The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-06-01
BOY SHOT BOY DEAD FOR $3.50


part OF the cellar where there is q whole
line OF coal bins that people living in our
house used for coal and things.
we pushed Johnny in the second coal
bin from the last. 1t didn't have doors
on il. 80 we got boards and nailed them
over where the doors used 70 he. Before
We nailed Johnny up Fatty got some oil
cloth and put 1t over the feedbag. And
then Fatty gave me a quarter and Joe
quarter and Fatty went out and bought
new suit and We all went To the moving
pictures"
They came back to Cherry Hill last
night and won't to the rooms where the
murder had been committed and slept
there until yesterday morning.
Johnny's mother. Mary Mialo. whose
husband. Louis. 10 a barber at ii6 South
street. all day yesterday had been trying
to find Johnny. just as she had been ask
ing the small boys OF Cherry Hill whether
they had seen her boy since he disap-
peared from his home at 80 Cherry street
last Saturday night. As the afternoon
progressed awestruck youngsters began
to gather In little groups to whisper to
one another that Johnny Mialo had been
shot by the gang dead"
Carmine Piombno came back TO the
Cherry Hill neighborhood after his work
as errand boy was finished and told the
awestruck playmates that he knew
Johnny had been murdered Before
going to work yesterday morning Car
mine left the keys of his room at the
grocery store where his sister Fanny
works and left word that his sister was
to take charge Of the keys.
Johnny's mother late yesterday heard
Of the whispered report going around
the tenement alleys that her boy had
been shot. Shortly after dark last night
as she was going from child to child
and crying a. she walked through the
rain she happened upon little Joe and
Mario Leoni in Pearl street.
Have you seen my johnny" she asked.
.No; he Is killed." piped one Of the Leon
boys; ,. ~. ,ov x,, .nox.
the feller that killed Johnny" added
the smaller I.eoni boy.
The mother took the hands OF the two
boys and asked them to help her find
the boy who knew where Johnny lay
A block and a half away the two boys
spied Carmine Piombino and pointed
him out to Johnny's mother as the boy
who knew.
Where's my johnny Mrs Mialo
called to Carmine "a she ran across the
street toward the boy.
started away Mrs. Mialo grabbed the
You do know. she cried You killed
him.
that killed him. Carmine broke in,
saL. t..t -ta hD,
don't tell me all about it, Mrs. Mialo
threatened Carmine. and started toward
the Oak street station house with him
He faltered a moment.
Come on" he said after a moment
"lll tell you how Johnny was shot and
where he in now.
Carmine led the way to his own tene-
ment. William Cortling. the janitor. Was
standing in the doorway talking TO q
friend named William Moseman. when
Carmne and Johnnys mother reached
the door
"Carmine says my Johnny was shot
here yesterday morning and that his
body is down in a coal bin" the mothe
said. NO. no. won't 60 down. You
look quick"
and hurried to the cellar. The ceiling Of
the cellar is so low that man cannot stand
upright in il The Janitor remarked To
Moseman as they crawled back toward
the bins that earlier in the day he had
noticed some boards freshly nailed over
the entrance 10 one Of rhe bins and had
wondered momentarily who had done it,
They tried this bin first. Cording held
the candle fame over the topmost board
while Moseman wormed into the bin
Nothing here but n piece OF oilcbth
and a bag of clothes" announced Nose
man after moment. The janitor sug-
gested that Moseman pull the bag out
and tina. they look into il, Moseman silt
the bag with a jack knife and in doing
SO cut the cords that bound Johnny's
figure. The boys body slaughtered o,it
on the cellar floor.
The two men ran upstairs than and
pausng only TO grab Carmine and to tell
Mrs. Malo that they had found her boy
they hurried along Cherry street until
they found Policemen Bertini and Huh
bard The two officers took Car inc in
charge and led him TO the station hsu p
He told his story with no signs of
nervousness. At no time did he seem 10
realize that the matter he was being
questioned about was a bit more serious
than il he had been arrested for playing
in the street.
Sometimes the boy would interrupt
ga gerly to correct when reporters or de-
tectives got mixed up in details. There