New-York tribune., 1910-01-21
FIND THREE SLAIN
YOUNG WIFE TICTIM.
Police Think Murders Work of
Disappointed Louer.

An unknown murderer or band OF muir
derers entered the fiat OF Salvatore Seal
pone. on the sixth floor OF a tenement at
No. 10 Montgomery street. and beat out the
brains of the man. his young wife Marie
and their old housekeeper. Concetta Mar
tine. Whether the crime done on
Wednesday night or yesterday forenoon the
police have not determined. The murderer
or murderers escaped unseen and unheard
after piundering the fiat overturning the
furniture In search for money and
strewing the contents OF drawers and
shelves about the floor. The police believe
that the crime was an act of vengeance.
done by a disappointed lover OF the young
wife,
The girl was only twenty years old.
beautiful and OF much refinement, She
was soon 10 become rloIher. She was
last seen alive at Z O'Clock we6ne sday
night when she called at che fat OF a
neighbor. Her husband, who was young
barber with rather pretentious shop at
NO. 26o West Broadway. few doors from
the house. closed his shop at 10 o'clock
Wednesday night, leaving the keys with
one of his journeymen. Joseph Gingo. OF
No. Al Oak street.
At O'Clock yesterday afternoon FelIpo
Affronti, another OF the journeymen. called
at the nat to get luncheon with his EN-
ployer. as he usually did. He found the
door locked. Inside dog was whining
1t was a large brindle bulldog which
had been a pet in the house since the
young couple started their housekeeping,
less than year ago. Afronti was fright
ened and ran TO tell the janitress. Mrs.
Esther Kupfelmann. The woman could not
open the door. and together they told the
police Patrolmen Goss and Hogan entered
by means Of the fire escape
FIND THREE BODIES.
They found the two women dead in
the parlor of the fiat and the mans body
in the dining room. which opened from it.
Towels we're bound about their mouths. The
man had fallen without struggle but
the girls had been beaten down in
fight. All three were fully dressed. The
dog. chained in the passage. could Just
sniff at his masters feet
The whole fat had been upset in the
search for money which followed the
murder. Although blood was everywhere
there was not single finger print. and
no weapon which could have done the
crime bore stain. a hatchet. which
would have made exactly such wounds,
was free from blood and had not been
washed.
Captain Schott. of the Madison street
station. said he believed that a disappoint-
ed lover OF the girl had murdered the fam
lily In revenge. and afterward had robbed
the place Though even the linen that had
been made ready for the expected child
was strewn on the floor, the diamonds in
the girls ears had not been touched and a
sum of more than 500 which she carried
was not disturbed
That such crime could be accomplished
In the very heart of the lower tenement
district without an alarm and without
earlier discovery caused surprise even in
Police Headquarters and brought dozen
detectives to the spot hurriedly. Captain
Carey, head of the homicide bureau came
In person and took charge OF the work.
Michael Fusco and Madeline his wife. the
parents of the dead girl were brought TO the
fiat. The hcvror OF the place was too much
for them. and the police could learn little
from them. Their home is at No. 5l3 East
45th street. From the fact that bottle OF
milk which had been left in the hall had
not been taken inside, il is supposed that
the crime was committed either in the early
the family had gone to bed A detective
also found what seemed to be the prints OF
a bloody hand on the stair rail leading to
their floor.
1sador Friedman vioInist, who lives In
the next fiat. said that the dividing wall