Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-16
TRA|LED ACROSS
SEAS AND SLAIN
10 AVENGE WOMAN
Nlontalbano Had Been
Pursued Here
from Sicily.
klDDLED WITH BULLETS
FROM AN AMBUSCADE
eountrymen Killed Him on
Promise Given at Wife's
Complaint.


zlLz-z4ea feud from the little town or
1Iontereale to Newark, are being
*shsft today for the murder of An
{enio Montalbano.
They wrecked vengeance upon MIN
shooting him down from the am
zuscade Of an alleyway between 80
Ia "a Bedford street Riddled with
Szllets. he was taken to the City
hospital, where he died in delirium,
s ci,rsing his assassins and calling
apon his relatives to avenge MIN.
The feud had its inception one
night last summer when MRS. Siu-
seppa Montalbano poured out pas
sionate recital of her wrongs 10 ner
kinsmen in Montereale- She told tnem
how her husband had amassed an
& Newark what her own countrymen
would consider small fortune, how
he had taken her on a visit to-ltaly
& and there left her and her two chill
8 dren to starve.
Mrs. Montalbano had been the belle
of the little Italian village. ana her
tale aroused the fury OF ner near
3 ers While the soft sound OF distant
& vasners fioated over Montereale, two
4 ~ tha men swore eternal vengeance
against her husband. 1t mattered nt-
tla whether the search took them
over the seas or years passed De-
fore its elimination. They hau
nledred themselves to slay Montai-
bano and that was sufficient.
Has Husband Arrested.
4 Unaware, it may be, that her nus
+ hand was marked for death, Mrs.
MontaIbano returned to America
three months ago. She had her nus
band arrested for non-support anu
when he was a-raigned IN lne rlIss
Precinct Police Court he was ordelea
"a nay her IS a week. This ne faiied
tozdo.
81 1verseer Of the Poor Baldwin pressed
the case and Montalbano was to have
appeared in court today to answer Tor
Aon-support.
The cnly clue to Montalbano's as
xassins is a 12-bore Belgium shotgun
3 with short barrels, designed for brush
hunting. 1t was found in the alley
wav. where 1t had been dropped
+ such a gun is rarely seen in this
+ country. and the police believe that
the murderers brought it with them
from Europe. Both barrels were fired
and the shells give evidence that
heavy buckshot had been substituted
for the smaller shot with which they
had been originally loaded.
AS soon as Montalbano was shot,
shortly after 8 o'clock last night, his
wife was arrested at 81 Prospect
street where she had been staying
for six weeks with natives of Mon
tereale. who had known her in her
girihood.
.May They Meet His Fate
She was taken to police headquar-
ters and grilled all night long by
Lieutenant Cordano. Maintaining
that she was innocent of all con-
nection with the crime. she protested
that she was as anxious as anyone
to have the slayers caught.
MAY the fate he met meet them, :"
was the Sicilian saying she repeated
again and again.
But the police are not so certain of
her professed lack of knowledge. Her
husband had made grave accusations
against her and would have at
tempted to substantiate his charges
in the First Criminal Court today had
he lived.
Mrs. Montalbano was TO have
moved today She told neighbors that
she had already rented two rooms for
herself and the children, Antonio. 6
years old. and Girardo, 8. She said
she had waited only until she could
buy stove.
The police will search her room and
steamer trunk for indications that
might tend to show that she had
brought the shotgun from Europe
herself. According to Girardo Lee
gare, her cousin, with whom she had
been living. she did not go out at all
last night
Montalbano. who was 81 years old
twenty years older than his wife
was on his way from his home, 443
Avon avenue, to visit his half
brother, Angelo Plia. at 10 Hayes
street
As he was walking north on the
east side of Bedford street near Fiji
teenth avenue he was shot down.
street Was Deserted.
No one was in the street at the
time. When Joseph Albano, who was
in saloon at SO Bedford street, ran
out he saw Montalbano on the side
walk, but not the assassins. Mrs.
Annie Fox, OF 70 Hayes street. in the
rear Of where the shooting took place.
says she saw two men scaling fences.
Plia, the victims half-brother. was
arrested, but later paroled. Mrs
Montalbano at first asserted that she
had not seen Plia for two weeks. but
Detective Sergeant Godfrey, of the
prosecutors office. later discovered,
It is said, that he had been visiting
her frequently. This she is alleged to
have finally admitted.
She is slated at headquarters as
Mrs. Giuseppa Montalbano, although
she was. known as Josephine. She is
being held as material witness.
County Physician Mckenzie per-
formed an autopsy at the City Hos
pital this noon. He found four bullets
in the mans body. on the right side.
Three of those had gone clear through
and the fourth was lodged in the
right hip Joint. According to the
county physician any one OF the three
ofhosts could have cofised <1enfh