The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-22
PRETTY BRUNETTE
SHOOTS HER RIVAL
Short. Dark And Determin.
ed Woman Pumps Five
Bullets Into Woman

NEW A0Ah1A NhoJ - WI" .
Margaret Jannazzo, 81, pretty and
brunette, wouldn't listen" when
Mrs. Philomena Scavone, Al, told
her to keep away from my hus-
band" After two years of that,
Mrs. Scavone decided today she
had enough and pumped five bull
lets into the chest of her rival,
who died at once.
Mrs. Scavone, short, dark and
determined, chased Mrs. Jamaica
down a dark Brooklyn hallway,
felled her with one shot, then stood
over the woman's body and put
four more bullets in her.
When police arrested her. Mrs.
Scavone confessed readily. When
photographers asked her to pose,
she said.
Take EN- nice, and don't for
get my weight-94 pounds. I'm
happy now, and I feel swell. I'm
glad 7 did it."
Then Mrs. Scavone sobbed out
her story.
The Jannazzos and the Scavones
always had been close. Then
Anthony Jannazzo came home
from three years service in the
European theater and found out
what Mrs. Scavone apparently did
MT know. Jannazzo filed suit for
divorce, accusing his wife of
adultery and naming Rocco Scavone
AZ correspondent.
Mrs. Scavone said She was sorry
for the other woman and she took
the latter's two children, Phillip.
10, and David, 6, into her own
home. For a month She clothed
and fed them and treated them
like her own three children.
Then, Mrs. Scavone said, she
learned that Mrs. J%annazzo was
''fooling with my husband
She sent Phillip to mis- father
and found a place for David to be
boarded. And, she said, she told
Mrs. Jannazzo to stay away from
Roco, who runs a small trucking
business.
"She wouldn't listen to me-" Mrs.
Scavone said. This morning I
decided to put an end to it,"
Mrs. Scavone took a .32 caliber
pistol and plodded down the street
sarly this morning with the rain
pelting down On her and murder
in her heart. She waited along the
path Mrs. Jannazzo walked to her
Job at a raincoat factory.
The younger woman came along
1t about 7:b a. m.
IT want to talk to You" Mrs.
1cavone said she told her.
IT want to talk to you. too
Mrs. Jannazzo replied.
They stepped out of the rain
into the gloom of the nearest
hallway in a combination store
and apartment building.
IT have asked you for two years
to keep away from my husband"
Mrs. Scavone said. Nov I am
going to see that you never see
him again"
Mrs. Jannazze, terrified, back
ed down the hallway. Mrs. Sea-
vone fired. A bullet lodged in her
rivals chest and she fell. Mrs.
Scavone walked forward, pointed
her gun and fired four more times
at the woman lying on the floor
sasping out her life.
Mrs. Scavone turned and al to
her home two blocks away. She
climbed to the roof Of the apart
ment house and tossed the gun
down. Then she changed her
clothing and started back toward
the scene of the shooting.
On the way she stopped in AL
Berg's hardware store. She heard
. United Press reporter telephon-
ing the news of the shooting.
They'll never find the gun"
she told Berg, IT hid it."
She walked on and mingled with
the crowd in front of the building.
Other neighbors told police of her
threats to Mrs. Jannazzo. She
soon was arrested and confessed.
Tae reporter walked back to
Bergs store 10 make q secoho
call.
"I knew she was the murderer
all the time" Berg said, "but !
wouldn't tell you because I think
she did the right thing. Everyone
on this block has known her story
for years. And we know how hard
she tried to keep her family to-
gether."
Mrs. Scavone was booked on a
homicide charge and will be given
Z hearing in Brooklyn felony court
tomorrow. Police also arrested
Joseph spoto, a young friend OF
Mrs. Scavone's son, Francis . They
believed Spoto had supplied the