New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
GIRL IN MANS CLOTHES
TO AVENCE HER WRONGS
East Side Policeman Captures
Strange Figure Armed with
MurderouS Knife.
SAYS SHE MEANT TO KILL
Prisoner Tells of Being Lured
from City by an Employe of
Her Father and Kept
Prisoner by Him.

\ munled figure, dartius in and out
Of darkencd Railways along First avenue,
between I09th and 10Th streets, last
night attracted the attention OF Patrol
man Weisenstein,.of the East 1O4th street
police station. who was standing on the
opposite corner. and he decided TO follow
the fitting form and sec what lay behind
such actions.
After going along just in the rear for
five or six doorways. Wcisenstein ran
forward and grabbed the figure suddenly
by the shoulders. The impact of his
hands Oh the shoulders Of the person
caused dark slouch hat to fall off. At
the same time deluse Of ink black hair,
longer and more luXuriant than any
mans. betrayed the presence OF a
woman. Weisenstein gasped I'm astonish-
ment as he pulled his captive around
toward the glare cast By gas lamp
and saw the face of a young girl
She was more than ordinarily at
tractive with the features Of a child, yet
she wore a mans brown overcoaL
dark suit Of clothes ana a pair of man
boots.
Under her right arm she carried
,one-b -bladed. dangerous looking knife. 1t
was almost as heavy and large as
Cuban machete.
When Weisenstein saw this he asked
the girl what she was doing on the street
IN such a costume and what she in
tended doing with the knife. The girl
appeared badly frightened. and she
could speak only broken English. Wei
senstein decided to take her to the sta
tion house. where she told a story 20
Lieutenant Hammond that sent the po-
lice on the hunt for a man named Genaro
Staracio who formerly worked i'm :.
horse clipping establishment run by the
girls father, at First avenue and 1O9th
street.
Says She Was Lured to New Haven.
The strangely dressed prisoner said
she was Annie ID. Ominici, seventeen
years Old of No 2126 First avenue, the
daughter Of Giulio Ominici. She said
she was visited in November in the
shirtwaist factory where she worked, on
Pleasant ?venuc 10y Staracio her
fathers helper. who bore a telegram,
supposedly from Annes mother, who
was then i'm New Haven, telling her to
go to that city Immediately.
Annie did not have sufficient money TO
carry her to New Haven, and told Star
acio her plight. The man, old enough to
be the girls father, told her he would
supply the money and would accompany
her TO New Haven. Annie needed no
further bidding and took the next train.
When they reached New Haven, she
said, Staracio took her TO cottage in
the outskirts of the city and into d room
on the second floor. There were no win
dows i'm this room. and there Staracio
drew a revolver and threatened 10 Kill
Annie unless she did as he bid her.
The girl said she had been kept pris-
oner in the room for twenty-eight days
by her captor, who showed sparse food
al drink through a trapdoor and
SpdT"u neT no lHulBHll!' iiV oi'oH HOiu
the revolver to her heart, she said, and
threatened to kill her II she tried To es-
cape.
Ultimately desperation led her Ia
chance escape she added. Staracio had
not been to see her for two days, and she
thought the opportunity was ripe With
an her youthful strength she beat upon
the door which locked her in until 1t
gave way beneath her weight.
once free, she ran down the country
road until she obtained food and money
from a woman in house several miles
distant. Then she took the first train
for this city and returned to her home
here. She told her father and mother
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