The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-04
FUsCHO LAUGHED At STORY
Augustine, Milwaukee Partner of Frank
Fuscho, Tells How Latter Explained
Coincidence to Him-D Details Cores
pond to Those of Kenosha Murder.

W.
Italian who was murdered near Jeffrey
Park on Thursday night, September
goth, was strangely foretold even to the
minute details is the story which>is be-
ing related by several of the murdered
man IS friends and relatives today. The
| story in. brief as told by Kenosha Ital-
ians, is that one of the Chicago Ital-
ian papers published a story more than
week before Fuscho was killed that a
certain Frank Fuscho Of Chicago had
! been seriously injured when he was
shot twice in the head and twice in the
back. The account rs not substantiated
| by Chicago police records but several
friends and relatives of the Milwaukee
man, including his partner, Augustine,
, and his -one-time wife, Mrs. Frank Fus-
cho Of 1926 Congress street, Chicago,
have said that Fuscho read the account
and commented upon it.
The most authentic account Of the
strange coincidence comes from Angus
tine, Fuscho's Milwaukee partner, who
was in .Kenosha Friday to help in the
investigation Of the tragedy of last
week. He says that Frank Fuscho,
upon his return from one of his recent
trips to Chicago, told him how GER
tain italian, going under the name of
Frank Fuscho had been shot four times,
twice in the head and twice in the back,
as a result of an alteration with an
other italian. The Milwaukee Fuscho
laughed as he told the story and re-
marked that the man evidently wanted
to be sure of the. other italian s death.
The rest Of the Chicago story, as it is
told by friends Of the murdered Mil
waukee man, is that the two Italians
Gus wounds, were not fatally injured
and that the affair was strangely kept
out of the police records.
The story could not be corroborated
by reference to the italian paper, as
neither the name of the paper nor the
exact date of the edition is known. 1t
was, however, strengthened by the
statement of Mrs. Frank Fuscho, the
Chicago woman, who told her story of
her marriage to Fnscho in the coroner s
court Thursday. She also said that her
husband had told her of the Chicago
duel but had expressed no fear of it as
a presentiment of his own death. The
Kenosha authorities are sure that the
story is nothing more than strange
coincidence and have inferred from it
no idea that there could have been some
plot to do away with Fuscho ard that
this was a method of warning. The
similarity of the two stories has been
mystifying to the relatives and friends
of the murdered Italian, even though
the real foundation of it cannot be
shown,
At the Municipal Court House, the
interest in the murder case centered
Friday in the release of Frank CHA
petta on a writ Of habeas corpus. CHA
petta, although his story was straight
enough to throw off a great deal of
suspicion which had gathered around
him was a valuable witness in the cor
oner s inquest and his whereabouts will
be watched carefully SO that he may
be at hand for the trial. No definite
date has as yet been set for the pre-
liminary hearing of Palermo but it is
probable that it will come the first of
next week. Mrs. Rosena Demarc, "the
woman in the caseo, is still being held
at the county Jail and it is possible
that she may be arraigned on charge
of completely, whenever Palermo is
brought before the Municipal court.