Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-06
BODIES OF TWO WOMEN
FOUND; THROATS Gut
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Mr.. Fischer said she had told hin
that she was married four years age
when she was fifteen years old. Hell
husband, q barber in Jersey City
told him last week, he said, that he
had gone into the saloon business
in Jersey City. Mrs. Blandino, Es-
cher said, was differently dressed
each time he saw her, and always
wore expensive jewelry.
Medical Examiner Lord said the
young woman identified as Miss Me-
Mahon apparently was a married wo-
man. she wore a wedding ring. DR..
Lord said he believed her to be about
IS. He added she had been one
of the most beautiful girls he had
ever een
The police said they learned only
two ferries left Staten Island after
midnight-one from Tottenville for
Perth Anlboy, N. j., and the other
from St. George for Manhattan. The
murderers are believed to have left
on one of these ferries.
Mrs. Blandino's throat bore three
separate wounds and there was .
long slash in her back. A long slit
had been cut in the back of her ex-.
pensive fur coat by the assailant's
knife.
The body of Miss Mcmahon also
bore wounds on the back, in addi-
ton to those at the throat. Her
topcoat, however, had not baen cut,
and the police think the garment
must have been put on the body af-
ter she had been slain.
While all ferries leading from the
island were being watched for the
~slayers. big details of plain clothes
men were Sent on rounds of gar
ages in quest of the blood-stained
automobile in which it is believed
the bodies were transported to the
spot where they were found. Other
detectives visited hardware stores n
quest of a clue to the owner Of
the knife.
Detectives who went TO james
Blandino's barber shop in Jersey
City to seek from him information
which might provide a clue to the
slayer, found him out, but mis- assist
ant said he was expected pack In a
short time. The assistant told the
police Blandino had been oertui bed
because his wife and Miss McMakon
had been absent all night.
When Blandino returned q short
time later. both he and the assist
ant Broyorio hi Lorenyo were taken
to headquarters for questtonins.
Di Lorenyo said Mrs. Blandino
and Miss Mcmahon, who had been
visiting the Blandino's for about five
weeks, went out together about s
O'clock last night, a short time af-
ter Blandino had left the house.
Blandino had gone out. he said,
at the request of his barber shop
partner, whom Di Lorenyo knew
only as mick" to take charge for a
few hours of Nick's saloon. The
assistant said he closed the shop
about $3.50 and went home.
When he returned this morning,
he said, he found Blandino in bed.
Blandino told him, he said, that he
had come home from the saloon
about 2 o'clock this morning, and,
finding the women missing, had re-
tired.
Police said they would make a
thorough check of Blandino's state
ments as to his whereabouts during
the night, to make sure that he
could not have been on Staten Is
land.
Mrs. Blandino and Miss Mcmahon
- 'IoVAiiiy 6NGh 6bOtI 0fI5tY
City dance halls, the police said they
had learned.
The first tangible theory for a mo-
tive for the Staying was advanced
by Jersey City police after they had
learned hat Mrs. Blandino, before
she married Blandino, had been
married to Frank Bongiovani of
Jersey City, a reputed black hand
gang leader.
Bongiovani was slain in a Jersey
City saloon in March, 1922, while
he was out on bail, awaiting trial
in connection with the murder of
two men in a saloon fight the pre-
ceding January. Jersey City police
suggested that members of the gang
which slew B~ongiovani may have
killed his widow in further re-
venge. Miss Mcmahon, according to
this theory, was slain only because
she happened to be with Mrs. Blan-
dino when the assailants found her.
Among Miss McMahon's effects at
the Blandino home in Jersey City,
the police found several letters, one,
of an affectionate nature, was from
Joseph Salerno of Utica, urging her
to return to the upstate city.