Republican farmer., 1919-08-08
Youthful ROOnler With CdrUing Knife;
 Takes His OlUn Life
Motive for Pembroke St. Murder and Suicide is
 Battling Police.
ASSASSIN INTENDED
 TO GO TO SPAIN

II1e pOiICo are undDle to aSCer-
 tain,. Batalo Concosta, 36 years,
 on the eve of his departure for Spain, stabbed his youthful
 roommate, Frank Abadea, 1S1
 years old, to death, at 4 o'clock this morning in the chamber
 they occupied at 339 Pembroke
 street. Fleeing the scene of
 his crime, the murderer threw
 himself under a railroad train between Noble and Kossuth street. His headless body was found by the police two hours after the crime.
 Concosto was to leave this morning for Spain. He had all arrangements made. and had secured his passport. But when his body was found by the railroad tracks, not a cent of money was in his clothes and one. of the i first things the police will endeavor | to determine was whether or not the murderer had money and if so, did the murdered man furnish the motive for l the crime by robbery of his com panion.
 According to the statements of | members of the family at 339 Penn | broke street where the men have lived for six months, they have always been the best of friends and retired as such | last night. The cause for the mur- | der. must accordingly, have been some occurrence between the time they re- | tired and o'clock this morning. 1 Concosto and Abadea have lived l with the family of Jesse Capuccino, | where the murder took place, for the pas several months. The older man 1 and murderer was employed at the 1 Crane Valve Company as a. 1aborel
 and his victim also worked there. The men were in the habit of going to | and from work together, and had all l ways been regarded as the best of I friends. t.e
 | Some fewAweeks ago Concosto de- 1 cided to return to Spain and had | been making arrangements for the | trip. On July 23, he went to New
 York city and after settling some
 money affairs with banks there, se- cured a passport from the Spanish l Consulate. He returned O Bridge | port and for the intervening week | had been completing his plans. His | trunks and suit cases packed were | found in the Pembroke street house
 this morning.
 | This morning shortly before four l o'clock, Capuccino and his daughter Josephine and another roomer, James Bruno, were awakened by shouts. These came from the room occupied by Concosto and Abadea. The owner of the house got up and went to the
 room and when he entered, found Abadea dead in pool of blood on : the floor, with gashes in his throat and breast. Concosto was gone. ] Search, hurriedly made, showed the
 back door open and it was certain that he man had fled.
 | Bruno hurried to the second pre- cinct station and gave notice of the
 murder and the escape of the mur-
 derer. The detective bureau at head quarters was notified and every
 available man in the second precinct
 and extra men called from other parts
 were at once put to work to prevent IConcosto's escape. All avenues of es-' cape were guarded and details were
 put out to watch trolley cars moving in all directions. detail was sent to
 the railroad station.
 Concosto lost no time in making
 his decision Reaching the railroad | property from Pembroke street he | walked west on the eastbound ex-
 press tracks for only the short dis
 tance from Pembroke to a point
 about midway between Noble avenue and Kossuth street. There he made
 up his mind not to face the penalty | for the murder, but to end his own
 life He still carried with him the
 bloody carving knife with which he
 had hacked Abadea-
 Taking off his coat and cap, Con-
 costo placed these alongside of the
 track and with them he laid the still I mn IIY6n IIn F,,IJ1,
 fixed himself on the tracks in such
 manner that death by decapitat1on | would be quick and certain, lying on
 his stomach, with his neck on the
 track.
 A Springfield express snatched him from the tolls of the law by severing
 his head as it raced along at a mile
 a minute clip at 5:20. The man was
 observed on the tracks. motionless,
 but too late for the engineer to stop | his train.
 When the train did stop, the con-
 ductor notified Police Headquarters. Doorman Colgan was sent from the Second Precinct to take charge of the body. Capuceino. his daughter. and
 Salvatore Moraches who knew the
 man were called and positively identi- fled him as the escaped murderer. The remains were moved to the Null T lfns, Scott aud Redgate morgue to
 which place Medical Examiner Gar lick also directed the remains of the murder vicum to be taken.
 Papers. letters and Concosto's pass port were found on the body and
 these were turned over to Captain Cronan, head of the detective depart
 ment. The letters, all in Spanish,
 have not been translated. but all are
 on stationery indicating that they con-
 cern only financial matters with New York banks and arc not expected to furnish any solution of the crime, un- less showing that Concosto had money about which nothing is now known
 Concosto has been in this country since April 1917. according to the papers which were in his possession. Prior to living at Pembroke street he tlived at 1o4 Hallett street.