The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-01
SAY hes CARDINAL SLAYER
ITALIAN SUSPECTED or THREE
MURDERS rs TAKEN.

hLHhN SSSEESlED OF III nk "
MURDERS IS TAKEN.
Peilesrino scaglia. Whisked by Detective
Out OF 81. Louis into Illinois In Taxi.
brought TO New ork-slapped Face
said TO Have Started BlOsd Feud.
thin. cadsverous little man with
swarthy black hair and mustache and q
badly SCARED face was locked up at
Police Headquarters last night by two
detectives who had gone TO st. Louis to
|extradite him. The Central ONCE men
crowded around the little italian and
looked him over very carefully. for they
believe that he was implicated in at least
two of the Cardinali murders. the last Of
which occurred at about ten minutes
after midnight on July 81. when Bartolo
Cardinalis head was almost blown Of
a. he sat cooling himself at a window Of
his tenement. 344 East Twenty-first street.
Bartolo was not the first OF his family
To meet a violent death nor was he entirely
without apprehension that his end would
be sudden. The CARDINALS, said the de-
tectives last night. came to New York
from Sicily some six or seven years ago.
There we're three brothers. Giuseppe.
Bartolo and vincenzo. and with them
came their uncle. Giovanni CARDINAL
Pellegrino Scaglia was playmate OF the
CARDINAL boys back in the home town
Of Burgio in the province Of Girgenti.
Sicily. and when his three friends came
to America he decided to cast his fortune
with theirs. The police when they had
occasion later to look up the records Of
these people in Sicily found that the
Cardinals were regarded as peaceful.
law abiding folk. but that scaglia had
stabbed q man before he came to this
country and had served time for it.
The Cardinilis and Scaalia settled in
Brooklyn and afterward Joined the same
benevolent society there. Three years
ago in March a friend OF the Cardinali
brothers told them that he had been
receiving threatening letters and showed
some OF them to the CARDINALS. They
recognized the handwriting. they
thought. as that OF Scaglia. The matter
was brought up at the meeting OF the
society to which they all belonged and
before tho meeting was over Giuseppe
Cardinali had slapped Scaslia's face
and the latter rushed out Of the room.
On his way homo that night Giuseppe
passed through Cotfey Park and there
was seen In conversation with Scaglia.
Tho two were quarrel ling. On the morn
ing OF March 10 Giuseppe's body was
found in the park punctured with stab
and bullet wounds.
Giuseppe's uncle. Gio1anni. at that
time had q pool and billiard room at 2s
Cole street. Brooklyn. He refused to
give the police any information regarding
the affair. They told him that he was
foolish. for sooner or later his turn woul d
come too. AZ the time OF the murder
Scagla disappeared from New York
and nothing was heard Of him until the
spring OF 1909. when the three remaining
CARDINALS found that he was in st. Louis.
A few weeks after they had discovered his
Giovanni CARDINAL met his
death. He was sitting at the window
OF his pool room one warm night in June
when q shot was heard. Giovanni sank
to the floor dead with large hole in his
head
II was found then that two men had
rented q room opposite the pool room
q few days before the murder and that
they had Immediately thereafter dis
appeared. A sho otgun was found in the
room.
On July 80 last Giuseppe met his death
In very similar way. His head was
blown almost of as he was sitting at the
window. and an investigation disclosed
the fact that a room had been rented
opposite tho house several DAYS before
the murder. This time two sawed of
shotguns were found in the room and it
appeared that both must have been dis
charged at once. because they contained
empty shells and only one explosion had
been heard.
The last CARDINAL Vincenzo, had seen
Scaglia lettering in front OF the tenement
at 343 East Twenty first street. where the
guns were found. and so had several
other Italians. Scaglia disappeared on
the day after the murder.
The police in st, Louis were asked to
look him up and they found that he had
left that city for week or more during
the latter part OF July. He admitted that
he had gone away for q few days but
said that 1t was not until July 80, the day
that in April Scaglia had been attacked
by three men as he was returning to his
home one night and had almost been
stabbed to death. That is why his face
10 80 disfigured that it gives him brutally
expression.
When Scaglia was arrested at the re-
quest OF the police here Detectives Rocco
Cavane and Ralph Micelli were sent to
St. Louis with extradition papers. and
Detective O'Brien went there with Vim
cenzo CARDINAL to identify Scaglia to the
OF st. Louis Justice
Scaglia had made many friends in ST
Louis, though. for he was very prosperous
there. The friends made every effort to !
prevent his being taken to New York,
They procured one writ after another and
1t was not until 1880 o clock on Wednesday
that the last one was discharged
and the prisoner was handed over to
Detective Cavane He hustled Scaglia
from the court room, followed by a mob
of his friends. and thrust him into taxi
cab. Then he jumped in himself and told
the driver to rush across the city and over
the river into Illinois. He kept on until he
arrived with his prisoner at Granite City.
Micelli had remained behind to delay
the friends as long as he could. and in
this he succeeded Not long after Cavane
and Scaglia whizzed over into the next
State Scaglia's friends appeared with an
other wcit, but it wac too late. Mioelli
joined Cavane at Granite City and they
caught the midnight train to New York