New-York tribune., 1911-11-14
FINDS 3 SLAIN IN FLAT
Brooklyn TaiIOr's Wife, Mother
in-LaW and Child Shot.
SLEEPING BABY is SPARED
Woman's Brother, a Shoemaker,
Arrested on the Charge Of
Homicide.

A triple murder. the youngest victim or
which was a girl three years old. was re-
vealed Yesterday noon when Adolfo Lofaro.
a tailor. living at No 7S9 Park avenue, Will
iamsburg. arrived home and found his wife
her aged mother and his daughter, Rosina,
living dead in 2 bedroom with bullet
wounds i'm their heads. Lofaro had found
his front door locked when he arrived
home and had broken it open
The bodies. which were scarcely cold
had been dragged across the floor ana
thrown inside the bedroom. After an in
vestigation the police said they believed
the grandmother was killed first as she sat
working al a sewing machine near the
kitchen window Her married daughter
was then pursued and killed, after when
the SLAYER shot the little girl.
The first intimation the Park avenue
neighborhood received Of the Staying came
through she screams and cries of Lofaro
With a chisel which he borrowed from
the family on the floor below, he had
broken tho lock off the door leading into
the kitchen and entered. Before him. in
the midst Of the disorder Of overturned
chairs. Law his ten-months-od baby girl
around TO the right. her feet sticking out
of the doorway of the dark bedroom, lay
his aged mother-in-law Further away in
the shadows lay his wife The body of Ro-
sina Law across her grandmother's bre st.
Lofsro's cries brought tenants of the
house on the run. and the police at the
Vernon avenue station were notified. Pa
trolnan O'Reilly and Gilmartin were the
first on the scene. BY that time the cries
Of the husband and the news of the mur-
der had attracted so large a crowd that
reserve force of twenty men were sent TO
hold the curious in check.
Iofaro was taken in hand by the police
and closely questioned along with Saliva
tore Deomo. brother of Lofaros wife.
Neither could throw much light on the
murder. The only relative who could not
he found was Matteo Delomo. shoemaker,
who is also a brother of the dead woman.
Detectives who went to his shop, at No.
zoe Humboldt street found the place
locked. They then began systematic
search for him, covering every part of the
city.
Late last night he returned to his shop
and was arrested on the charge Of homi-
rue station. He was questioned closely by
the police. and they said they had obtained
some damaging admissions from him.
John Delomo. father Of Salvatore and
Matteo, died last July He left house in
Brooklyn valued at about $4,000 to his wife.
this property comprising his entire estate.
Salvatore told the police that Matteo and
others Of the family were on bad terms
and IL is a matter of record that on Sep
tember Il Matted was arrested and ar
raigned before Chief Magistrate Kempner,
of Brooklyn. on a charge of assault pre-
ferred by Lofaro. but was discharged. This
assault came about. according to LOfaro,
as the result of an argument over the dis
position Of the family estate.
Mrs Mary Jonosch, whose family occupy
the fat under that Of the Lofaro family,
told the police that Matteo had been in
the habit Of coming TO the house after
Lofaro had left for work. and that she had
often heard quarreling there. She saw
Matteo for the last time a week ago.
Mrs Jonosch said she saw Mrs. Lofaro
go downstairs TO the mail box yesterday
morning, take out paper and a letter, and
go back up to the fiat An hour later she
heard sounds of quarrelling, and then all
was still. No one in the house heard re-
VOver shot.
The police learned that s24 which Lofaro
left with his wife yesterday morning was
gone, hut ieWelry and other articles of
value were not touched.