi, who was in his night-clothing.
heard the robbers at work on his
trunks, and, arming himself with a
knife, he had ktven them battle. A
trail of blood which led from the house
showed that at least one of the robbers
had been wounded. The fight was an
q unequal one. however. and Pugiisi
finally sank to the floor, dead
None. not even the policeman, went
near the body to learn the exact cause
n of death. This was following out the
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