The Washington times., 1921-03-16
EL0PER KILLS
GIRL AND SELF
Double Tragedy Occurs Aboard
Ship at Sea on Which Mar.
ried Man Fled.

NEW IOhh, March l6.-Whlle
the wife and five children of Louis
Campagna, Bay Ridge. were busy
Ing themselves last night In prepar-
Ing q forgtving reception to an
erring husband and father, q cable
from Barbados was flashing forth a
message that he had committed sui
eide at sea after shooting to death
the girl, half his age, for whom he
had forBaken family and business.
OCCURS ON LINER.
The double tragedy. as the clippers
steamship Vasari Of the LAmport 4
Holt line. on which they ned from
this port January 10. and on which
they were detained by the captain on
order of tho State Department, cabled
to Buenos Ayres a. q result of q
complaint to tho department By one
Of the mans children.
The tragic termination of the run
away affair eliminated a Gland destine
romance OF two years, some of the
details of which were known to Cam
pagna's family.
Campagna forty-six years old.
came from Italy thirty years ago. He
thrived as . produce merchant, and
establishment at No. 1875 West street,
which recently passed into the hands
of a receiver.
The story OF his elopement was told
last night by his wife and two OF
his children. Virginia. twenty. and
Charles. fifteen. Virginia said:
FAMILY TELLS STORY.
Father was always q good pro-
WIDER. Two years ago. while in his
automobile, he picked up a girl at
Twenty-seventh street and Fourth
avenue, Manhattan. She was q blond.
Vivian Dressed then twenty-one, OF
No. 43S Irving avenue, Brooklyn.
The two met often after that. We
couldn't stop II. He must have given
her some OF mothers jewelry. for it 10
missing.
"On January 8 he left for his place
of business a. usual. ! reminded him
as he was leaving that the next day
was my birthday. He didn't como
homo that night. Nor did he return
the next few days. / went to his
home and was told she had gone
Argentine. I called up the girls
home and was told she had gone to
away for a year with a fashion show.
II questioned fathers chauffeur. At
FIRST be wouldn't say anything. But
I pressed him and he finally admitted
that father and tho girl. taking
fathers Cadillac car along. had sailed
for South America on January 10 on
the Fasari.
II wrote to the State Department. {.
telling them my father was a mar
ried man with five children, three of
girl was single. They sent me
Special Agent kinzic. He produced
a passport made out to Mr.. and Mrs.
Campagna.'
| shortly after / received = letter
from my father dated Rio. He wrote
that everything was all right and
that he planned to send for mother.
That 10 all we knew until tonight
when a reporter told us what had
happend- We want his body At any
cost
Both bodies. however, were buried
at sea
ORDERED TO DErAIN ELorERs.
At Buenos Ayres the steamship
captain WAS handed . State Depart
ment cable revoking the passport and
directing detention of the elopera
On March 10. between Rio Janeiro
anu Barbados, the couple, II Is be-
| lieved, entered into a death pact
rather than return home to face their
families. Campagna shot the girl and
then turned the weapon on himself.
Tho cable from Barbados gave the
girls name as Ernestine. At her
home her father declined to discuss
the case beyond saying, MY daugh-
ter left q couple Of months ago for
| South America
Business neighbors Of Campaigns
said that for some time before his
sailing he had talked with them OF
his purpose of selling his business
and taking UP residence in Argentine
The day of his departure from port
he appeared at his once as usual, IL
Is said.
Passage for the couple was secured
through the American Internationa
Travel and Traffic Bureau, wher'
CampaEna said his companion was nj,
| wife.
FAMILY FORGAvE HIM.