Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1910 — THREE ITALIANS FOUND MURDERED [ARTICLE]

THREE ITALIANS FOUND MURDERED

Salvatore Scalpone and Wife and Concede Martime, Victims. HAD BEEN DEAD SOME TIME Bodies Discovered When Neighbors * Comment on Silence in Flat and Investigation Is Made—Robbery Evidently Not the Motive and Money and Jewelry Are Not Touched—Were Pounded to Death. —— New York, Jan. 21.—Salvatore Scalpone, his young wife, Felicia Marla, who was about to become a mother, and Concetta Martine, the old woman who was lightening the house work for Felicia Maria, were pounded to death in their flat at 10 Montgomery street. All of the windows in the flat werfe not only locked but the sashes were nailed to the casements. The hall door was locked and could not be forced by the police. There was no trap door leading to the flat, which was the top one, to the roof, and Pietro, a big brlndle bull dog, chained in the hall, was tearing his heart out with yelps and snarls when they found him. There was no evidence that there had been a struggle and the flat was in perfect order except that a trunk in the bed room had been overturned and ransacked. The Scalpones and their companion were certainly not murdered for robbery, because $227 was found in a bag around Mrs. Scalpone’s neck. Concetta Martine had in the pocket of her dress $27 American money and about SSO in Ita’ian bills. Both women wore diamond earrings and both had rings on their fingers when their bodies were found—Felicia a diamond engagement ring and a plain gold ring, and Concetta a gold band ring. They were killed in the most brutal way. Salvatore was thirty years old and his wife twenty-five years old.