West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA (Arctic) (Natick) (Phenix) (Crompton)
1914 - WEST WARWICK HAS MYSTERY IN KILLING. Italian Dies from Shooting, Cousin Arrested Held for Grand Jury. NO QUARREL IS HEARD.

WEST WARWICK, Oct. 5 - Giovanni di Chistofero, a mill weaver, was fatally shot yesterday ad his cousin, Michele di Ciumino as arrested later in Natick by Chief of Police Andrews.

He waived examination before Judge Felix Herbert at a special sesion of the District Court on a charge of manslaughter and was bound over to the grand jury. Bail was fixex at $2000.

A broken watch which was found in the bedroom is believed by police to have been the cause of the quarrel which led to the shooting.

The circumstances leading to the death of Cristofero are unknown. Relatives and intimate friends of both men say that they never quarreled and were on the best of terms.

Di Cristofero and Ciumino, cousins, boarded with their uncle, Michel Baradi, on the West Warwick side of Natick. They occupied a room on the third floor, together with Angelo Petraca.

All three young men were in their room during the morning; about 11 o'clock Petraca went to Westcott. According to members of the Baradi family, who live on the secnond floor, there was no noise or other evidence to indicate that the men upstairs were having any difficulty.

Mr. Baradi says that he heard a shot fired and almost immediately he saw Di Cristoforo and Ciummo coming down the stairs together. There was nothing about the boys to attract attention, and Baradi says he paid no attention to them.

They went out on the veranda from the second floor, where Di Cristoforo lay down on a couch and died almost immediately. Then Ciummo quietly slipped out of the house.

The body was discovered a short time later by a member of the household and Dr. H. Barton Bryer of Natick was called and found the boy dead. He notified Medical Examiner Christie of Riverpoint, who, after viewing the body, offered it turned over to Gorman & Lancellotta for removal to P. T. McMahon's undertaking rooms where an autopsy will be performed today.

When the physicians went into the bedroom previously occupied by the men they found a .38 calibre revolver lying on the floor. On the opposite side of the room was found an empty shell. The gun belonged to Petrarca, one of the occupants of the room, who was absent at the time of the shooting.

In the room was a trunk owned by Petrarca. This had been broken open and the contents strewn about the floor. In the bottom of the trunk were four bullets which may have been taken from the revolver.

The Evening Times
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
October 5, 1914

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