New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
Police Atone i'm
Full for Death
OF Girl Mother
Hearse Drawn by Six White
Horses Will Head Impos-
ing Funeral Cortege To.
day for Mrs. Difulco
Woman Shot by Accident
Men of the Oak St. Station
Also Raise Fund of $1,000
to Provide for Her BABY

When all that is mortal OF Dolarato
Difulco Is borne from the fourth noor
back tenement at 81 James Street this
morning, where she spent the single
year OF her wifehood and where her
baby was born month ago, the lower
East Side will see as pretentious a
funeral cortege as it has witnessed in
long time. The hearse, drawn by six
white horses; the four coaches, piled
high with flowers, and the twoscorc
others filed with mournors that will
follow, will all have been possible be-
cause the policemen OF the Oak Street
station are intent upon atoning, 50 far
as they can, for the act Of one of their
number
policeman's bullet, fired at fee
ing thief, missed its mark and killed
Dolarato, who was one of the comeliest
young matrons Of the quarter.
When Frank, Dolareto's husband,
broods in the days to come over the
woman who was taken from him, his
mourning VIII not be intensified by
anxiety as to how he can stretch his
fncaser bakers wage to employ q nurse
tor the. baby. The policemen Of the
Oak street station arc determined 10
atone in FULL
Thief Caught in Chase
Joseph pen.nber could hardly have
foroseen tie train Of events that were
tated to follow his alleged snatching
Of q carton of cigarettes from a truck.
at Chatham square last Thursday. If
be fad imagined ,hat Detective James
4. Kenny was 50 Quicl. on the trigger
he likely would have halted when
Kenny commanded him to do 50. He
was captured, anyway, before ne had
run d great distance, and the cigarettes
were recovered, 50 il vas al quite
futile so far as Joseph vas concerned.
To Dolarato and Frank and the baby
the consequences were more vital.
Dolaratc, it happened, was walking up
Oliver Street on some errand just as
PeNinber darted past her. She was in
a hurry 10 get back % the baby, left at
home in is crib. and was unaware that
there vas anything out Of the ordinary
going on. "joseph was running toward
her. Kcnnys rrst shot went Wild and
the fugitive lodged behind nolarato.
Kenny fired again. Dolarato sank to
the sidewalk. the built II her body.
She died two hours later IN Volunteer
Hospital.
Next 70 the hus sbsnd, Detective Jim
Kenny took tia 1yaredy harder than
any one. He has q good record, has
Kenny. His superio1s and colleagues
assert that performance Of MS duty has
,een feich with him. This urfore-
seen result of What e deemed to be
performance Of duty was q tough blow.
Tie consulted Captain Kingsley, Of the
First Branch Detective Bureau. and be-
tween them they dcrifcd the plan OF
putting il up % the policemen of the
Oas Street station to 10 toe thing thai
Ke7ny's means would rot permit him
TO do alone.
Fun Of $1,000 Raised
The nolicc nave raised about $1,000
for pclsrato's funeral and ior the care
Of her motherless baby Word of it
has spread throughout the reighbor
hood and the death and burial Of
Dolarato uiiulo has t@ken on an i'm
rortance far beyond tho station She oc
cupied il lie.
Rober, Ea.e...z tie ~,layor Of
'ames street himself VII have
charge of the funeral 1Aia morning.
0olarato iios in the four5h Aoor, back
coriias Mr. Nancila could provide. All
day yesterday on the lingY stairway of
the tenement house sounded the tread
OF hundreds cf residents OF the dis
trict. coming to condole with the rela-
tlVcs. Who 5a- rocking and moaning, in
the midst a. -ne slisD ar With which the
Italians surround their dcad and seea
10 le4EcN .heir erles.
Ait@r tne hearse hss departed with
Dolarato BODY to-day. and after TIE
prics, al ~t. jacaiuso Church has sa d
tie last prayer. Fran Difulco viii re-
'uru homo, ;aso IN A { day or so his
task IN The ittle bake Shop and know
that the baby VIII have. not only
bank account 20 alleviate in some de-
gree the pitfalls that beset The mother
less, but every policeman in the Oak
Street station for q big brother.
Miss Murphy Dismissed From