Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — SHOOTS GIRL IN HIS SLEEP [ARTICLE]

SHOOTS GIRL IN HIS SLEEP

Father, Believed to Have Been Dreaming .of Picture Show, Then Kills Self. Brooklyn, N. Y. —Following the shooting of hi 3 favorite daughter while he was walking in his sleep, Raffele Richetti, a carpenter, died from a selfinflicted bullet wound. The girl, Rosa, who Is nineteen, is in a critical condition. Richetti shot his daughter, it is believed, while walking in his sleep and dreaming of a scene he had witnessed at a moving picture show a few hours before. The girl was asleep in her room when she was shot... The report of the pistol . awoke Richetti, and, realizing what he had done, he sent a bullet into his own brain. Both father and daughter were hurried to the Sency hospital, where strenuous efforts were made to save both, but the man only lived a few hours. Frank Richetti, son of Richetti, ran Into the room when his father shot the girl, but could not reach the man in time to disarm him before he bad shot himself.