Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-11-01
MURDER WIDOW Of
ITALIAN N0BLEMAN
BAND OF WHITE sLAVERs KILL
GIRL WHOM THEY CAUGHT
IN THEIR MESHES.
FEARED SHE'D TELL POLICE
Closing Chapter of Tragic Life Story
Of Young Woman Who Became
Fettered by Chains of Under
world ls Revealed.

New York City.-Jennie Cava-
iieri, who was decoyed to a lonely
spot on the outskirts of Bridgeport
Ct, and brutally murdered by the
agents of band of white slavers,
was the wife of an Italian nobleman.
Following clues found among the let
ters in the dead woman's baggage
Detective Frank Virelli of the Con-
necticut state police discovered that
she had been married in this city on
Sept. "a, 1911, to Cavalier Archillo
Rotondo. Her career was at once ro-
mantle and tragic. Jennie and the
Cavalier Archillo had been playmates
together in Seffa, a small town in the
province Coserta in the southern part
of Italy. His family boasted of de-
scent from the nobility who came to
Eighteenth century with the Bour-
bons Although the family OF the
youth forbade alliance, the young
couple pledged their betrothal.
In his native land, however, a cava-
lier Of the king could not soil his
hands with menial labor as he would
have to do to support a wife when
deprived of his patrimony, SO Archillo
came to America, leaving his bride
behind until he should be able to sup
port her Finally, after two years of
waiting, came the summons to join
him in the new country. Archillo had
not Jared as well as he had expected
during the two years, chiefly because
of his frail constitution, but he had ac-
cumulated sufficient of the worlds
goods to satisfy him that he would be
able soon to fit up home for his
bride. 1t was just about the time of
her arrival at Ellis Island that Achillo
began to show symptoms of dreaded
tuberculosis. Then when he fully
realized that the end was but
matter of hours away, he insisted
upon calling in Father Tofini that
they might be united, even in the
shadow of death. That day the
Widows weeds took the place of the
bridal veil.
This was year ago. Jennie Ro-
tondo, widowed bride, sat in her
meagrely furnished room in East
115th-st, near First-av, and made
plans for a future that looked dark
Several days passed, during which
she occasionally entered a coffee house
kept by one Amadio Buonomo in
114th-st. Although she coducted he
relf at all times becomingly she at
tracted the attention of Joseph Buo-
nomo, brother of the proprietor. To
the latter she told of her plans to
return to Seffa after she had earned
enough money to bring back with her
the remains of her dear husband that
he might be properly inferred with
the ashes of his forefathers in Caser-
ia. Joseph Buonomo was white
slave" trader, but there was nothing
in his appearance or manners to be-
tray his despicable business and
Jennie Rotondo felt that perhaps she
had found a friend and adviser
among the strangers who surround
ed her. He induced her to go
to Chicago-how no one knows, but
the police declare her motives, if not
his, were of the best. Then came
the awakening-a horrible realiza-
tion of her plight. But it was too late
to retreat. The chains of the slave
were upon her, Buonomo was her
master. An opportunity came when an
agent of the Law and Order league
that was making a vigorous crusade
against vice in Chicago met her and
did not need much urging to enlist
her as silent crusader, spy in the
camp of the white slavers."
Chicago Joe," the name by which
Buonomo was known in his haunts
of the Chicago underworld, became
suspicious. In the meantime Jennie
had learned, when he boasted in his
cups, that he, Buonomo, had served
time in prison in Connecticut for
shooting at Chief of Police Bromidge
of Thompsonville when he had in
terfered with Buonomo's efforts to re-
cruit girls from the ranks of mill
workers in that town. Then there
was the recent case of mick, the
Bum,' character of the underworld
who was shot on Oct. by Buonomo
because he would not give up his girl
and who died three weeks later in
New York whence he had been hur-
rleu Dy agents Oh tne WnlJe slave
band to avoid the agents of the Law
and Order league. Valuable informa-
tion pointing to Buonomo as the slay-
er of Mick, the Bum" could have
been given to the police by Jennie
Cavalieri; bnt no one knew this bet
ter than Buonomo. 1t had become a
matter of his life or that of Jennie
Eayalieri She was killed