New-York tribune., 1910-12-19
BROTHERS SHOT; ONE DEAD
SjciIian Youth, Trying to Avenge
Sister, Gets Wrong Man.
TRACKED TO HUT IN SWAMP
Unarmed, He Yields to Deputy
Sheriff-Sought Intended
Victim Three Weeks.

Through unfrequented byways OF
northern Westchester County, skirting
the little town Of Pleasantville, Grecorio
TsJtone wandered early and late, look
,,, for I.etorio Penturo His search con-
ttnued amost without lnterrnisslon TOT
three weeks. He did not speak to those
he met in his wanderings but in his eye
there was danger-danger for Letorlo
Penturo. the man who had desecrated his
home
Three weeks ago, according to the
story told by the little group of Italian
Ia borers who live on the outskirts OF
Pleasantville, Letorio, a good looking ST.
Gillian still in his teens, abducted the
sister of Taltone. She was but thirteen
wears old. Taltone swore eternal ven
seance on the man.
He traced Penturo and the abducted
child as far as Bridgeport, but there the
trail ended and Taltone returned nome,
detected Penturo wrote letters to
friends and relatives in PIeasantville. in
-
thew would never be found. When Tai
tone heard of this he swore he would
kill Letorio on sight
Yesterday afternoon Taltone went to
the home of Penturo's father, In Sara
toga. avenue. Before leaving his own
hut in the hills he vowed the old man
should answer for his sons sins He be-
n
place.
When he reached the home of Penturo
the elder, he demanded the whereabouts
of Letorio and the little girl. No word
came from the house, Taltone, standing
in the middle Of the path. handled his
double-barTeled shotgun in a menacing
Way. and shouted that he would shoot
the old man
AS he drew near the house. to carry
out his threat, Joseph Vasta and his
brother, Giuseppe, who, were visiting
Penturo, opened the door, and shouted to
Taltone:
what do you want?'
II want to see Penturo. He knows
where my sister is. Bring him out
had not gone ten feet when Taltone fired
load of buckshot into his breast The
charge tore a great hole in Vasta's body.
and he dropped to the veranda without
an outcry. mortally wounded
Seeing the fate of his brother, Giuseppe
yasta rushed toward Taltone, crying for
vengeance. The murderer levelled his
gun. and a second charge tore its way
through Giuseppe's neck. He died in bis
tracks.
Taltone threw his gun away then, and
vaulted a fence, making toward the
tracks Of the Harlem Railroad.
Chief of Police Poth, with an armed
force behind him. searched the surround
ing country all the rest of the day, but
found no trace of the murderer. It was
believed that Paltone made his way to
the new Catskill aqueduct, to lose him
self amid thousands of his countrymen
there employed
Deputy Sheriff William II. Wagner
tracked the Sicilian with more success.
arrestinE him In a hut in the marshes
Taltone after the shooting had boarded
a train, but dropped off soon after
Wagner obtained information that led
him to believe that the man who thus
disappeared might have been Taltone,
found footprints in the snow, and took
up the chase
It led across country and around by
a circuitous route to the swamp, and
into it. Then, in d shack in the swamp,
the man was found. He surrendered
without resistance. He was not armed.
He was taken to the county Jail at
White Plains.