Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-09-13

WOrds. but empty.
Police Could Do Nothing.
Two weeks to day. or Jan. 1S,
1909. after Giovanni received his word
of warning. he was sitting beside the
frosted windows in the rear of the lit
tie poolroom he maintained at %
Coles street, Brooklyn. when he was
shot dead. @
Quickly the police reached the spot.
Back across the yard whence came
the shot that had killed Giovanni went
the police. straight to house front
ing on the next street. But there the
trail stopped.
But II the police did not know then.
they do now that the Cardinellis
knew who had fired the shot. even
though they would not tell.
1T is the work of the Other" said
the Cardinellis!.' THE Other must
die"
& Little Is known just how much the
Cardinellis have retaliated against
their enemies. Yet no great stretch
Of Imagination Is required to picture
the other side Of the story.
Back no later than March OF this
year particularly sinister-looking ST.
Gillian was found lying badly wounded
in the gutter of street in the Latin
quarter of st. Louis In his body were
forty-three distinct knife wounds.
1t was days before the police Of St.
Louis were efen able to force the man
to tell his name and admit that he
had come from New York. Other
than that he would not tell. Why or
how he had been injured, of that he
would not speak. Who had attacked
him? He knew, but he would not tell.
II know; and I FIX him." was all he
would say.
good nursing and marvellous consti-
tuition. the man recovered and left the
hospital. The next day he disap-
peared from st. Louis.
The cardineiil Side.
Was that one incident in the other
side of the Cardinelli vendetta? The
police say 1t was.
Were 1t not. how, ask the police.
did the Cardinellis in New York know.
even before word was published in
any newspaper, that the Other had
been stabbed forty-three times in a
street of st. Louis? For the injured
man was the Other.
And then came the third warning to
the Cardinellts.
est fat house at 344 E. 21st street.
New York Right next door lived his
father. his mother and his brother.
Two years and more had passed
since the death of Giovanni. In the
interim the Cardinellis had escaped all
harm. The vendetta for them. at
least had apparently ceased to exist.
And then came the warning:
"You will dle-at the window"
The message did not seem to inter-
fere with Bartholdrs occupation as
barber. To and from his work he
went, apparently as care-free as any
man could possibly be.
Bartholdi even dared to sit on the
front steps Of, the house in which he
lived in the early hours Of the even
ings. But once he set foot across the
threshold of his own home-then all
was changed. There. and there only,
did danger Turk for him.
For two weeks Bartholdi. Cardinel-
lis form never showed at a window of
his home, either by day or by night.
And then came-death.
The night was particularly hot. The
small rooms OF the fiat were stuffy
and oppressive. Suddenly Bartholdi
rose from his chair. walked to the win
dow-fell back dead.
A pane Of glass lay shattered on
the floor and five gaping wounds made
by as many crudely shaped slugs of
lead showed in his body.
Five minutes after the shooting the
entire block was surrounded by po-
lice. Not house. not roof, not
cellar escaped their search, but the
slayers were not to be found.
Murderers In Safety.
1t was not difficult for the police
to trace the source OF the shot. Al
most on line across the street from
the home of Bartholdi they located
the lair Of the murderers. but the muir
derers were gone.
They had left behind them the gun
with which the crime had been COIN
mitted, crude. old-fashioned shot
gun, a pile Of cigarette ashes. an emp
ty bottle or two. and that was all.
Vincenzo is still alive. Francesca.
the father, Is. too. But it is not Fran
cesca who Is in fear. He Is old and
his days are but few as it is. But
Vincenzo!
AS he stood by the casket in which
lay the body of his brother. his cheeks
paled and his knees trembled at the
burden they bore.
IT am the next, there is no escape"
| said the man. "They who have killed
three will return for fourth. What
is to happen will happen"
Know them? Yes. Vincenzo believes
he knows who killed his two brothers
and his uncle. but to the police he will
say nothing. "They can do nothing"
he repeats over and over again. land
should / speak 1t would only hasten
the end for me-"
| But. despite his fears, despite his
own certainty that his end Is not far
off, it may be that Vincenzo will live.
| The police have learned much. But q
few days back they found one whom
they believe to be the Other. He has
been arrested. and If they who have
told will tell again, the police believe
that the time has come when they will
be able to write finis to the story of
| the Cardinelli vendetta.
But Vincenzo Cardinelli shakes his
head and. staring straight In front of
him, merely mutters. I'VE shall see"
ter! When will these Romans wake
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