The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-06-09
LEAPED TODEATH
|NASTRA|T JACKET
FR0MATUGB BOAT
Finding of Body Reveals Trag.
edy of an immigrants Death
Not Reported to Police.

No one In this country. except psrhppS
friends Of vi.tcrlo Martlneill. wh1
themselves are ignorant Of his fate,
knows whether Nartinslii left q wife or
Youngsters when he sailed away from
Italy several weeks ago 70 seek HE
fortune In this country. But II a vito
and children are waiting In Italy to
hear from the husband and father they
must be wondering why Martineili has
not written and told them Of the won.
dsrs Of the now country. .,...
They do not know now mat Martineili
can never writa They do not know
that he leaped In . strsitjacket on tho
deck Of the tug boat John Nichols when
the nsws mat ne was to be .sportsd
had erased him on May 81.
The unfortunate immigrant, on his
va, from Enis Island. the nearest no
had approached the shore he sought,
sprans from the craft that was bearing
him TO the La veioce liner America.
AAnacled ~ no was. Martinelli n re-.
ported to have fought desperately
against deportation, ana It was only
sftsr . struggie. In which he foilsd
every effort Of his attendants to save
him. that the man finally reached the
rail And leaped into the rivsr. VITA .
strAiuackst pinning his arms to his
sides he had no chance for life, but
sank like piece OF lead.
They tried to rescue him, but when
they had failed the immigration suthori.
ties did not report his loss to the police
OF this city or Of any OF the New Jor.
sey river towns. Ihstesd Ellis Island
notified Washington through the rsgu-
las channels, and 80 what chance there
might have been to recover Martinelli's
body by an immediate search was lost.
But last night. eight days after Mar
tineii Jumped over the side Of the John
Nichols, Capt. william Ronk Of the
Laokawanna tug Madison found the
oody OF . man attired In . straitjackst
floating In the Hudson Oh pier No. g..
Hoboken. lie carried Il ashore and
left It In the Hoboksn MorguA
Morning newspapers carried stories Of
the hndtng OF the body and Of the ef-
forts Of the police to Identify II, but
the immigration folk. II they read, kept
silent. When an Evening World reporter
asked Commissioner william williams.
who has resigned and whose term viii
expire on the thirteenth Of this month,
about Il. the Commissioner merely 70.
piled that he had received mo ofiiclal
notice.
Superintendent Baker Of Ellis Island
also had had mo official notice" He
finally consented to search his records
and at last disclosed the name OF the
unfortunate immigrant who had jumped
| overheard. but he professed himself
unable to tell where ne had come from
or what boat he had come on.
But you have sent some one to Ho-
boken toAdsntify the body there. haven't
you:" he was asked.
Mr.. Baker shook his head ana then
explained patiently as though the fac
should be obvious without question:
you see VIC have had no ofiiciai mott
hcatlon. No ono has asked up to iool
at the body"
And 70 there may ba wife and there
| may he children wondsrins and worry,
Inc about the husband and father, bu,
until some one yives Ellis Island "offi,
| cisl notice" the body In the IoookeE
morguc, which seems almost certsinl,
that Of Aartinelli. Will remain vnldsnti
fled and the mans family. " they lears
OF his fate a. ALL Will learn simply
that ne jvmesa svsrbesFd ana ~ bsdi
Vas loot as, li5 "a