New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-04
SLAYERS TRY TO FORCE .
CITY TO BURY CHILD
Murderers, at Revolver Point,
Compel Undertaken to
Take Body to Morgue.
TRACED TO FLAT IN BRONX
Little Girl Beaten to Death in
Home-Strange Story Told
of Actions of Man
and Woman.

After making an effort TO dispose OF
the body OF a three-year-old girl without
death certificate and to run il through
the Harlem morgue to the Potter's Field,
an Italian man and German woman
disappeared from a fat at No 760 Fox
street, The Bronx. last night When the
police succeeded in tracing the origin II
the little body TO the fiat, they found
that the inmates had fed, with every
sign of precipitate haste. Correspondence,
photographs and firearms were left in the
place.
An autopsy performed by DR.. Riegel-
man. attached to Coroner Ely's office. re-
vealed that the child was killed by hav-
ing its head pounded against wall or
floor. thus causing hemorrhage OF the
brain. 1t was learned also that the chill
had cried at night and that IT was beaten.
The body was brought TO the Harlem
morgue at O'Clock yesterday afternoon
by Ralph Pasqua, who is an undertaken.
of No 224s First avenue.
The superintendent Of the morgue, John
Moran asked for the death certificate.
Pasqua urged him for once 10 send tho
body along TO the Potter's Field and be
I content to get the certificate afterward.
Moran told Pasqua that he must supply
the certificate. Pasqua called Up on the
telephone later and said he had mislaid
the. certificate. He renewed his request
that the body be buried. Again Moran
told him that he must produce certih-
cate.
Soon thereafter man appeared AT the
morgue carrying a large black bag. He
said he represented Pasqua. and had
come 70 take away the body OF the child.
II Moran had known that this was the
man for whom the police would be
searching the country In a few hours he
might have acted differently But he was
content to refuse the request and let the
man go awSy. He had already informed
the police OF the strange behavior OF
Pasqua, the undertaken. and detectives
were on the way to the Fox street fiat.
The charge Of removing body from one
county to another without a permit was
made against Pasqua. and he was arrest
ed and taken to the office Of Coroner Ely.
He was very much afraid TO talk and
threw out a good many hints about the
Black Hand and big revolvers that had
been held at his head. After long and
severe grilling he consented 10 tell all
that he knew He said man named
| Joseph de Puma told him TO come 10 his
place and take away the body of still
! born child.
When Pasqua went in a wagon. with
his assistant, James Sconotercoro. he was
/ Mortified TO find that through an opening
| in box that De Puma showed him he
could see the body of child OF three.
! De Puma, he said. held a revolver at his
/ head and he took the box and put II IN
/ his wagon. Then. he said, De Puma told
him 10 drive down the Southern Boule-
ward to the morgue. and to be very care
full that he didn't take another road. Pas
qua complied and said that he was FOL
lowed all the way by De Puma and Two
other men and a woman In trolley car.
The woman looked like the little GIRL
Pasaua said, and he thought that she
must be her mother. The detectives came
TO the same conclusion from photographs
of a woman that they found in the nat.