New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-18
HER SHOTS RIDDLE
HOME And HUSBAND
Woman's GunpIay Punct-
ures Water Pipe and
SmaSheS Pictures.
JEALOUS SPOUSE
DYING IN HOSPITAL
Wifc's Confession of Struggle
for Revolver Solves Fifteen
Minute Mystery.

For Fifteen minutes yesterday after
noon q mystery confronted the police
Of the West Forty-seveuth Street sta
tiou. Then Mr.. Edith Cafiui unrav-
ellcd Il for them
Biuecoa's had been sent on the run
20 an apartment house al i54 West
Forty seventh street. Word had come
that there had been murder there.
fatrolmcn brennan and Nobi" jumped
right into the heart Of the mystery.
The front apartment on the second
foo. they found In sinister disorder.
Prints O. feet and hands were out
lined IN rod smcars upon the floors and
walls. Furniture was upset, rugs we're
awry and picture torn from The wal.
and smashed. An empty pcckctbook and
q torn bankbook gaping on the table
gave apparent evidence o. robbery.
From a burst water pipe came n JET that
had already flooded the rooms 10 the
depth O., thc threshold and was send
ing trichlc into The outside hall
Utter silence prevailed. Not a human
being dead or alive, was IN the rooms.
Inquiries among neighbors brought the
information chat an automobile had
driven of - top speed soon after the
muiled sound Cf shots had come from
the building.
Il was while the perplcxed patrol
men were strugg inG with this tangle
that Mrs. Catfiri, pretty and dis,raught,
ran breathicss into the station house.
81 shot n man" Sic Zaspcd and
dropped unconscious.
A dash Of water brought her 20.
While she lay in faint a telephone mes
sage came from The Polytechnic Hospital
that Frank Ca"ni, twenty-ane years
old. driver. had been brought there
in an automobile suffering from pistol
shot wounds in the groin and right
thigh. The doctors say thai he will die
at was my husband" broke in the
young woman. catching the drift of the
telephone conversation. Hes dead. He
tried to kill me, and turned the gun
on him.
Detective jeremiah Barber, after
talking - the wounded man and to his
vie. who was held a prisoner, pieced
the story together.
Eleven years ago Mrs. Cafini, then
girl OF less than twenty. WAS living with
with her parents in Bangor. Me. She
met Frank Cahini, handsome Italian
youth, who talked largely Of his family
and position. They were married. Mrs.
Cafiini soon discovered that whatever
her husbands family might be in Italy
his position in this country was not
such as TO give her all the comforts she
desired. Only her pride prevented her
from returning 20 her folks.
A few week ago Catfini underwent
an operation. When he returned from
the no pital. still weak. his natural
jealousy was sharpened. He accused his
wife of affection for another. Weeks
Of bitter quarrels followed. eliminating
yesterday afternoon in a hand-to hand
tussle.
Barber believes that Mrs. Caffini
seized the revolver in the belief that
her life was in danger IN the struggle
IT was discharged four times. One bull
let struck a water pipe and broke it;
another rcocheted and bruised Mrs
Caffini's breast, and the other two
struck he husband. She ran out, and
neighbors carried him TO an automobile
which happened TO be at the curb. In
il hew a. taken to the hospital.