The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-21
Chicago Has One of Most Afro
cious Murders in Police Els
tory-Woman's Mutilated
Body Found.

New York January 20.--A triple !
murder was revealed In an, obscure
fat In the heart OF New Works. East
SIDE at o and ~ Montgomery Street.
at dusk to-day. Two women and
man are the victims, and the man
ner or death was horrible. Gagged
with silk handkerchlIfs and their
heads crushed with hammer or axe,
they were left bleeding and fully
dressed on the floor with q whimpcr-
ing bull terrier as companion for the.
dead. Robbery was ,srhe motive. or
else it is another case of the Black
| Hand
Salvatore scalpone. well-to- do
\ young Italian barber. his wife aud Il
/ middle aged woman, believed to have
| been Mrs. Scaipone's mother, are the
4 victims His failure to appear at his
| shop to-day started an investigation
| which resulted In the discovery OF the
crime. Policemen. summoned by the
| ianitor of the apartment, entered the
4 locked HAT by way OF a FIRE escape.
In the kitchen, Scalpone's body was
found. 1t was tied to the door, the
face battered, and beyond recogni
ton. and lying in great smear OF
i blood Near his master stood the
i whining bulldog. covering and blood
bpalleEeu. lIle animal Hdu paced aim
i lcssly from body to body, smiling one
and then the other, staining the floors
crimson with his footprints and waits
Il Ing for human aid.
i In the next room were the bodies OF
II the women, gagged. as was the man
u the handkcrchiefs similarly knotted
and the heads battered as If the same
instrument had been used on al
three. But no weapon with which
i such wounds could have been inflicted
J was found in the fiat.
Inspection by the officers revealed
. dire confusion: drawers were dumped
out. cupboards ransacked, mattresses
ripped open and every conceivable hid.
ing place Tor money or yaluables price
open. In little hallway last trace.
of the murderer or murderers were
found There, concealed under po-
tato sack. was basin half-filled wifi
bloody water, a blood-stained vesse
and pair of overalls, also blood
spattered The water had probabls
been crimsoned as the slayer washed
his hands before securely locking tn,
! apartment and making his escape b;
| the fire escape.
1 Whoever took the three lives work
| ed quietly, else next door neighbor!
| are confused in their statements.
was late last night that the crime wa
committed, for Scalpone worked a.
usual in his shop until 10 o'clock las
lnight,
Joseph lingo, scalpone's assistan
barber, alarmed at the failure of hi
employer to appear for work to-day
/ gave the first clue to the murder. III
called a, the fat late this afternoon
i found II locked and summoned the jan
llitor. The two tried the door. but wit
no avail Then the police were called
and. entering by the fire escape. stoo
aghast before the three lifeless forms
The police are of the opinion tina
more than one person took part in III
murder. for with the bulldog on guar
and three persons to cope with, on
l man would have been powerless; MS
examination showed that Scalpone
BODY had been dragged from the din
1 ing room to the kitchen, where 1t wa
tied. There Is no direct clue, how
ever, to the murderers.