The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-10-22
HAD ORDERED MAN OFF FARM
Italians Protest Innocence Until Early
This Morning When Overweight
italian Boy Tells Story of Tragedy
and Defendant Admits His Guilt.
(From Mondays Daily.

(From Mondays Daily.
One of the most cold blooded muir
ders ever known in Kenosha county
took place in the town of Somers Just
after seven o o'clock Sunday morning,
when John Luss, sixty-fye years Of
age, was shot down in the door yard of
his house and instantly killed by
Luiggi Aulozz, an Italian hunter. The
entire charge from a twelve guage shot
gun entered the left breast of Luss,
almost tearing his heart out. Even
after he had received this terrible
wound, Luss attempted to struggle
with the Italian and managed to seize
the shot gun, but as his life ebbed
away the Italian grabbed his gun and
calling his companions, the party es-
capped The shooting was witnessed
by Mrs, Addie Jones, employed as a
housekeeper in the Luss home, who had
been called by Luss when the Italians
showed fight. A big bunch of suspects
were picked up by the deputy sheriffs
and police officers on Sunday morning
and afternoon but it was not until
early today that facts in the case
were brought out.
Following the arrest Of nine Italians
as suspects on Sunday morning and af-
ternoon, District Attorney a. L. Drury,
Sheriff F. w. B. Achen, Undersheriff
Nicholas Fonk, and Police Officer Tony
Pingatore, started work at eight
o'clock Sunday night in an effort to
get the facts in regard to the ruthless
killing of Luss and it was long after
midnight when the District attorney
heard Nuzio MARITIME, fifteen year old
Italian boy, sob out, cit was Louie
that shot him. I" This admission on the
part of the boy opened the way for the
barring of the secret of the killing and
later Aulozz made statement to the
district attorney, declaring that he had
shot Luss in an effort to save his father
whom he believed to be in danger.
Four Italians were held from the long
list of suspects picked up during the
day. The list included Luiggi Aulozz,
twenty years old, the defendant, who is
booked on a charge of murder; his
father, Philip Aulozz, Vincenzo Lucci,
who admitted that he was present when
the fatal shot was fred but who de-
clared that he had no part in the
shooting, and NuMo MARITIME, the
fifteen year old boy who revealed the
real story of the tragedy. Tony Mar
tine, his father, is sought by the Of
ticials and he is claimed to be in hid
ing somewhere near Libertyville, Ill.
Me was one of the members OF the
party, but he had nothing to do with
the shooting. The Italian boy was
brought in by Officer Pingatore on Sun
day night and the other Italians were
arrested by Police Officers Clausen and
Feldschau. When they We're taken into
custody luigi Aulozz and his father
both declared that they had been hunt
ing in the neighborhood of Woodwork
and at this time suspicion pointed
strongly to Vineenzo Lucci as the man
who had actually fred the shot. He
was identified by Mrs. Jones as one Of
the men present at the Luss farm when
the murder was committed, but he de-
MED all connection with the crime and
repeatedly insisted that he had not
been near THE Luss farm.
Late Sunday night after hours of
questioning young MARITIME gave up.
''It was your father that killed Luss y
shouted one of his inquisitors at him.
At this the boys eyes all but leaped
from their sockets and quick as flash
he shouted back, emo, no, it was
Louis" Then Aulozz was told that
the boy had confessed and without any
emotion he admitted that all Of his
former stories were false. He declar-
ed that at the time he shot Luss be
feared that the farmer was going to
kill his father. He alleged that Luss
had been very abusive to the Italians
and that he had attacked one of them
with Ehook' and had taken shot
gun from MARITIME. He alleged that he
had pointed this at Philip Anlozz, his
father, when he therw up his own gun
and shot him.
The shooting Of Luss caused the
widest excitement in the town of
Somers and within a few minutes after
the old man had been killed scores of
Somers farmers and armed themselves
with revolvers, rifles and shot guns and
had started out to scour the woods
about the Luss home for the Italian
hunters. Rural telephones were called
into use and before Sheriff Achen and
his big force Of deputies could get
their automobiles onto the muddy roads
the farmers of Somers had started out
to revenge the killing of one Of their
number. Not an Italian hunter was
found by the farmers or there might
have been more exciting story to tell
All Of the suspects were picked up
either by the police or the deputy
sherifs as they were slipping into the