New-York tribune., 1911-10-25
WOMAN KILLED WITH
RAZOR IN STREET
Husband of Victim, Caught After
Exciting Chase, Says She
Committed Suicide.
THREE BOYS LEAD PURSUIT
Were Playing in Park When
They Heard Cry-Women in
Crowd Which Fights
TO Get at Him.

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A woman. said by the police TO he Mrs.
Kate Ferrone. who lived in a suburb Of
Philadelphia, was sashed to death with
n razor last night i'm Colonial Park.
Bradhurst avenue and 146th street. The
police are holding her husband. Joseph
FerrOne, who was caught after an eX-
citing chase through the street a tene-
ment house and back yards. lie de-
cl,res his wife committed suicide.
Three boys, Richard Tee. Of No. 80
West 1f5th street; Thomas Tyrell, of
No 3l3 West 14jth street. and William
Lille. Of No. 12S Bradhurst avenue,
We're playing in the park shortly before
I o'clock last night. At that point there
is n street lamp which throws its feeble
rays I'm a small circle
One of the boys looked mp and saw
man and woman walking past
within a few feet Of them. The two
were quarrelling violently. according TO
the boys, the man gesticulating wildly
with his hands and speaking rapidly in
Italian. The woman appeared frightened
and murmured i'm protest at intervals.
When the couple had walked down the
street about half a block the boys saw
that man and boy were following
directly I'm the path Of the first couple,
although they gave no indication of be-
ing with the man and the woman
The boys temporarily forgot the angry
Italian and the woman with him, and
continued their game. When the woman
shrieked however, the BOYS looked up
hastily and We're just IN time to see a
razor blade fash i'm the light of the street
lamp. The next instant they saw the
woman reel 10 the sidewalk and lay mo-
tionless on the ground while the man,
after a glance at her body, turned and
ran south on Bradhurst avenue
The boys rose to their feet. yelling
loudly for help. As they started to
run after the man. they We're Joined
by the man and the boy who had been
following the couple. All took up the
chase and followed the fugitive as he
turned east and ran through 14Gth
street The man was gaining ON his
pursuers and ran like deer until he
reached Eighth avenue.
BIG Crowd Joins Chase.
BY this time the hunt had attracted
at least hundred men and boys, whose
shouts Of Murderer, stop him" had
attracted men at every step. Although
Ferrone was getting winded now. he
succeeded i'm gaining enough of a lead
on his pursuers to dart intO the hallway
of the tenement house at No 2I3J
Eighth avenue. He ran through the
hallway TO the rear and then lcaped
through a window into the cellar
From the cellar the fugitive dashed
through the doorway and out into the
rear yard Fcrrone then vaultcd a high
board fence and dropped into the yard
Of No 2733. The crowd, coming into
the ward a moment later searched about
Cor him. but could not find him in the
darkness.
several patrolmen had joined in the
chase. and one Of them. Agnew. of the
West 1j2d street station. obtained Ian
tern and made a careful search Of the
ward. Not finding FerrOnc there. he
climbed over the fence and walked into
the cellar
lust as Agnew Was about 10 give up
the hunt. he detected = slight movement
behind a clothesline pole in the rear of
the yard. He went forward with drawn
revolver to inVostigae and when within
few feet of the pole saw a man be
hind il. Agnew grappled with him. but
he made no resistance
Cry Of Lynch Him" Spreads.
The crowd. among which were many
angry women. was still waiting I'm front
of the house and when the patrolmen
appeared I'm the doorway with their pris-
onor one man yelled Lynch him. and
tho cry was taken up by a hundred
voices. Fcrrone covered in the patrol
mems grasp
II was necessary for the police to beat
hack the crowd with their clubs before
tbcv could get their prisoner to the pa
,rol wagon. At the station Ferrone
cave his name to the police and said his
home was at No. 10 East Sth street. He
a,so said he was employed as a porter
ot saloon. and that he had been sep
Grated from his wife for about "A year.
According to Fcrronc. he recently
c,uud his wife near Philadelphia. and
through a man friend had arranged 10
meet her last night at Bradhurst ave
,.,c and HIN street. when ne hoped 10
,0ect reconciliation. Instead. he said.
hi. wife refused 10 have anything TO
do with him ana told him that it he
,.orsistcd in annoying her she would
shoot him and herself.
While they were talking. said Fer
his wife suddenly drew a razor
Coon, her waist and drew the blade
ross her throat lie ran because Of
40 crowd that chased him. according
his statement After Ferrone had
Zen locked mp the police returned to
40 spot where Mrs. Ferrone's body lay.
,c,er a search they found the razor
,jng about forty feet from the body.