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Subject: [Bklyn] Brooklyn Standard Union - May 18, 1931 - Monday - Deaths
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 00:13:12 EDT
ALIEN, FACING DEPORTATION, STABS WIFE and HER KIN, THEN DIES by GAS at HOME
Runs Amuck With Knife in Flat of Brother-in-Law
When immigration officials checked over the list of undesirables summoned to
Ellis Island today to be deported, there was no one to answer when the name
of Genaro SPARZA was called.
SPARZA'S lifeless body lies on a marble slab in the morgue at kings County
Hospital, awaiting the autopsy required by law, and his wife, Nancy, is at
death's door in Trinity Hospital, with nearly a score of stab wounds all over
her body, while her cousin, Nancy MALFREDO, occupies the bed next to her
painfully but not dangerously injured, also with stab wounds.
SPARZA, who was 31, came to this country two years ago from Italy, worked as
a laborer and a year ago married Nancy DELACCIO, then 27, and the couple took
a four-room apartment at 438 Bradford street. There was trouble almost from
the first. Mrs. SPARZA twice haled her husband to the New Jersey avenue court
for abusing her. She finally left him and went to live with her cousin, Miss
MALFREDO, 33, at 448 Bradford street, a few doors away.
BLAMED HIS WIFE
Saturday evening SPARZA received a letter from the immigration authorities
ordering him to report at Ellis Island today for deportation as an
undesirable. Burning with rage and resentment, SPARZA immediately attributed
his troubles to his wife and went looking for her.
He found her with Miss MALFREDO at the home of her brother, Cafaldo DELACCIO,
at 241 New Jersey avenue, with the latter's wife, Mary.
He entered, flourishing a knife with an eight-inch blade, and finally
cornered his wife in one room of the apartment and slashed her time after
time with the knife. He then stabbed her twice, once in the back and once in
the left breast, piercing her lung. Miss MALFREDO went to her cousin's aid
and was stabbed in the back. The knife blade broke off in her body.
FLED FROM SCENE
DELACCIO and his wife tried to hold SPARZA, but he broke away and fled from
the house. Someone notified the Miller avenue station and Detectives Charles
FRANK and Albert BERON were sent to the scene. Ambulance Surgeons ROTHBERG
and CUTTER arrived at the same time from Trinity Hospital.
The two doctors immediately rushed the injured women to the hospital. Both
were unable to talk to the detectives and both DELACCIO and his wife were
much too excited to talk coherently for some time. It was therefore not until
2 A. M. Sunday morning that the detectives could find out just what had
happened. They immediately went searching for SPARZA. They found him in his
apartment, all the doors and windows locked and sealed, with gas pouring from
seven wide open jets.
SPARZA left no note, but on the table near his body they found the letter and
envelope from Ellis Island that had caused him to go berserk.
WORKLESS MAN HANGS SELF TOP RIVER TREE
Robert PERPES, 55, of 2905 199th street, Bayside West, was found hanging from
the limb of a tree along the waterfront at North Beach yesterday. Detectives
of Astoria station who investigated learned from his wife that recently he
had been despondent over his inability to get work.
Transcribed for the Brooklyn Information pages by Mary Davis
Researching HAAS, DUGGAN, GOETZ & DAVIS
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