Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-03
NEWARK SLEUTH
CAUSES ARREST
|. IN K|NGSLAND FIRE
He Bares Threat of
S0rrentine, Held
as Suspect.
RELATIVE OF INCENDIARY !
VICTIMS GETS INFORMATION
Probe Will Be Held by Pros-
ecutor Into Tragedy and /
Delay. /

Upon the evidence gathered BY
Special Officer Vincenzo Pozzo. of 9h
stone street, this city, Michael Sor-
rentine, baker, was arrested today
in connection with the Kinesland
fire in which Mrs. Rosie Barbara ana
six of her children were killed.
Chief of Police Michael McIntyrs
has been looking for him for two
days. He was captured in Brooklyn
and brought to Kingsland, where he
will be questioned.
Unless his story is convincing he
will be charged with arson.
At Home of Uncle.
Barbara, still Ill with anguish, and
the only other survivor. his 14-year-
old son, Joseph. are staying in New
ark with Pozzo. who was Mrs. Bars
baro's uncle.
Pozzo asserts that he has witnesses
who heard Sorrentine make threats
against Barbara before the fatal FIRE.
calling upon the saints to witness
that he would give Barbara and his
wife and children cause to cry
"As soon as heard about the fire,"
he said to an Evening Star reporter
today, II went to Kingsland. I'm
the only relative Barbara has in tfis,
country.
i've been investigating the fire, and
If the police do not arrest Sorrentine,
Immediately, I will appeal to the,
prosecutor, or 1t will be too late. He
will get away.
Fire Was for Revenge.
'It was for revenge, this fire. The.
bakery in Kingsland is owned by
Rocco j. Pullzzo. He gave Sorren-
tine the chance to run 1t, but the;
man did not make good. He never
turned any of the profits over to Pull
izzo and Pulizzo finally put him out.
Then Pulizzo came to Barbara, at
40 Cutler street, here in Newark, and
told him he could have the bakery
free until he started making money.
and then they would share the
profits.
For a while Barbara employed
Sorrentine, who was filled with rage.
Then Sorrentine asked for more
money Barbara wouldn't give 1t to
him and he quit. He went to work
for a rival bakery.
Threatens Revenge,
He told his friends that he would
get square with Pulizzo and Barbara.
4 will make him and his wife and
babies cry, he said.
He was going to leave Kingsland
and go back to Brooklyn on Saturday
or Sunday But l found several men
who say they saw him in Kingsland
before the fire and right afterwards
The turpentine can, whose stopper
was found nearby, came from a
Brooklyn store"
Barbara and his son are destitute.
The baker carried an accident policy
in the International Relief Associa-
ton, but he has allowed the payments
to lapse Pozzo. himself has a wife
and six children to support.
George Smith. chairman of the
Union Township Committee: Chief
Mcintyre and probably Prosecutor
Wendell ]. Wright or his assistant.
John A. Zibrisle, will hold an in
vestigation tonight In Odd Fellows
Hall, Kingsland.
The delay of the flremen will be
probed and Policemen Ringwood and
Stemm will be questioned as to
whether or not the woman and her
children could not have been saved
by those who first arrived on the
scene. She died within a few feet of
! window, while her husband was
frantically calling for someone to
rescue her.