The Washington herald., 1912-10-28

the Cavalier Achiilo Rotondo might have
q funeral a. near suitable to his rank a.
sbe could provide.
This was . year ago. Jennie Rotond0.
the widowed bride, sat in her meagsriy
furnihhsd room In East 11Sth Street, near
First Avenue, and made plans for fu-
ture that looked dark.
Several days paused. during which she
occasionally entered coffee house kept
by one Amadio Buonomo. In 1l4th Street.
Although she conducted herself at all
times becomineiy. she attracted the At
tention of Joseph Buonomo. . brother
Of the proprietor. To the latter she had
told OF her plans to return to Sena
after she had earned enough money to
bring back with her the remains Of her
dead husband. that he might be proper
ly inferred with the ashes Of his fore
father In Caserta- e
Joseph Buonomo was q white slave
trader. but there was nothing In his ap-
pearance or manners to betray his de-
spicable business. and Jennie Rotondo
felt that perhaps she had found friend
and adviser among the strangers who
surrounded her.
1t was his promise to show her how
she might quickly amass the funds nec-
essary to accomplish her dearest hope
that induced her to go to Chicago-how
no one knows. but the police declare her
motives. II not his. were Of the best.
Awakens to Fate.
Then came the awakening-a horrible
realization Of her plight. But 1t was too
late to retreat. The chains Of the slave
were upon her. and Buonomo was her
master Death threatened in most hor-
rible forms was the lash that held her
in check when her better self struggling
to the front caused her to try to burst
from her bondage. And irony Of her
fate Cavalier-Jennie Cavaiisri-was the
name bestowed upon her.
Then came the moment when the gtri
began to feel that even death would be
preferable to the life that had been
thrust upon her.
Some form Of expiation. she felt. alone
would save her from the scorchins pun
ishment that her religious training had
taught her would be hers IL she failed
in her penance- An opportunity to
show her remorse and repentance was
all Jennie, widow of the Cavalier Achil-
10 Rotondo. needed.
The opportunity came when an agent
of the Law and Order League. which
was making a vigorous crusade against
vice in Chicago, met her, and II did
not need much urging to enlist her as
a silent crusader. spy In the camp
Of the white slavers.' whom the Law
and Order League was trying to bring
to justice.
Chicago joe" the name by which
Buonomo was known In his haunts Of
the Chicago underworld, became sus-
picious.
Learns Of Mans Record.
Tn the meantime Jenpte bad learneA
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 interfered with Buonomo's
efforts to recruit girls from the ranks
OF mill workers in that town. She knew
that he was familiar with the interior
OF a prison in New York City for
brutaliy attacking with a knife an old
man who had protested at his activities
in an East Side tenement She knew
that. although Buonomo was in Jail at
the time, the son OF the man. who was
police officer OF the city. was shot
to death at u3th Street and First Ave-
nue.. His murderer was never caught.
but she had reason to believe that
Buonomo had steadied the hand that
caused the murder.
Buonomo knew that Jennie knew all
this. and il only needed a cleverly pre-
pared story to make Jennie Cavelieri
think she was going to gather evidence
for her law and order league to get her
to accompany Buonomo on a journey
East The story of the ending Of that
journey is part OF the police records and
the closing chapter in the tragic life
story of Jennie Girmellima, widow Of the
Cavalier Achillo Rotondo.
Perhaps as she stood in the shadow Of
the lonely woods near Stratford, await
ing the bullets Of Buonomo and his fel-
low assassins. she thought Of the death
which they thought was a penalty, as a
requiem to the wearied slave whose
shackles had at last been removed.