The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-17

| Nnlle perhaps temporarily unDdlHncet
by brooding over i'll health, Angelo Bi
anchi, aged 36, of Montpelier shot ant
fatally wounded his mother, Mrs. Glenn
entina Bianchi, and then killed himself
at their home, 236 Barre street, this fore
noon. The young man is thought to have
died instantly, as a bullet pierced his
heart, but the woman fingered for about
three hours after she rushed out on the
piazza of her house and fell unconscious
across chair. The bullet passed through
her right lung. She died at 40 this
afternoon.
| No one in the neighborhood heard the
shots fred and nothing was known OF
the tragedy until Mrs. Bianchi was seen
| to run out of the house and then fall.
| That was at 1890 o'clock. Anton Cincic
was passing along the street at the time,
and he climbed to the piazza of the house
and with the aid of several Italian wom-
en- residing in the vicinity carried the
unconscious woman into the house and
laid her on a couch in the hallway.
Meanwhile Z. Prario, who conducts a
store Just across Barre street, and who
had also seen the woman fall, telephoned
to Mrs. Bianchi's daughter, Miss Selma
Bianchi, who is employed as a clerk in
the McCuen store. Physicians were also
summoned at once.
When Mrs. Bianch was carried into
the house, the body of her son, Angelo,
was found propped up in bed with a
bullet hole through the heart; and the
full extent of the tragedy was then real
lied for the first time. Near by lay
.32-calibre revolver, with two chambers
empty. Later, after the city authori-
ties had arrived, permission was given
for the removal of the body of the young
man to undertaking rooms.
DR.. NJ. r. Mcclure was the first ply
sician to arrive to care for Mrs. Bianchi,
and he at once expressed the opinion that
the woman had not long to live. A cas-
ual examination showed that the bullet
had passed through the right lung, but
whether the bullet entered from the
breast or from the back could not be
without further examination.
1t is probable that the woman attempt |
ed to flee when she saw her son with the !
revolver in his hands and that the bullet |
struck her in the back.
No sounds of quarreling were heard by
the neighbors, and nothing is known of
the events leading up to the tragedy. 1t |
is known, however, that the young man,
who was rapidly failing from consump |
ton, had been irritable and quick
pered; and some of the acquaintance of |
the family state that there had not been
the best of feeling on the part of the
young man toward his mother.
From the very first the woman's con-
iition was so precsrious that it was not
thought advisable to remove her to the
hospital. Therefore, a trained nurse
rom Heston hospital was summoned to
he house, where everything possible was
lone for her. Three physicians were in
attendance for time, DIR. Mcclure being
oon followed to the scene of the trag
sdy by Health Officer ]. w. Lindsay and
Dr.. w. r. Harkness. Chief of Police
connolly, States Atty. Gleason and May
IT Mitchell also came, while about the
louse was grouped a crowd OF awed spec
ators who watched the house in which
ay the stricken woman. The woman did
lot regain consciousness, and the details
f the tragedy were sealed with her |,
cath. Ia
Mrs. Bianehi was quite large property !
wner in Montpelier. as well as in Barre, 7
ghere she and her husband, Ambrogio {
lianchi, resided for many years. She
wned three large tenement houses in ;
Iontpelier and two in Barre. in addition {
o which she was building the large !
ouse on the Aldrieh farm between the q
wo cities. to replace the structure which
ras destroyed by fire some time ago. I
he head of the house died six years T
20. and since that time the son, Angelo, :
-ho perpetrsted the tragedy to-day, had i
OF worked, largely because Of i'll health, y
is said.
Mrs Bianchi was born in BeranO. SO
ears ago. She was married there in
s7S. and she and her husband came to
ie United States some wears after that. q
hey came to Montpelier in 1880 and :,
we'd for a time in Barre. For a time Il
-ior to Mr. Bisnchi's death in Barre SIX {,
sars ago he and Mrs. Bianchi had not II
we'd together, and Angelo lived with his
.ther in Barre. Another son, John, died q
. the age Of Is wears. n
Angelo was born in Bersno. italy. on
spt. 26 lSsI. and came 20 the United
.ates with his parents while he was a
ere bov. At the ace 81 ~ wears. be ~
gan to learn sfoneeutting In the plant IA
Jones Bros. in Barre. where the fam u
7 then resided He braRehed cut into "