The evening world., 1913-08-16
Brooklyn Man Who Stabbed
Mate to Death Found
Escape Impossible.
BEGGED AID IN VAIN.
Unable to Sleep, Police on His
Heels and Penniless, He
Kills Himself.

"en WIZ VVO1 VOtbon IN butIot
street. Brooklyn. and died . few hours
later In the Holy Family Hospital was
idsnt:Hsd early to-day - 0astano Lom-
bardo. . fugitive beng sought by Dc.
tectives all over the Greater City for
the murder Of his wife. Mariana. In
Fifty-eishth street. Brooklyn. last Wed.
nesday night.
His suicide revealed the fact that he
ives one OF the few bad men" in New
York who had absolutely no friends.
Close pressed by detectives. he had been
unable to siesp ever since he plunged q
knife into his wife's breast. There was
no retreat to which he could 60 for
refuge. no person who would lend or
give him . penny to aid him In getting
out Of the city.
Scores Of detectives we're after him
Among the most persistent were Fay
and McDonough OF Brooklyn Head
Quartera At one time late yesterday
they were only tive hours behind him.
ana would have caught him without fail
during the early night. They had one
Of his Fourteenth street haunts covered.
. place In the Bronx where he was
wont TO 90 for aid was watched, and
alert men were waiting for him In all
the italian colonies.
TRIED IN VAIN TO BORROW
FROM EVERY ONE he KNEW.
After makinEs.a futile plea to one
acausintancs for funds yesterday. he
declared that ne hadn't slept a wink
since no had q little trouble" He had
tried TO get money from every one he
know. but no one would heed his ap.
peals. Among the scores Of men and
women ne knew In the underworld, not
one would take q chance" on Q man
who had brutality murdered his wife.
Lombardo seems to have fitted des-
perately about from place to place. leav.
Ing . trail for the detectives. but al.
ways contriving to keep Q little ahead
OF them.
About s O'Clock last night crowds re.
turning home from work saw q smooth
shaver. well-dressed Italian walking
along Butler street. lie stopped occa.
sionally In doorways to look furtively
aroupd. and then hurried forward. lie
| seemed to be expecting some one to
steal up behind him and take him b.
surprise. When in front Of No 233 he
took = small wooden box from his
pocket. swallowed Its contents. wake ed
forward a few PAGES. and fell uncon-
scious.
DR.. Cotter took him to the hospital
where he died before midnight. The
! only label on the box was Poison -
There was nothing left In It except a
few hecks Of the poison. which the doc
tor thinks was bichloride OF mercury.
eRoTHER.iN.lAW IDENTIFIES
sLAYER's BODY.
The police found In his pocket an old
receipt for rent paid for a fiat In Easl
One Hundred and Seventeenth street
made out to "Lombardo." This was the
fugitive murderers name. and It wa,
the address where he formerly lived
They went to No. 1862 Fifty-eightr
street, where Lombardo's mother-in.law
lives with her son. Francesca Nangiovi
and had the latter accompany them e
the hospital.
"Its Lombardo" exclaimed Frances
CO. but he's shaved his mustacLe of"
| The brother-in-law said the famil!
wanted nothing to do with the body
so It probably will be buried In Potter
Field.
| L.ombardo's crime was unusually afro
clous. lie and his wife had been sweet
hearts In Palermo since childhood an
sixteen years ago were married. VI
slashed q man across the face In Ital.
and was given Ave years in prison. Hi
wife came to this country to get ava:
from him, but he found her after hi;
release. Finally she took him back. bu
Ave times had to leave him. Often h
waved knives and revolvers in front o
her face and threatened to kill her.
After she had left him the sixth tim
he demanded 10 he taken back again
She consented to meet him and talk
over but became afraid. When sh
left a train at Fifty-eighth street to q
to her mothers home. where she va
living. he came up behind her. She RAJ
when she saw him. but he caught he
and plunged a stiletto into her bod
time after time.