New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-11
Murderer Slain
InROOmW Where
He Killed Girl
Rejected Suitor Lured to
Scene of Crime Week Ago
and Shot by Avenging
Italian in Asbury Park
Body RiddIedWith Bullets
Lack of Powder Burns Puts
End to Belief He Took
Own Life in Remorse

ASBURY PARK. N. j., Aug. 1o.-To
mete out vengeance to africa Picone.
who, on August 8, shot and killed his
beautiful cousin, Cammella Maccanico
after she had announced her engage
ment TO a rival, friends or relatives
OF the murdered girl brought the man
back to the scene Of the shooting yes-
terday and fred four shots through
his body. ne body, riddled with bull
let's. was found in the girls room.
Policeman George Jeffries was pass
ing the home of Mrs. Anna Crosse. the
murdered girls sister, with whom she
had been staying, when he heard four
shots IN rapid succession The Crosse
home had been closed since the day
following the murder, when Mrs. eros
so had been taken to Freeport as
material witness to the crime. JEFF
fries entered the house. and in the
room where the young Italian girl had
been shot he discovered Phones body.
lying face downward, and Mauser PTS
toll beneath 1t. There were two bullet
wounds through the heart and two
others through the right chest
Reject Suicide Theory
Dr.. Jamison, county physician. said
he believed Picone was a suicide. The
pistol. he pointed out, unlike the Amer
lean army types, does not require q
distinct pressure of the trigger for
each explosion. This made it possible
for person thus to inflict four such
wounds
Dr.. Jamison expressed the belief tina
grief and haunting memories had
brought the man back to the scene OF
=
own life.
The police. after a careful exarina-
ton. however, reject this theory.
Pcone, it has been learned, was seen
short time before the policeman
heard the shots which marked his
death The fact that there were four
wounds in the body, any one Of which.
it was believed, might have caused
death. and that there were no powder
marks on the body, led them TO be-
lieve that the man met his death as
the result OF carefully planned
vengeance
Feeling has run high In the Italian
colony. where Mss Maccanico was
popular.
Picone. who lived with his sister.
Mrs. Scarafna Brono. at 1912 Utrecht
Avenue, Brooklyn, had only met his
cousin few months before on her ar
rival in America. Since that time he
had come frequently with his sister to
Asoury Park, and paid her assduous
court
Rejected His Salt
The girl Rad refused his suit. how
ever, partly on the grounds of con-
sangu;nity and partly because rival
existed in Camucto Vetrano, hack
driver
On the afternoon of August she and
Vetrsr9 obtained license to marry.
Both Nei'ano and Picone we're at the
Crosse home for dinner that night. The
enlargement was announced. and the
Hance departed early in the evening.
Immediately he was gone Miss Mac
crnlc9 babe the other guests good
night and retired to her room.
Phone f7llowed ner. and without
we1a drew q revolver and shot her
WvuHe ng 0er MORALLY. Then he
ieaHed from the second-story window
10 rhe ground and escaped.
ne police of all Eastern cities had
been notified to be OF the lookout for
the man. bur no Roadway had been
made in locating him Up to the time
that els body was discovered today.
Whether he succeeded in visiting his
home not known. but he was clothed
N diTercu, suit from the one he had
worn on the oh. Ct the shooting
Tie mlidv and torn condition % his
clothes indicated Tat he had been
aiding ID nearby swanps