Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
COMES AS END
TO ELOPENENT.
Italian Runaways Found Shot
TO Death in Seventh Ave-
nue. House.
THREE-YEAR-oLD GIRL AS
WITNESS TO THE CRIME
Daughter of Woman Is Found
Playing Beside Bodies-Deed
a Suicide Pact.

Alphonse Cuomo and Antoinette
ciccu1o were found dead in bed in
an apartment at 125 Seventh avenue
today. They had been shot TO death
Il is believed Cuomo killed the woni-
an and then slew himself as the re-
suit Of a suicide pact
The tragedy is said TO be the sequel
Of romance that began two
months ago in Salerno. Italy,
and which resulted in the elope-
ment Of the pair 10 this city
four weeks ago. Cuomo was unnar-
ried. The woman is said to have left
her husband and three children in
Italy in order TO come here with
cuomo. She brought to America an
other child, Antoinette. three years
old.
When the tragedy was discovered
at o'clock this morning the child
was found in the room gazing at tbs
dead bodies. In her baby way. she
told the police she watched mamma
all night" The murder and suicide
we're committed about midnight. il
is believed.
In the opinion Of the police the
couple was prompted to end their
lives through the realization Of Their
shame and the fact that their secret
was exposed here Friends Of the
Ciccullo woman wrote from Italy TO
relatives here that she had cioped
with Cuomo.
Cuomo shot his companion a The
head. He then sent a bullet through
his own brain. The revolver was Of
foreign make and contained steel bal-
let's. Il was found clutched in
Cuomos hand
Edward A. Luigi, Of a Front street.
the Public Service Corporation. dis
covered the tragedy He had been
sent to the house 70 install 2 gas
meter. His knocking on the door re-
oeved no response
I Luigi then sought Mrs. Elizabekh
/ Toscnas.,-slse eorcupfes an adjoining
/ apartment Believing the couple 10
have gone out. Mrs. Toschas. by pull
int a staple opened a door which
connects the two apartments The
dead bodies confronted them. Nearby
was the little girl quietly playing
with the clothing Of her mother.
Word of the crime was Immediately
telephoned to the Second police pre-
cinct. Plainclothesmen Frank y.
ycik and Michael Goodwin were dis
pa tched to the house. They took
charge of the bodies until the arrival
of County Physician Mckenzie.
DIR. Mckenzie learned from August
cuono. Of As Garside street. nephew
of the dead man. that Cuon-a was
about thlrty-six yeane old. His COM
panion was of the same age. They
came here from Salerno. first touring
France. Cuomo. r is said. had
prosperous store III ifl.Salerno, When
they came to Newark Cuomo found
employment in the toy manufacture
ing plant Of J. Chem a. Co. In Har-
rison Most of his funds had been
spent in the trip through Europe on
the way to America Their money
had practically given out
Cuomo told relatives here he had
been married to his companion.
letter from the woman's husband re-
xealed the facts. however.
The couple was seen yesterday af-
ternoon around the house. They went
out last night taking with them the
little girl Neighbors say they re-
turned about II o'clock
AnEilour later Mrs Toschas who
lives in an adjoining flat, heard two
shots. She says she dismissed the
ma tier from her mind later when she
heard no commotion.
The child Antionette may be sent
back to her father in Salerno. For
the present she will be cared for by
Mr. and Mrs. August Cuomo. A re-
port of the child's predicament was
made today to the Children's Aid So
ciety with a view TO seeing if the
little one may not he deported.