New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
HUSBAND KILLS FIVE,
THEN ENDS OWN LIFE
Wife, Two Children, Wlfe'S
Grandmother and Another
Relative PIeScia'S Victims.
CRUELTY CAUSED PARTING
Silk Mill Worker of Lodi, N. j.,
Goes to House Where Family
Sought Refuge, Pretend
ing to Have Gifts.
Inv Teleeranh TO The Tribune.

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Hackensack, n. j., Nov. 2S.-Enraged
because his wife would not return to
him. Ignazo Plescia, mill worker TO-
day shot and killed her. his two children
the grandmother Of his wife. another
relative by marriage and then he fired
bullet into his own brain.
Plescia called this afternoon at the
home of Sebastian Pecorino, in Union
street. Lodi, where his wife and two
children were staying with relatives.
The moment he entered the house he
began to use his revolver with deadly
accuracy.
The dead follow:
FoCARINo. Mrs. Anna. siSty-hve, mothsr-iinn, in,
law Of Sebastian Pecorino shot 'nioue"
head.
PECoRINo. Mrs. Antonio. seventy-eght srana,-
mother Of Mrs Ignazo Plescia. shot through
the heart.
PLESCIA Mrs Concerno, twenty-seven, wife o
the murderer. shot through the heart.
PI.DSCIA, Ignazo. thirty. shot in the head.
PLESCIA, Fedlo seven. daughter OF lgnsz'
Plescia, shot in the head and spine.
PLEsCIA. Rossano, four. son OF 1gnazo Plescia
shot in the head
Ten days ago Mrs. Plescia caused her
husbands arrest on a charge of wife
beating, and Recorder Kerr required him
to furnish a bond to appear before the
grand jury at Hackensack. He fire.
quently had abused his pretty young
wife. ever since their marriage in New
York City eight years ago. To avoid
notoriety the wife remained with him
until she could bear the treatment no
longer
Brought Gift" for Children.
Following her husbands arrest Mrs.
Plescia left his home on Garibaldi ave-
nue. Lodi, and went to live with her
grandmother and the Pecorinos. Joseph
and Sebastian Pecorino have a barber
shop and candy store in the building in
which they live Mrs. Plescia obtained
work in the Alexander Dye Works and
was happy with her two children. Yes
terday Plescia met his wife and asked
her TO return TO him, and she refused.
The wife was Just about TO return to
work this afternoon when Plescia en-
tered the Pecorino house. He carried
bananas, which he told a storekeeper
were for his children. No one knows
what argument followed after he entered
the house. for all who were there were
instantly killed. Sebastian Pecorino was
in the cellar when Plescia entered the
house
II knew what was happening the min
ute ! heard the shots. and being un-
armed I hurried from the cellar and
ran down the street, crying the alarm, "
said Pecorino. Il went TO Recorder
Kerr's Office and said my people were
being murdered. When I came back to
the house everybody was dead"
Eva Grunshanic, Polish girl who lives
in the rear of the Pecorino place, was the
only eyewitness of the tragedy. She
heard shots, and looking out of the win
dow saw Plescia follow his wife out of
the back door. He tore the baby from
his wife's arms. shot the woman through
the breast and the baby through the
! head. He then laid the little body on
the floor. The girl says Plescia then re-
| loaded his revolver and she fed from the
| window.
Slain at Washtub.
The fact that Mrs. Focarino was found
dead hanging over a washtub led the
authorities TO believe she was the first
victim. County Physician McFadden said
! her death was instantaneous, the bullet
passing through her brain.
The little girl was found on the kitchen
focr. still alive. She was hurried to the
Hackensack Hospital, but died shortly
! after reaching there. Two bullets had
/ shattered her jaws, while a third struck
! the spine.
! Mrs. PecorinO. grandmother Of Pres
cia's wife, nearly escaped the murderer
| but bullet struck her in the back as
| she was running across the yard and
she died in her tracks. Plescia returned
to the kitchen after killing the grand
mother and sent g. bullet through his
! forehead. He fell dead near the body of
his little son.
! Plescia, who was a small man, was
known as a drinker. He lived in Lodi
| four years, and worked in one Of the SILK
mills there. That he had planned a
wholesale murder was shown by the
fact that he was provided with about
two dozen cartridges. Eight bullets
killed five persons. but there was evil
delce that some Of his bullets were
w sted.