New-York tribune., 1920-11-29
100 Unsolved
Murder Cases
Here This Year
Police Fail to Apprehcnd
Slayers, Despite Valuable
Clews Left in MANY
Instances, Since Jan. i

Instances, Since Jan. !
More than 100 murders in greater
New York since January 1 are still un-
solved, and in most of the cases here
were no arrests. although valuable
ciews in many instances we're left By
the assaiIants.
The first of the unsolved killings this
year was the shooting OF Domi5sco
Lombardi, at 342 East 1l4tA Street. On
New Years Day. The last was re
vealed with the finding of murdered
man, unidentified, in the hallway cf All
Henry Street, Brooklyn, yesterday
morning. Last Tuesday night Frank
Barber was shot and beaten to death
as he resisted three bold-up men near
the Seventy y-second Street entrance to
Central Park. In the latter Instance
the trio of murderers sped past po-
llceman in making their escape.
Some Siayers Killed Selves
The unsolved murder list includes
only crimes in which there have been
no convictions and takes no account of
majority of homicides resulting from
attack, in many % which the pcrpetra-
ttTs have committed suicide.
Conspicuous among the unsolved
crimes arc the murders OF Joseph B
E,well, Mss Rennie Constance Hoxie.
Leeds Vaughn Waters and Frederick
c. Eckert
klwell. widely known turfman and
bridge expert, was found shot 10 death
IN the library of his home, 24A West
Seventeen Street, on the morning of
June IL. There was an elaborate in
vestlgatlon and predictions by the
police that the assailant would be
captured, but at the end of the SIX
months that have elapsed they seem no
nearer solution than on tho morning
the body was found.
Girl BrutalIy Slain
The murder OF seventeen year-old
Miss HoXie is among the most brutal
of the mysteries. The body of the
girl was found in the home Of her
father, 50 West Eighty-ninth Street. on
February .. 1t had been horribly
mutilated by fiend who left many
ciews regarded as important by the
police. Public indignation was reused
by the crime to such an extent that
Mayor Hylan considered Offering re-
ward for the capture of the assailant.
Eckert, an alleged whisky runner
with gangster connections and enmities.
was found shot to death in an abandoned
automobile on Old Town Road, Staten
Island, August 2l.
The murder of Waters, member
of prominent and wealthy family.
occurred in the Hotel Plymouth on the
night Of November 8. Waters, who was
fifty years old, had registered at the
hotel with a companion and the two
were assigned room together A few
minutes after they went TO the room
sounds Of scuYle were heard and
Waters's 5 companion fled down the cor
rIdor as hotel attaches approached the
door. Waters had been killed by a
blow on the head. The hotel employees
gave the police detailed description
Of the assailant. but no arrests were
mace A list Of the other honicides
still unsolyed follows:
JANUARY
-Dcnlesnieo Lombard. IS. shot ana
iiiled at S42 East l1{th Street. No
l-charIes II. Lackinston so. shot ana
Killed 1t Bergen street and Howard
Avenue. 40 arrest
l--Islae~ .ra,t Dqyie, Il: *tsbbsd to death In
s-I,ea Branch. -. ahot and killed at
Central Park West. No arrest.
f-kooert Collins, .s, struck OF hea7
pipe at 4ol Alabama Avenue. at-
5-~syivester Doran. ~. stabbed to death
ct 22T East Ninety sixth street. Arrest
iil"uT' bEl grand jury lalled 10 llNitt.
-s-Mary signorelli. 25, shot and killed at
lS2 Sacl1man street. 10 arrest.
95--Sslvatore Sco}aro, 35. shot and killed
IN front of III Union street. No
rest
tenrl4tta CLARK 25, shot ard killed at
80 BEDFORD Avenue No arrest
2S-Tony Cassara, So. shot ana killed az
5l5 West Twenty ninth Street. Arrest
made. but Indictment was dismissed.
oS-Nllliam Felts, IS. hit head with
revolver butt Al 1873 Cofneila Street.
Nn arrest.
3o-Wiliam Y. sheehan, IS. pushed into
hold OF L. s. :. America. 40 arrest.
FEBRUARY
2-Renic c Hoxie. ~ Of 70 West Eighty
ninth Street. stabbed to death in her
home. 10 arrest.
E-Beneditto Tonwnncllo. 81. stat5ed 70
death In Highland Park. No arrest.
sl-Poiiceman Henry tflanTen. 30. shot and
killed al BainbridRs Avenue and Gun
hill Road No arrest
a2-Dominick Mariana, 81 shot and killed
in front of 3ol East J25th Street. ar
rest made, but grand Jury failed to
as-Charles Norton. A. died III hospital