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Murder in the Evening World, 1900 & 1920

Murder of Elizabeth Man and Physician Traced to Newark Gang Fight

Item

Title
Murder of Elizabeth Man and Physician Traced to Newark Gang Fight
Source
Evening World
Date
27-Mar-20
page
2
Identifier
Image 2 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), March 27, 1920, (Final Edition) | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
Crime
Murder
Subject
Physician, brother
Gender of alleged offender
Male alleged murderer
Gender of alleged victim
Male alleged victims
Stage of the Legal System
Extralegal
Length of story
121 words
Description
The man who was stabbed to death with Dr. Vincent J. Campisi, a successful Brooklyn physician, early Thursday evening in a dingy room at No. 496 Lorimer Street, was today identified as Lorenzo Sarullo, twenty nine years old, a mason's helper of No. 257 Fourth Street, Elizabeth, N.J. The identification was made from a photograph bhy the dead man's brother, Vincenzo Sarullo, of No. 621 Third Avenue , Elizabeth. Vincenzo said that he last saw his brother March 16. Lorenzo was in the habit of going out for a month at a time on work, and his absence has occasioned no alarm. Accompanied by Detectives Van Fillume and De Guida of the Brooklyn force, Vincenzo came to New York late this afternoon to claim the body of his brother. [...]