The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-01
Frank Iaquinta Shot and
Killed Tuesday Evening
on West Side.
NOT MAN SUSPECTED
May Have Been Taken for 9th
er Frank Inquinta Believed
to Have Shot Ciappetti.

Anarchy and lawlessness had a sec
Ond eruption within three days in the
italian quarters Tuesday evening when
iust before eight o'clock Frank Iaquin-
ia of 1902 North Rowland avenue was
shot through the right eye, and killed
instantly, at the corner of Rowland
avenue and Garden street. The muir
der trod closely on the heels of the
ARRAY of last Sunday morning, when
Frank Ciappetti was shot and wounded
in the same neighborhood only block
away from the crime of last evening,
although the dead man was not the
Frank Iaquinta for whom the police
have been looking since Sunday.
Facts in the case bear curious SIM
ilarity and among other things four
men are said to have figured in both
affairs. Just after the shooting last
night, three men, who were with Ia
quinta when shot, suddenly dug out
Of the neighborhood and took to cover.
Cyzak and Force a Block Away.
Assistant Chief John Cyzak together
with the three detectives of the police
department, Rock, Breidt and McClus-
key, were as luck would have it, in the
ueighborhood of Grand and Rowland
avenues, when they heard the night
air suddenly pierced by the sharp re-
port of bullet. The police car was
speeded Immediately down Rowland
avenue in the direction from which the
shot came, and halted at the corner Of
Garden street. For there on the side
walk and against the curbing lay the
body of man. Picked up, he was
found to be dead, instantly killed by
the shot which had passed through his
right eye and blown out the eyeball.
There was no one else in sight. The
neighborhood was as quiet as the grave
until second later the police ambu-
lance swung into view with officers c.
Radatz, Greb and Buchanan. The call
for the ambulance was received at 1856
o'clock, sent in just as the shot was
heard. The dead man was taken to
Mischler's and later at midnight to the
Cardinal undertaking establishment,
where the post-mortem was held.
The post-mortem held at midnight by
Dr. George w. Thompson showed that
the bullet had entered the right eye,
carrying the eye with it in its course
through the brain, and that it made it's
way through the skull few inches
above the right ear at the back of the
head The bullet had fractured the
skull but had not pierced the scalp and
hung between scalp and skull. The
bullet was .38 calibre and only one
shot had been fired, this apparently at
very close range.
The assistant chief and detectives
ut up their vigil and investigation
he west side. One witness in the
nifty who saw Iaquinta shot, stated
.Cnat just previous to the shooting four
gether, and that directly the shot was
fred, the one man dropped and the
other three fed one directly across
the street and the two others in be-
tween the houses.
Two Frank Iaquintas.
Four arrests were made during the
evening and the persons under suspi-
cion subjected to the grind of ques-
tioning in the police office.
Tom Iaquinta and one Frank Iaquin-
ia were held responsible for the shoot
ing of Sunday in which four men fig
ured. The police have been conduct
ing search for both men in vain. The
Frank Iaquinta who was shot to death
last night was not, however, the one
whom the police were looking for, but
bore the same name and was a cousin
Of the other two Iaquintas. The muir
dered man was about So years old and
unmarried. All of the three Iaquintas
named are cousins. The one killed last
night has no police record.
It is not yet certain whether the
crime of Tuesday evening resulted
from the fact that the identity of
Frank Iaquinta (2) was confused with
that Of Frank Iaquinta ~, the one
alleged to be Ciappetti's assailant, or
whether as a matter of fact, all of the
Iaduintas were somewhat involved in
Sundays ARRAY.
Same Gang of HOOdIums.
That both shooting affairs relate back
TO the same string of circumstances
and to the same bad blood, however.
the police are convinced Investigation
Is being made, not simply into the two
events which have rocked the west side
this week, but in the background of
Italian hoodlumism which is it's direct
cause and which loves to mask its OPP
erations under the mythical terror that
Is struck out of the rather meaningless
phrase, "the black hand" All the
feudists Of this quarter, believed to be
a handful of reckless and embryo gun
men fast reaching maturity of Grim
inal impulse, are able to draw blood
and thunder from the blunderbuss
name which tradition gives the south
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