The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-11-30
Pasquale Marchesi in Jeal-
GUS Rage Murders Wife
and Cousin.
PLEADS THE UNWRITTEn LAW
Murderer Surrenders Himself to italian
Priest Twelve Hours After Crime Is
Committed and Makes Full State
ment of Horrible Butchery.

Rivaling in it's atrocity the crimes
which made the White Chapel district
in London famous during the career
OF Jack the Ripper, Kenosha had
double murder on Saturday night
which was the most horrible in the
criminal annals of this section of the
state. Pasquale Marchesi, aged 27
years, an Italian, brutally hacked to
pieces with a Ratchet his wife, Rosario
Marchesi and Pasquale Marchesi, aged
19 years, who he alleged to have been
her paramour. The man and woman
were in bed together at the home of
Marchesi at the time the crime was
committed and Marchesi made his way
into the house through a window and
struck so suddenly that the man and
woman had no chance to escape or
make any defense. After wandering
aimlessly for twelve hours Marehesi
went to the Rev. Auf. Bandizonne, pas
tor of the Holy Rosary Catholic
church just after noon Sunday and
gave himself up. He was turned over
to Deputy Sheriff Eugene LaMaccia
and Sheriff Stahl and landed in jail
where he made a written confession of
his crime. He claims that he was
entirely justified by the unwritten law
and seemed to glory in the horrible
features of his crime.
The story Of the crime is an unusual
one. The two members of the Mar
chest family, Pasquale the husband
and his namesake Pasquale his cousin,
had lived under the SAME roof for
years. The older man was not hand
some and the younger man who was
murdered he claims had stolen the af-
fections of his wife. He had remon-
strated with the woman in vain and
it. was evident that she preferred the
younger man. Marchesi and his wife
have aired their troubles in the police
court on several occasions and only
recently the man served a twenty day
sentence after being convicted of beat
ing the woman.
On Monday of last week he had
been arrested by Sheriff Stahl on
charges Of non-support and at that
time he declared to the sheriff that
it was impossible for him to live long
err with his wife on account Of her
relations with his cousin.
Just after five o clock Saturday
night Marchesi had gone to the house
seeking reconciliation but he declares
that the wife slammed the door in his
face and declared that she never want
ed to see him again.
Marchesi returned to the house Just
after eight O'Clock and finding the
door barred against MIN he went round
the house and peeked in through one
of the windows of the bed room. He
discovered the two people, who were
later his victims, together in bed.
Without a word he went to shed in
the rear of the house and with a cum
ming born Of a disordered brain he
crawled back to the house and Stealth
" lifted the window and entered the
room He declared that the wife and
cousin were hugging and kissing and
that they failed to see him until he
stood by the bed with the Ratchet
raised over them. He struck the man
i blow in the temple which Drained
him and then as the woman raised in
bed with a view of defending herself
he fell on her with an insane fury and
beat her into insensibility. Even af-
ter the two were dead the man con
tillued his execution with the Ratchet.
There were i've great gashes in the
head of the<woman one of which com
pletelv severed her left ear while
others broke the skull in the front and
back of the head The brain of the
woman was beaten into pulp. Mar
chest did not stop his assault with the
death of his cousin but the head of
the man was battered in both in front
and back and great gashes were cut
in the other portions of the body.
Just as he finished the work of MUIR
der Mrs. Rose Marehesi, q sister of
the dead man and Joseph Mettaila, her
brother came from an adjoining room.
The room in which the awful crime
had been committed was lighted only
hy a small lamp and the woman and
boy fed from the house without re-
alizing the enornity Of the crime.
They fed to the home of relatives
and for an hour were IN terror.
In the meantime Marchesi calmly