St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-16
AVENCES DEATH,
Daughter of Murdered Man
Fires Five Shots Into
the PROSTATE Body
OF Murderer.
The Murder the Result of
BlaCk-Hand Effort tom
EXtOrt Money from
Jos. MaZnella.
ManZella'S Saloon aud Res.
tauranC On Decatur st.
the Scene of the
Shooting.


death summarily. pretty Josephine
Manzela is in the Parish Prison
charged with the murder of her ia
theirs assassin, no bail having beer
fixed for the plucky little lady.
Two corpses lay, one in front o.
and the other inside of the saloon
of Giuseppe Manzela, No. 937 Deca
tur Street, near the corner of St
Philip Street, yesterday forenoon
Giuseppe Manzela reposed in front OF
his counter, and his assassin, Gui.
seppi Spenacchio, lay at his front
door with six wounds, two of them
fatal
1t was another
CASE OF BLACK HAND,
and the younger man, Spenacchio
was the villain. Spenacchio shot
Manzela, who, while falling in his
death agonies, yet found time and
strength to fire bullet into his as
sassin, and this was one of the NOR
tai wounds. Spenacchio staggered
towards the door with the revolver
still in hand pointed at the pros
trate form of his victim, and then he
grasped the pillar beside the door,
way to support himself. Strength,
however, left him, and he fell just
as the heroic daughter of Manzela
came out with revolver in her hand.
Shot after shot rang out, each bullet
finding it's billet in the body of Spe-
nacchio, and before she had emptied
her pistol Spenacchio was dead.
Charles Burke, engineer of engine
No. 10, was passing the place with
some fruit and vegetables in a paper
bag in his hands. He heard some
loud talking in Manzela's place and
stopped to look in. He saw a small
man with a dark mustache (Spenac-
chio) draw his revolver and fire and
start backing towards the door.
Then he saw Manzela fire shot as
he was fallino to the floor, and the
smaller man with the black mustache
came to the door where Enoineer
Burke was standing and supported
column. Suddenly young girl ap-
peared with a revolver in her hand
and, approaching the man who had
fired the first shot, leveled her weap-
on and tried to fire. Burke endeav-
Ored to prevent her, but
POOR GIRL, CRAZED
by the death of her father, which
she had witnessed, but, alas. too late
to prevent it, persisted and finally
got the first shot from the weapon.
Four more followed in rapid success
sion, and then she returned into the
house and brought her mother to the
saloon, where her fathers body lay.
The mother and daughter threw
themselves across the PROSTATE
form and burst out into screams and
walls of sorrow and despair.
Burke picked up the revolver
which was in the hand of the small
man with the mustache. He still re-
tanned the revolver from which the
girl had fired the five shots and on
the floor near Manzela he found an
other revolver. He still retained his
package, but suggested that the am
bulance be telephoned for, as he did
not know at that time that Manzela
was dead. He went to barber shop
in the neighborhood and telephoned
for the police, and in few moments
Captain Rawlings, Sergeant Seel
horst, Corporal Dave Jackson, and
several patrolmen were on the scene.
Chief of Detectives Reynolds, District
Attorney St. Clair Adams, Special to
the District Attorney Jerry Cain,
Special Captain James Grady and "a
number of detectives soon arrived
and systematic investigation was
commenced.
Josephine was conducted to the
district attorneys office, as well as
the witnesses who could be found,
while the
BODIES OF THE TWO MEN
were taken to the Nor ne, where
Coroner O'Hara held an autopsy.
Manzela only had one wound, that
in the left side if the chest, which
caused internal hemorrhage and
death. Spenacchio had four wounds,
with two superficial or glancing
wounds of the left arm. Two of the
wounds were fatal, one being in the
left breast and the other in the left
side, the latter doubtless being the
wound inflicted by Manzela as he
was falling. All the other four
wounds were from the weapon held
by the girl.
Such was the story of the killing
as seen by the principal eyewitness,
Engineer Burke, but as to the nature
of the conversation between the two
men and their quarrel Burke could
not say, because, although the men
talked loud, they spoke Italian and
he did not understand word. When
the police arrived Burke stood alone
in a crowd of Italians, for number
of these came to the scene at once.
At first Burke, who had three re-
yolvers in his hand, was somewhat
afraid. He dared not call on any of
those present for assistance, for he
knew enough of the character and
disposition of the lower class of 1tal-
ians to suspect every movement or
word. H felt greatly relieved, there
fore, when the police arrived and
took charge of the weapons and the
case.
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it's functions the bowels become de-
ranged, the liver and the kidneys con-
gested, causing numerous diseases;
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to healthy condition, and Chamber