New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-02
WOMAN FOUNDSTRANG[ED
Friend of italian Shot Down in
Brooklyn Murdered at Home.
PICCOLO DIES IN HOSPITAL
She Was Known as Mrs. Piccolo
but Is Identified at Morgue
as Nellie Brennan.

woman known to her neighbors as
Mrs. August Piccolo was found yesterday
morning in the kitchen in a house in the
rear Of No. 463 Dean street, Brooklyn. She
had been Etrangled to death. Piccolo. the
man she e~d said was her husband, was
shot on Sunday near his home, No. 154
Navy street, that borough, and he died
shortly before the body of the woman was
discovered. AT the time an Italian boy
also was shot. The police believe the same
man committed both crimes. The woman
had told neighbors that her maiden name
was MCGUIRE.
Late last night the body was identified
al the Morgue by Mary Fitzgerald, ser
want, Of No. z57 Lincoln Road, as Nellie
Brennan. twenty-five years old. The Fitz-
gerald woman said that she did not know
Of gny recent marriage Of her dead friend.
Fenry Bauer. Of No 2S14 Clarendon Road,
FIttbush. went 10 the Dean street house
about i O'Clock yesterday morning 10 re-
pair some plumbing. Mrs. J. Legry,
the janitress, took him to the house in the
rear, and as they entered the kitchen they
saw the body Of the woman lying on the
floor. her clothing disarranged, her face
swollen and a handkerchief tied tightly
rar 10 the street. their cries arousing the
italian neighborhood.
Bauer went TO the Bergen street police
citation. Captain Bernard J. Hayes tele-
phoned 10 Brooklyn Police Headquarters,
end then hurried TO the Dean street ad-
dress DR.. McCord, of the Seney Hospital,
who had been summoned, said the woman
had been dead Tor several hours Deputy
Police Commissioner Reynolds, Inspector
Holohan and several detectives hurried 10
the house
The police found that the woman had been
rnistreated- and that thee was a wound
over her right eye. A mattress, torn and
twisted, in the bedroom indicated that a
hard struggle had taken place there. Two
glasses and several bottles Of beer stood
on the kitchen table. Cherries were scat
tered over the table and the floor and the
room was in disorder.
Detective Caputo was sent 10 the Brook
Ign Hospital where Piccolo had been taken
after he was shot. TO get a statement He
learned that Piccolo had died shortly be-
fore the body of the woman was discov-
cred. He had refused to say anything
about the shooting or about the woman.
The detectives questioned Henri Navar-
"a q barber, OF No. 465 Dean street He
said he knew nothing OF the man, supposed
TO be al Italian. who had shot Piccolo.
Then some one suggested that one Umberto
Russoe might know something about the
shooting. Detectives are searching for him
They learned that Piccolo had come from
Aprogola- Italy; that he had been a sales
man in a clothing store, and that he and
The woman had been much in each others
company. Her body was taken to the
Brooklyn Morgue.
Piccolo spent little OF his time at the
Navy street address. He took a room in
the house only Two weeks ago, al the time
that the woman rented the apartments in
Dean street. The police thought that the
couple had eloped from some nearby city,
judging by what the woman had told Ma
varra- On Sunday morning Piccolo called
on her. and when returning to his room
in Navy street asman, apparently an Ital-
ian, fred three shots at him. Two bullets
lodged in Piccolo's stomach. The third bull
Jet struck Giuseppe Destefano three years
old. No. CD President street, in the right
leg.