The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-05-07
DECLARES He IS INNOCENT
Brought to Kenosha Sunday Night and
Promptly Identified as Knife Wielder
by Dominick Petrosia His Alleged
Victim-Po Seek Motive.

Joseph Molinero, nineteen years of
age and Kenosha man, was taken
into custody in Chicago on Sunday and
brought back to Kenosha Sunday night
to answer charges of attempted muir
der. Molinero is charged with having
plunged knife into the face of
Dominiek Petrosia at the corner of
Brockett and Pearl streets on last
Sunday morning. Molinero reached the
city lookup here late Sunday night in
charge of Chief of Police O'Hare who
managed to smuggle him out Of Chi
cago before he demanded extradition.
He entered vigorous denial to the
story that he had been connected with
the cutting but after he was brought
to Kenosha he was taken to the Ke-
nosha hospital and he was identified
by Petrosia as the man who had
done the slashing.
Petrosia insisted that he could not
be mistaken in his man and he declar-
ed that he had plainly seen the face
OF Molinero at the time of the assault.
Molinero admitted that he knew Pc
trosia, but declared that he was in
Chicago at the time the cutting took
place. When Molinero was searched q
knife was found in his pockets and this
knife had blood stains on the blade.
Molinero according to the story told
by the police department., fed from
Kenosha on Sunday morning after the
stabbing and he had been in the
Italian colony about Taylor street in
Chicago ever since that time Several
days ago the police chief received a
tip which declared that the italian
was in hiding in Chicago, but when the
detectives from the Chicago bureau
were called into the case they failed
to get any line ON the man. Tony
Pingatore, a Kenosha deputy sheriff,
volunteered his services for the case
and working uPder the direction of
Chief O'Hare he arrayed himself as an
Italian workingman and went to Chi
cago to search for Molinero. His
search was rewarded on Sunday when
he met the former Kenosha Italian on
the street He at once notified Chief
Q Hare and then he kept his eye on
the fellow until the chief arrived. F..
Molinero has lived in Kenosha for
the past nineteen years. He has re-
Gently been employed at the plant of
the Chicago-Kenosha Hosiery Company
and when the police sought him after
the cutting affray it was discovered
that he had left the city and had left
without drawing the pay coming to him
at the hosiery plant. Molinero refus-
ed to say why he had left the city
without drawing his pay and declared
to the police that he had been seek
ing work in Chicago.
The police have not been able to
find any motive for the attack on Pc
trosia and the injured man has been
very reticent in talking about the as
sault. He seems to be in constant
fear that he will be the victim of an
other assault. His injuries are very
painful and his condition is such that
it will probably be some time before
he leaves the hospital. Molinero was
questioned by the district attorney this
afternoon and he will probably he
taken into the municipal court for a
hearing late in the day. It is probable
that a continuance will be demanded
by the state until such time as Pc
trosia is able to appear in court.