The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-25
MOTHER PINES FOR DAUGHTERS
 FATHER SLEW
In Fit of Temper, Enraged Parent Murders Own Lit tie Girls.
By JAMES l.. KILGALLEN,
International News Service Staff
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Correspondent.
 Kansas City, Mo, Sept. 25-Amend- ca, so often the land of hope to the foreign-born, has spelled nothing but tragedy in capital letters to Mrs. Tony Dinello, of sunny Italy,
 In rickety shack, on the banks of the muddy Missouri River, this little dark-eyed. black-haired immigrant girl of yesteryear is grieving her heart out-torn by the knowledge that her husband, her Tony is a self-confessed murderer and that the victims of this mad act were their own two daugh- ters-Helen, of the pig-tail age of thirteen, and Florence, two years her junior, and just as cute a5 could be- Her husband, in a fit of anger, clubbed them with a hammer and threw their bodies into the river.
 "Oh-oh, God in Heaven, can it be so, can it be so?" she moans day after day.
 Worried Over Julia
 And, as if this were not enough more worried than ever about Julia, twenty, her oldest daughter-Julia, who disappeared mysteriously thres years ago. The mother, who had been day see Julia, now fears that she, too. is dead. The police have suggested that maybe the father also killed Julia. but -''No, no, no, it can't be SOL" the hope that what she hopes is true
 All the time I have troubIe.' the little mother said. 'I wish-oh, how I wish for Ita1yi''
 Mrs Dinello's mother, in Italy, made her marry Tony Dinel1o when she was fifteen years old, she said.
 And I have had trouble ever since!" she moaned, beating her breast and her head. And her motions did not seem me1odramatic.
 Tony was good to her at first; in fact, he wasn't a bad husband, as hus- bands go, until about three years ago, when Sha haoaY m hn had h buy her medicine. Tony. naturally fiery tempered, flew into a rage over the smallest annoyances.
 It was about this time that Julia disappeared.
 Father Loved Her.
 Now, Tony loved Julia. The Dineilo family thought that he cared more for Julia than anyone else in the house She resemb1ed her dad, and he was fond of taking her upon his knee and telling her stories of far-of Italy.
 But, with Julia gone, the father be- came unbearab1e, and another of their children, Angelina-who Is now seven teen years old and who comes to her mother to comfort her in the hour of went to Kansas City to live with girl chum.
 And then came the terrible tragedy the killing of Helen and Florence
 "I was away shopping" the mother explained in broken English. 1T asked the girls if they wanted to go along. They didn't. I returned in about three hours. I asked Tony where the girls were. Out playing. he said. But they did not return. I was not worried at first.
 "But it is ten. eleven. twelve days since I seen then-oh, I shall never see themI''
 Tony Confesses Crime.
 The hot-tempered Tony told the po- lice what actually happened. He had missed some money He demanded that the little daughters tell him where it was He took Florence into the chicken-house.
 ''She deny' he explained. "I got mad. I hit her on head with ham mer. She cry out. hit her againi
 s'Then I get Helen. She afraid. Sha run and scream But I catch her. I hit her. too.
 "I put both bodies in chicken house. That night I put them in sacks and toss them into the riveri"
 Into the river-yes, the same river upon which the dark-eyed immigrant girl of yesterday gazes hour after hour with emotions that only she can un- dersfand