The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-28
Asked Where Heart Was Located.

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tana, sat down and began fondling thu
gun.
Asked Where Heart Was Located.
Fontana says he told Scampini t
have done with his foolishness, but thai
the latter persisted in pointing the weap
on a his own temple. He asked Fontana
where his heart was located, and received
a Joking reply that it was on the right
side Whereupon, Seampini took a pen.
Gil from the table, raised his waisteoat
/ felt for a moment on the left side of his
body and then inscribed a circle on his
shirt, A half hour later one Of the steel
iacketed bullets had penetrated the mid
| die of the circle. Fontana says he con-
! tinued TO urge his friends to go home and
that Seampini talked continually Of his
msfortuues and then OF the kindness
which had always been shown him by
his father and mother, his brothers and
his sister. He seemed to be very low spir-
tied, Fontana told the authorities to-day.
The boys were sitting in two chairs along
the front end of the club room when
Fontana, remarking upon the time,
grabbed his hat, tossed Scampini's coat
into his lap and told him to go home"
Fontana says that Scampini turned the
gun toward his heart and nred just as he
uttered the words, go home" Terror
stricken, Fontana grasped his companion
by the arm and called him by name. The
only response was a momentary culver
ing of the body Fontana then screamed
for help as he ran downstairs to meet
Marchetti, Vitagliano and Bartelli on
their way home,
DR., Wark was the first TO view the
body and he said that death was instan-
taneous. Officer Murley arrived and in a
few moments he was joined by Deputy
Chief Gamble, who was in the north end
when the shooting took place. The gun
had fallen to the floor. With the arrival
of Grand Juror Wishart and Health Of
fcer oliver, permission was given to the
to remove the body. A few
moments before Deputy Gamble had no
titled John Bossi. close friend of the
Scampini family, who, in turn. aroused
the deceased's brother, Paul Scampini,
who lives on Smith street. Paul broke
the news to his parents, and father and
son were soon hurrying to the club.
ne utdt 10Y WAS bpiH III 'otit nay
%. 1898. and was, therefore, approaching
his 10th birthday. Besides his parents,
he leaves his sister. Miss Nellie Scampini,
who is employed in the insurance office of
NfcAllister & Kent and two brothers,
Paul Scampini and Charles Scampini. At
the time of his death, Romeo was stu
lent in the commercial department at
Goddard seminary where he began his
course in September He was a youth of
Industrious disposition and was interest
d in his work az the plant OF Comolli &
%. when an accident nearly fatal in its
Effects overlook him last spring For a
line II was feared that internal injuries
would he added To the leg fracture and
,ad arm bruise. but he rallied well from
lis confinement through the summer.
lis friends however, had noticed a
hange in his manner and bearing and
n the light OF what has taken place.
hey are firmly of the opinion that his
lhysiCa condition must have brought on
which in turn developed into
form Of dementia Young Scampini
vas very popular with his companions
nd the tragic circumstance surrounding
Is death are being mourned by a large
ircle of acquaintance. II
The funeral viii he held at the Scam
mi home. ; Seampini square. near Der
IN street. "wednesday afternoon III
clock. Interment viii be made in Hope
emetery.