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Murder in the Evening World, 1900 & 1920

Police Seek 'J. Falcone' Whose Name Was Found on Coat in Room

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Title
Police Seek 'J. Falcone' Whose Name Was Found on Coat in Room
Source
Evening World
Date
26-Mar-20
page
1
Identifier
Image 1 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), March 26, 1920, (Final Edition) | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
Crime
Murder
Subject
Double murder, doctor
Gender of alleged offender
Male alleged murderer
Gender of alleged victim
Male alleged victims
Law enforcement involved
Police
Stage of the Legal System
Extralegal
Length of story
95 words
Description
Brooklyn detectives, under the personal direction of Capt. John Coughlin, worked all of tofay without solving the mystery surrounding the double murder early last evening of Dr. Vincent J. Campisi, a successful physician of No.46 Stagg Street, and an unidentified Italian. The physician was stabbed to death and life had been choked out of the unidentified man. The bodies were not cold when they were discovered in a dingy back room in a three story frame lodging house at No. 496 Lorimer Street, to which the doctor had been summoned a few minutes before. [...]
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