New-York tribune., 1920-08-18
One Girl Slain,
S Attacked by
Jited Suitors
Infuriated Swain Murders
Jersey Victim After She
Had Jumped From Win
dow. Then He Escapes
Sisters, Asleep, Stabbed
Young Woman and Escort
Shot While ON Way to
Work; Assailant Taken


tally wounded and four others are in
the hospital as result of attacks made
upon them between midnight on Mon
day and yesterday morning by Tilted
suitors.
The dead girl is Miss Mary velloto,
nineteen years old. of 237 Naples Ave
nue., Lyndhurst, N. J. She was shot
and killed by Pasquale Meone, of
Syracuse, after she had refused to be-
come his wife. Melone escaped.
AT 8 o'clock yesterday morning two
unidentified men entered the bedroom
OF Miss Fenicia ,Leccadito, eighteen
years old, and her sister Julia, twenty,
at Al Oak Street, and stabbed both girls
severely about the neck and sheul-
ders. Julia is expected to die. Both
we're taken to the Volunteer Hospital
in serious condition. The men es-
oaped.
A few hours after the stabbing of the
Ieccadito girls Joseph Adriano, a
machinst's helper, met his fancee,
Hiss Pasquelle Rella, as she was
walking through Ninety-fourth Street,
near Lexington Avenue on her way to
work. With her was Gerardo Ben
retto, q shoemaker, who boards in the
same house. Andriano drew revolver
ana opened fire, wounding the gjrl
twice ard Bennetto once. Both were
taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital. 1t was
sad that they will recover. Adriano
was arrested
Girls Chokcd and Beaten
Miss Margaret Constantine, nineteen,
Of l03 Gates Avenue, Jersey City, and
her friend Antoinette Aversion, of the
same address, are in Jersey City Hos
pltal as a result Of an attack made upon
them at midnight Monday near the
Garfield Avenue railroad crossing by
two men whose attentions the girls are
said to have repulsed Both were
choked and beaten. The men escaped
The murder of the Velloto girl oc-
CURED after she had jumped from a
second story window to avoid the at
tentions Of Melone, with whom she
had been keeping company for more
fence and was painfully injured. While
she WAS crawling toward an abandoned
well with the intention of hiding
heione came out of the house with a
revolver and began firing One shot
struck the girl in the abdomen and
three others lodged in her breast She
died instantly.
The police say that Melonc, who is
thirty years old and travelling sales
man employed by a Syracuse firm, ar
rived at Rutherford on an early train
yesterday morning and proceeded to
LynGhurst in a taXicab. He kept the
car waiting, and after the shooting told
the driver, Charles Whitman, to drive
hlm 10 the tube. When they had
driven a short distance, according to
Whitman, the man jumped out, paid
his fare and disappeared in the woods
rear Arlington.
The woods and swamps in the vcin-
ity are now being searched by the
police and citizens, assisted by blood
hounds. Charles j. Mccarthy, Assist
ant Prosecutor Of Bergen County, who
has been assigned to the case, said
he believes that Melone had cceeded
IN escaping from that part Of the
country and would be found in this
city
After the shooting Mrs. Michael
Nelloto, sister-in-law of the dead girl.
said that Melone met Mary IN Italy
more than year ago and began pay
ing attentions to her. When she came
to this country last March he followed
and has been frequent visitor at
Lyndhulst.
Shooting Caused by Rejection
The shooting, Mrs. Vclloto said oc-
CURED after Mary had repeatedly told
MeloNe that She would not marry him.
Rejected suitors are believed to have
stabbed the Leccadito girls as they
slept in the home of their sister-in- law
Mrs. Giuseppe Garrella, Al Oak Street
According to what Mrs. Garrella and
her husband told the police of the Oak
Street station, they were awakened at
3 o'clock yesterday morning by screams.
They rushed into the chamber in time
to see the figures of two men climbing
out on the fire escape and making their
way toward the roof.
Patrolman Guran was standing near
the house at the time of the stabbing
and met Giuseppe Garrella as he was
rushing out into the street, his hands
and clothing covered with blood. When
he entered the room Guran said he
found Julia Leccadito lying in a pool
OF blood beside her bed. She had been
stabbed several times in the neck and
back '''N
Fenicia was still in the bed and had
1our-lnch cash in her shoulder and a
number OF smaller cuts. The girls
Wee sent to the Volunteer Hospital.
The police are detaining Mr.. and Mrs
Garrelia at the Oak Street station pend
inG an examination by the District