The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-09
man SHOOTS GIRL
| WHO SPURNED HIM
land KILLS HIMSELF
She Is Dying From Bullet
N Wound After Last Re-
n fusal to Wed.
THOUGHT HIM INFERIOR
4 He Holds Picture of Her as
n He Fires Three Times
Y at Himself.

Josephine De Francisco. q pretty little
italian girl, IL dying In the Hudson
Street Hospital from a bullet wound in
her left temple. In her own homo the
body Of Apostolus Polite. who loved her,
10 stiil lying where II fell. waiting to be
moved to the Morsue.
Pol!ts was a sponge cutter, hard work.
ins. sober. and saving of his money.
Some mothers on the east side had their
daughters set their caps" for Polits.
for they deemed him q good "catch."
But along James street. opposite Chat
ham Square. where the italian colony
10 strongest, Greeks are held In disfavor.
The proud sons and daughters Of Italy
hold the Greeks to be their interiors and
they DO not look favorabiy upon q mar
riags with q Greek.
Mss De Francisco lived VITA her mar
risd sister. Mrs. Diacomina De Mario, in
. little four-room apartment on the
sixth floor Of the tenement house at No.
GO James street. She worked In a sweat
shop BY day and carried homo big bum
dies of work by night. that she might
increase her earnings. As she passed
through the streets of Little Italy her
beauty attracted attention.
Politz was one OF those who was at
tracted. He used to carry her packages
for her. The girl accepted his atten-
tons without feel!ng-he was a Greek.
and therefore ought. she felt. to carry
her bundles. Love never entered her
mind.
she WAS SHOCKED BY HIS LOVE
MAKING.
Finally Politz went to board a year
and half ago with the De Marios that
he mieht be near Josephine. He did not
speak to her OF love until recently. Then
he began paying marked attentions TO
the girl. lie took her to the moving
picture shows and twice ne took her 10
Coney. Then he poured his fervent
love into her ear. She was shocked,
she, an Ital.an. expected to DO loved by
the Greek, but she expected that love
to take the form OF worship from afar-
a Greek was not her equal
Finally his ve-maiSing tired her and
she told her brother Paul. Tho italian
youth was plain spoken. lie told Polite
his love-making must cease. His sister
an Italian. could never give herself to a
Greek.
In the kitchen OF the little nat. wrap
ping a package OF clothing sho was tc
rake back to the sweatshop. Mrs. DE
Mario, with her three-year-old child
was In an adjoining bedroom. Politl
came from his roo.u and went 10 tn,
kitchen.
"How about II this morning. Jose
phine" Mrs. DE Mario heard him say
II gave you my answer some tim'
ago." the girl replied petulantly
There was a shot, and Miss De Fran
cisco fell to the floor. shot through
the head. Politz ran to the front o.
the fiat, where he seized q picture O.
his sweetheart from the mantle. Hold
ing It in his left hand. he fired tw,
bullets into his mouth. But they dix
not kill him.
Mrs, De Mario. frightened, hesitate,
before she opened the door OF her room
As she did SO she saw Polits. bloc,
streaming from his mouth. walking
back to the kitchen. The blood staine,
picture Of the girl was In his left hand
the pistol In his right.
"Stand back or you'll get the same.
he hissed to her. Then he re-sntere
the Kitchen. There was another sho
and when Mrs. Do Mario sammons
enough courage 10 enter the room sh
found Polits lying dead. his body pros
trate across the form OF the girl. Mis-
De francisco was conscious, but unabl
to push the dead body from her own.
Policeman Lowy OF the Oak street sta
t,on pulled Politz's corpse off Miss u
Francisco and sent her TO the Hudso
street Hospital, where DIR. Shields De
clared she could not live through tn
day.
paul De francisco was notified. I
rage, he stood before the body Of tn
dead man, biting the knuckle Of his frs
Angsr--the italian sign OF revenge. ~
.af axann hA aid, and walked away.