The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-10-01
Jealous Wife Held
As Slayer of Girl

The murder of Marie Nicolini has
been sol ed say the police Of Asbury
Pack.
Size was killed because of love and
jealousy and hate. Killed, say the police
by the wife. of Il man she loved.
Mrs. Theresa Siciliano, mother of
four children, no longer young, no
longer beautiful, is being held. She is
81 arged wit murder. Her husband,
Paul Sicjliano, q mysterious figure who
has acquired wealth within the last
few years, is being sought. and the war
rant calling for his arrest charges MUIR
der.
Marie N%icolini, young, beautiful,
gay, was found dead in the Nap es Res
t~aurant Thursday night, a bullet hole
in her bosom. She was found behind a
door, that had been nailed shut. She
died, apparently. as she sought to
crawl to it. Died as someone was ham
meTing in the nails.
come confirmation Of the police the
DRY was given by Mrs Sicilianc's nep
hew, James, twenty, lateon Friday
night.
He made a statement two hours
after he had escaped and been re
captured. He had jumped from a Sec
end story window in the Asbnry Park
police station while detectives were cues
tioning him. He had not been hurt by
the leap. He had run through empty
lots and back yards. He was found
on the State road by troopers, tired,
spent.
And it took little persuasion to
make him talk.
MY aunt knew about this wom-
an, Marie Nicolini," he said. "She
knew my unclee had bought the
Naples restaurant for Marie. He
bought it Friday.
My aunt flew into a rage. She
went from her home at No. So Marion
street. Astoria, to the big house in West
End. There she got a revo yer.
81 took her to the resta rant. / told
her the layout, the position of the rooms
upstairs. I told her TO pres the
bnzzer so that the door might open. |
let her out at the restaurant. And l
waited across the street.
Whoever killed Marie Nicolili
emf up the steps. The first shot
was fred in the bedroom 1t is be-
lieved she fed. The slayer fired three
more bullets, and one Of them found
its ak.
II waited acr SIS the street,
Sieiiiano continued. u heard and then
my aunt came running out. She was
making the sign of the cross. She
cried, Oh, Lordl oh, Lordl" And she
went running down the street"
Siciliano said nothing about the a
who nailed up the door after the girl
had been shot.
He said simply that he had fol-
lowed his aunt to the home in West
End, a house valued at $45, 600. 1t
is directly across the street from Shad-
cw Lawn, which was the late Presi-
dent Wilson's summer residence. Later
he followed her to Astoria
He found her there. He barricaded
the doors and the windows. he said,
and he and his aunt sat down quietly
and awaited the coming Of the police.
The police went to the house early.
They rang the bell. They surrounded
the place. They tried to peep in
through the barricaded windows.
There was no. a sound. But they
STAYED there.
And then a dog parked, inside,
and the doors were bat tered down and
the woman would say nothing, save
that shr had not been in New Jersey
for two weeks.
Other relatives of the woman were
taken into custody and questioned.
But they would say nothing.
Marie had been ''golng with"
iSiciliano, according to Jean Seymour,
Marie's friend. They had known each
otner more than a year, and Miss Sey-
mour adds, Paul bought the Naples res
taurant for her Thursday, the day she
was killed.
She told me-" Miss Seymour said,
THAT she was afraid Mrs Siciliano
would kill her."