The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-06-10
FIRES ONE SHOT AND FLEEs
Bullet Narrowly Misses Man and Buries
Itself in the Casing of Door of Che
Home Divorce Suit is Said to Have
Caused Shooting.

Louis Del Conte, a young italian wen
known on the West side of the city and
employed as night laborer at the
round house of the CHICAGO & North
western Railway Company, made an
unsuccessful attempt to kill his wife,
Mary Del Conte, at a house on the cor
ner of Garden street and Maplewood
avenue just after eleven 'clock this
morning. Del Conte fred ore shot at
the woman. The bullet went wild of
the mark and buried itself i, door
casing. Without waiting to see the re-
suit of the shooting Del Conte fed
from the house and made good his es-
cape. Members of the police department.
were at the scene of the shooting with
in few minutes after the shot had
been fred. They found Mrs Del
Conte in a hysterical condition and un-
able to give any information as to the
whereabouts of her husband. "He went
that way the woman shouted point
ing to the back door and she could
give no more information. There may
have been people in the Italian quarter
who knew where Del Conte went but
if there were they kept their own
counsel and up to late hour this af-
ternoon the searching police officers had
'ouna otiling IA Ftalian with MUIR
der IL lis heart MrsaDel Conte was
very nervous and If was declared that
her fright had been SO great that it
might be necessary to send her to a
hospital
The domestic trouble which resulted
in the shooting this morning had been
of long standing Del Conte, who has
borne a good reputation among the
Italians Of the city, had lived with his
wife and two little children at 557
Jenne street. During the past few days
Mrs. Del Conte had filed a suit in the
municipal court asking for divorce
and she had left the Jenne street house
and had gone to the home of relatives
at the place where the shooting took
place. Del Conte had .been ordered to
pay small sum for the support of the
children and for attorney S fees pend
ing the hearing of the suit for divorce.
He objected strenuously to making
these payments and had announced in
court that he would contest the grant
ing of the divorce. He made counter
charges against his wife and for this
reason the home on Jenne street was
broken up and the wife and her chill
dren had sought refuge with relatives.
Tt is said that the open break came
when Del Conte objected to his wife
receiving visits from one of her cousins
at the home There had been no
meetings between Del Conte and his
wife save in the presence Of attorneys
for some time This morning after Del
Conte left his work at the round house
he is alleged to have met an Italian
from Racine and the two were seen to-
gether as they walked toward the house
on Garden street. The Racine Italian
waited while Del Conte went around to
tho rear of the house and entered the
kitchen where his wife was at work.
There was not a word spoken. Del
Conte drew the revolver from his
pocket and fred. Mrs. Del Conte fell
to the floor in swoon and evidently
the husband left the house believing
that he had killed her. It is claimed
that the two Italians went away to-
getIler and it is said that they hurried
over to Grand avenue.
District Attorney Drury, who repre-
sented Mrs. Del Conte in the suit for
divorce, alleged after the shooting thst
there had been no cause for the jeal-
Gus rage of her husband. He asserted
that Del Conte had come from Southern
Italy while his wife was from one of
the Northern states and that there had
been little in common between them.
He admitted that husband and wife
had quarreled often over the visits Of
people to the house. 1t is thought
possible that Del Conte went to Racine
and the Racine police were instructed
to make an effort to secure his arrest.