The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-11-18
PUT POND MURDER
Up TO JEALOUS MAN
NOT WHITE SLAvERS
Evening World Inquiry Reveals
Domestic Rows In Slain
Woman's House.

oorters to-day appears to establish that
Dc white slave trafYic wap not involved
- the murder Of Carmciina osracca.
waoss body. removed from No. $40 East
fortieth street In q trunk, was found 4
wesk ago In . pond at BraDohviile.
Conn.
mat one Suicicia, called MONKEY
Dace." who was employed a. an asphalt
street pavsr. killed his wife with an leo
pick In . At OF jealousy and that the
woman's daughter. q boardcr named
salvatore lombard and another
boardsr. name unknown. having knowi-
sdgs OF the crime. aided In the futils
attsmpt TO dispose OF the body and fiel
with Suioicda to avoid the consequences
Clues to the whereabouts OF the fugi-
tlves lead to an upstate city. Deputy
Commissioner Dougherty 10 confident
that his men will get suicicia within
twsnty-four hours, but he Ii not SO
sure about lombard and the girl and
the other man who 10 wanted a. Q
. witness.
The Evening World learned to-day
that Suicicia, the woman, the girl and
lombard were we'll known In the
nsishoorhood Of the mousse In which the
woman was killed. The woman. Car
mciina Geracci. Is supposed to have
1eserted her husbans for suicicia some
yesfs aso. The girl. now about seven
te6n or eighteen, IL her daughter and
- named salvatrice Qeracci. She was
called "Turiddi."
About three years ago Suicicia, Car.
molina and the girl-then in short
ovesses-rented the second floor rear
nat At No. S12 East Thirty-ninth street
suicicia posed as the husband OF the
woman and the father OF tho girl, bu.
neighborhood gossip soon questioned
the relationship. Suicicia was insnneiy
Jealous OF the woman. and tho goAslps
say his suspicions were confirmed when
while he was on trip to Italy she ran
away with another man. leaving the
Girl behind.
The girl went TO work and mann sed
10 keep the fiat together until suicici1
returned from Europe. lie started out
70 hunt for the Geracci woman. found
her and brought her back. Thereafter
outcicia Kept very close watch upon
CArmelfna and beat her frequently.
ogAf WOMAN OFTEN TO KEEP
NGR IN Her PLACE"
woman. and the girl moved away. they
sStuFned n July ana rented nat in
the Thirty-ninth street house. remain.
mg untii the lattcr part OF October.
, xoighbors say that Suicitia folio wed
and watched Carmellina Geracci and
ooot her two or three times q week. for
sths purpose. he said. Of keeping her IL
her place.
When the euicicia group returned 10
Thirty.ninth street In July, the girl met
Salvatore lombard. q happy-go-lucky,
oood-lookinK young man who. with two
Srothers. worked In the aqueduct OK
cavation a. Forty.second street ana
0xth avenue. Salvatore fcll In love
with the girl. but confided 10 his friends
that he was unable to make much heaf-
Nay because OF the jealousy OF Suicicia.
"Old Monkey Face" Salvatore told his
friends. thinks am after his woman"
Salvatore was an insIstent wcoer and
auaiiy won the confidence OF Suicicla
HIM IN a. . border. On Oct. . the
family moved TO No. S1b East rortieth
street where Carmelina Geracci was
0urdered.
salvatore Lembardi announced on cleo
tien day. In the grocery store Of SAIL
vaAore JC1soniano. At No. 3l2 East
Eortieth street. that he was to marry
~1uri6df' Geracd In few days. He
haA been Injured In an accident on
Ang. In the shaft at Forty-seconi
street and Sixth avenue and said he
waD about to have a settlement OF =
suit for damages he had Instituted.
'As soon 40 I get the money" he am
bounced. I'VE are to be married and
GAaA take the girl away from old Non
NY Face and her mother"
9hs police are working on theory
that suiclcia applied the marriage plans
~ punching his wife's head full Of
holes with an fee pick and enlisting the
"a Of tho girl and the two ,boarders
n IN attempt 10 dispose Of tho body
The crowd had very little money when
The discovery Of the body in the Con-
nsct1cut pond made hieht necessary.