Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-01-19
Doubt Passage Muscle
Shoals, Farm Aid and
Postal Boost Bills
LETTERS DISCLOSE
JEALOUSY MOTIVE IN
FERRANT| Staying

Everett. Mass, Jan. 1S.-Two
notes scrawled in Sicilian dialect,
held by the police, today formed the
apparent explanation of a shooting
tragedy here late yesterday which
claimed three lives. According to
the incoherently told story in the
letters, the shooting was the climax
of domestic triangle in which Mrs.
Francesca Ferranti and Paul Lom-
bardi, boarder in the Ferranti home.
were murdered and Frank Ferranti,
husband of the dead woman, COM
mitted suicide.
According to the story Of the trag-
edy as revealed by the police inves-
tigation, Ferranti, known also as
Vito Adorno, strobe into the kitchen
unexpectedly yesterday afternoon
and dealt out swift death with a re-
volver to his wife and Lombardi.
Apparently he intended to escape but
the taxicab which carried him to his
home had disappeared and when a
police patrol, summoned by a neigh
Dor, entered the street Ferranti turn
ed the weapon on himself.
The police. forced to break a
window to enter the room. found
Mrs. Ferranti and lombard dead.
Ferranti, found with a revolver still
grasped in his hand. died without
regaining consciousness.
Lombardi, victim of Ferranti's re-
volver, it was learned today. was
apparently involved in a similar af-
fair in Binghamton, n. Y, last year.
1t was said that at the time Lombar-
di played the role of roomer in a
home and the affair ended in jeal-
ousy and the murder of a woman,
for which crime Nick Ferranti is
now under sentence of death in
Sing Sing prison. Lombardi testified
against Ferranti at the trial.
Two letters. stamped and address,
ed to the Boston police, were found
In Ferrantfs pocket. indicating that
the shooting had been premeditated.
Translated with some difficulty, one
read:
''The name of the traitor is Paulo
lombard; the name of the wife is
francesca Ferranti and the name OF
the unfortunate husband is Vito
Adorno. I do sot want an accomplice
or even an assassin and / believe this
is the destiny of my life and also
that Of my wife,"
Adorno. 1t was learned. had assumed
his wife's name. Ferranti. upon their
marriage. Lombardi. it was said, was
cousin of the woman. AS husband
and wife they came here from Brook
lyn two years ago.
In the second sote Ferrani dwelt
at some length upon his sorrow over
Lombardi's attention to his wife and
indicated that at one time lombard
was under suspicion of having COM
mitted murder.
In 1919, Ferranti wrote. "I met a
countryman and this man escaped be-
cause he was accused of murder, and
I took him isto my house and treated
him like brother" Then came COM
plants of how the "countryman" had
come between him and his wife and
had led him to lead "barbarous ex-
istence."
An autopsy today disclosed that
lombard had been shot three times
and Mrs. Ferranti twice. Any Of the
wounds would have been fatal. 1t was
said Ferranti died from n bullet
wound in the head. Tony Lombardi of
Moust Carmel, Pa, brother of the
murdered man, claimed his body today.
Sam Ferranti Of Boston, a cousin Of
Mrs. Terranti. claimed her body.
Adorno's, or Terranti's, was unclaimed
tonight. Tony Lombardi had been
staying at the Ferranti home but told
the police that he was ignorant of the
cause Of the shooting.