The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-07-06

4 OF warning, he vas sitting beside the
frosted windows IN the rear; OF the 1T.
tie poolroom he maintained At 12S
Coles street. Brooklyn. when hes was
I:shot dead. y,
/ Quickly the police. reached the spot
Back across the yard whence came
the shot that had tkilled Giovanni went
1.-the police. straight TO q, house front
ing ON the next street. But there the
trail stopped.
But II the police did not know then,
they do now. that the Cardinellis
knew who had fred the shot. even
though they would not tell.
1T Is the work OF the Other" said
the, cardlnellis. The Other must
die"
Little Is known iust how much the
cardineals hare retaliated against
their enemies. Yet no great stretch
of Imagination 10 required to picture
the other side Of the story. -
Back no later than March Of, this
year a particularly sinister.iooling ST.
Gillian was found lying badly wounded
in the gutter Of street in the Latin
quarter ofst. Louis. In his body were
forty.three distinct knife wounds,
1t was days before the police Of, st.
Louis were even able to force the man
to tell bis name and admit that he
had come from New York. Other
than. that he would not tell. Why or
how he had, been injured. OF that lie
would not speak. Who had attacked
him2 He knew, but he would not tell.
81 know; and fix him." was all he
would say.
In due course OF time, thanks to
good nursing and a marvellous consti.
tuition, the man recovered and left the
hospital. The next day he disap.
peared, from st. Louis. II r
The cardlnelli Side.
Was that one incident In the other
side Of the Cardinelli vendetta7 The
police say It was. v
Were It not, how. ask the police,
did the CardinellIs in New York. know,
even before a word was published In
any newspaper, that the Other had
been stabbed forty.three times in a
street Of, st. Louis? For the injured
man was the Other. g.s
And then came the third warning to
the Cardinellis.
Bartholdl Cardinelli lived in mod.
est fiat house at S44 E. 21st street,
New York. Right next door lived his
father, his. mother and his brother.
Two years and more had passed
since the. death Of Giovanni. In the
interim the .Cardineilis had escaped all
harm The vendetta for them, ct
least, had apparently ceased to exist.
Stand then came the warning: Ss
"You'w1l die--at the window"
The message did not seem to inter.
ifere with Bartboldi's occupation as a
barber To and from his work he
went, apparently AS care.free ass any;
man could possibly be.
Bartholdi even dared to cit on the
front steps Of the, house In which he
lived in the early hours Of the even
sinss, But once he set foot across the
threshold Of his own home then all
was changed. There, and there only,
did danger Turk for him.
= For two weeks Bartholdi Cardinel-,
lis forminever showed at q window Of
his home, either by. day Or by hight.
And. then came-death. t-s '''''
The night was particularly hot. The,
small rooms Of the fiat were stuffy
and oppressive. Suddenly Bartholdi
rose from his chair. walked to the win
dow-fell back dead.
A pane OF glass lay shattered on
the floor and FIVE gaping wounds made
by as many crudely shaped slugs Of
lead showed in his body.
~ Nyefminutes after the shooting the
entire block was surrounded by po-
lice. Not house. not a roof, not a
cellar escaped. their search. but the
slayers were not to, be, found.
81 Murderers In Safety.
It was not difficult for the police
to trace the. source OF the shot. Al
most on line across the street from
the home Of Bartholdi, they located
the lair of.the smurderers. but the muir.
derers were gone, @ Tx
They had left behind them the gun
with; which the, crime had been COM
mitted. a. crude, old;iashloned shot.
gun. pile Of cigarette ashes. an emp.
ty bottle or two. and that was all.
vincenzo is still alive, francesca,
the father. Is. too. But 1t is not Fran.
cesca who is in fear He is. old and
his days are but few as 1t Is. But
Vincenzo! K
AS he stood by the casket In which
10y the body OF his brother. his cheeks
paled and his knees trembled at the
burden they bore.
II an the next, there Is no escape"
said the man. "'rhey who have. killed
three will return for Il fourth What
IS to happen will happen"
Know them? Yes, vincenzo believes
he knows who k:llod LIN two brothers
and his uncle. but Is the police he Will
say nothing They can do nothing"
he repeats over and over again, "and