The New York herald., 1921-03-16
EL0PER KILLS GIRL,
ENDS LIFE ON SHIP
Married Bay Ridge Man and
Model Barred From South
America.
WERE ON WAY HOME
Campagna Fires Five Shots
Into Models Body, Shoots
Himself.
WE'RE ON WAY HOME

A brief despatch from Barbados
yesterday telling of the murder of a
young woman and the suicide OF her
slayer, Louis Campagna. until recent
ly in the wholesale fruit business at
166 West street aboard the Lamport
this port. startled the little family Of
Campag gna, who live in a fine home
at 613 Seventy-seventh street, Bay
Ridge. The tragedy was the climax
the family of Campagna, a native
Italian who came here when he was
a boy and was successful h business
until he met the young woman. Err
nestine Dressed, two years ago.
Campagna sailed hence with Miss
Dressed, who had been a model, an
nouncing he was going 70 Italy. It
was said by some of his acquaintances
in the fruit trade he had been reck-
lessly extravaganza and that he was
forced to give up his business because
Of his infatuation with Miss Dressed.
He obtained passports for himself and
the girl and booked on the vasari
through tourist agency. He de-
scribed Miss Dressed as his wife. and
her photograph appeared with his on
the duplicate passport sent to the
State Department.
He and Miss Dressed had one Of the
finest staterooms in the ship and ne
also took aboard n new autom obila. which
he had only partly paid for thai ne
intended TO use IN touring Argentina.
after hitting the high spots Of Buenos
Aires. There was no intimation OF the
trouble In store for him at the gay
South American capital until the liner
reached that city. Then he and his
companion were dumfounded to learn
that they were practically prisoners
aboard the ship. The fraudulent pass
port had been their undoing. The state
Department had been Informed of his
escapade. the Argentine authorities had
been notified and they had barred the
couple az undesirable aliens.
Whether the couple entered into 4 sui
eide pact or whether he determined 10
murder her and kill himself may never
be known. The ships company wcr"
startled by the sound of shots IN his
cabin and when the door was forced the
woman was found dead with five bullet
wounds in her body. Campagna had
then sent a bullet into his brain The
bodies we're buried at sea. The Tasari
Is due here on Sunday with the auto
mobile.
Mrs Anna CampaRna and her daugh-
ter. Virginia. pretty girl Just out Of
her teens, learned last night from a
NFw YORK HKRALD reporter OF the trag-
edy aboard the vasari. While they
were much affected, they admitted they
had been expecting unpleasant news
They said tho father had been model
home man until recently. He was 46
and besides Virginia leaves boy ~ -
and three married children His ohauf-
feur after the disappearance of the fruit
dcaler. told how the latter had become
cramored Of Miss Dressed two years
ago.
Campagna did not come home on jan
uary to celebrate virginia's birthday
and the family became alarmed. Then
they learned he had gone 70 South
America with the model Miss Virginia
communicated with the state Depart
ment which held up the elopers, as told
pbove. Before this she received a letter
from Rio from her father. then on hts
way to Buenos Aires, saving II am all
right and will send for mother in few
days"